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Key Features:
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• Regulatory Compliance: Built to align with Australia’s WHS legislation and Codes of Practice, these templates include guidance notes and reference links to help you stay compliant.
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The Risk Of Minor Cuts And Abrasions Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Incorrect equipment choice
- Improper PPE usage
- 2. Assess work area
- Slips
- trips and falls
- Contact with sharp surfaces
- 3. Set up work space
- Electrical hazards
- Inadequate furniture set-up
- 4. Gather tools
- Misplacement of tools
- Using faulty tools
- 5. Handling materials
- Rough/Sharp edges
- Unfamiliarity with material handling
- 6. Create action plan
- Mistakes in planning
- Overlooking steps
- 7. Execute tasks
- Fast-paced work
- Lack of skill/experience
- 8. Usage of equipment
- Minimal experience
- Equipment malfunction
- 9. Cleaning work space
- Exposure to cleaning chemicals
- Sharp Object exposure
- 10. Load/Unload materials
- Heavy lifting
- Inadequately secured load
- 11. Faulty tool disposal
- Improper disposal systems
- Re-using faulty tools
- 12. Wear/Take off PPE
- Incorrect wearing/taking off of PPE
- PPE damages
- 13. Involve in machine operation
- Unexercise caution
- Lack of experience
- 14. Breakdown and maintain machines
- Inexperience
- Insufficient training
- 15. Completion report
- Overwork
- Time pressure
- 16. Debriefing
- Miscommunication
- Ambiguity on roles
- 17. Evaluation of tasks
- Overestimation/underestimation
- Lack of transparency
- 18. Downtime management
- Overexertion
- Fatigue
- 19. Prevention measures training
- Lack of engagement
- Dilution of information
- 20. Handover process
- Incomplete handover
- Information omission