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The Upholstering Work With Staple Guns Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Improper setup
- Lack of training
- 2. Material Handling
- Manual handling injuries
- Cuts from sharp objects
- 3. Equipment Setup
- Electric shock
- Entrapment in moving parts
- 4. Upholstering Activities
- Noise exposure
- Staple gun malfunctions
- Exposure to dust particles
- 5. Inspection and Quality Control
- Eye strains
- Improper judgment due to fatigue
- 6. General Machine Cleaning
- Machinery entanglement
- Chemical exposure
- 7. Waste Disposal
- Manual handling injuries
- Cuts from sharp objects
- 8. Routine Machine Maintenance
- Machinery entrapment
- Electric shock
- 9. Emergency Procedures
- Insufficient knowledge on procedures
- Panic behaviour
- 10. Shutdown and storage
- Incorrect procedures
- Slips
- trips and falls
- 11. Tool Handover
- Mistaken identity of tools
- Miscommunication
- 12. Safety Checks
- Inadequate checks
- Ignorance of safety measures
- 13. Job Completion Tasks
- Fatigue
- Rushed completion of tasks
- 14. Personal Protective Equipment usage
- Non-compliance
- Improper use or fit
- 15. Potential Fire Handling
- Lack of awareness
- Improper response
- 16. Shift change Communication
- Miscommunication
- Ignorance of communicated safety measures
- 17. Post-Work Cleaning
- Exposure to harmful cleaning substances
- Injury from cleaning tools
- 18. Document Completion and Submission
- Incorrect data interpretation/entry
- 19. Post Work Team Debrief
- Miscommunication
- Non-compliance to debrief outlines
- 20. Equipment Check Out/In
- Machinery entanglement
- Incorrect handling of equipment