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The Using Bakery Appliances Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Slippery floors
- heavy lifting
- 2. Mixing ingredients
- Hand injuries due to machinery
- allergic reactions
- 3. Oven preheating
- Burns and fire hazards
- 4. Dough handling
- Repetitive stress injury
- cuts
- 5. Baking
- Machinery operation hazards
- burns
- 6. Cooling
- Thermal burns from hot bakery items
- slips due to condensation
- 7. Packaging
- Ergonomic stresses
- hand injuries
- exposure to hot surfaces
- 8. Cleaning
- Exposure to cleaning chemicals
- slips
- electrical hazards if equipment not isolated correctly
- 9. Maintenance
- Electrical hazards
- caught/crush injuries
- 10. Waste disposal
- Manual handling risks
- cuts from broken or sharp objects
- 11. Delivery
- Manual handling risks
- vehicular accidents
- 12. Customer service
- Verbal abuse or violent confrontations
- ergonomic stresses
- 13. Machine reloading
- Caught-in/between hazards
- lifting heavy objects
- 14. Temperature control checking
- Burns
- cooling mishaps leading to harmful bacteria build-up in food
- 15. Training new staff
- Mistakes leading to injury
- fatigue
- mental stress
- 16. Weekly stock check
- Heavy lifting
- trips and falls
- dust inhalation
- 17. Emergency procedures
- Panic inducing injuries
- fire hazards
- 18. Sanitation check
- Exposure to harmful bacteria
- skin irritation from cleaning solutions
- 19. Shift rotation
- Fatigue resulting in mistakes
- lack of communication
- 20. Quality control review
- Stress
- potential for mistakes leading to customer dissatisfaction or mishandling of ingredients