Nathan Crutchfield: This is Nathan Crutchfield. In this segment we will be discussing the Job Hazard Analysis Process in order to complete The Job Hazard Analysis you should be thinking in terms of a process where you have a point of beginning, gathering all the information about the job and moving on to the standard operating procedures that will incorporate all the findings of the job hazard analysis.
The materials presented are from Job Hazard Analysis by James Roughton and Nathan Crutchfield. Published by Butterworth-Heinemann.
James: The Job Hazard Analysis has a number of Pros as well as Cons. It is an essential safety management too use to consistently and correctly. It will increase you ability to build an inventory or portfolio of hazards and risk associate with various jobs within your organization and being performed by your employees. It also helps you develop a mental map that will aide you in improving your skills in the development of the in relationships between jobs, task and the dynamics the organization.
As you build a portfolio of job hazard analysis, you can improve your safety toolbox and the skills that will increase your effect in this and in implementing your programs in the face of what we are now seeing as constant organizational change. It provides you a basic methodology and structure to recognize hazards as well as the elements of personal behavioral choices either associate with each job.
On the Cons side, this will require commitment and for you to break the habit of working just toward programs and not think in terms of a process. Therefore we’ll require time and budget. It will require patience. We’re not developing a product; we are trying to develop a process in which you can clearly define all the elements of risk and a hazard that go into the various jobs and task that are completed by your organization on a day-to-day basis.
And last but not the least, you may find out things you really did want to find out about as we see it the job hazard analysis process requires a number of steps. The first step is to pull together all the information possible about the job, its task and steps that are required to complete the actions for successful job. We will be using the fishbone or cause and effect diagram to pull this information together. The second part is go a pre-hazard assessment and get a field for what the basic risk can hazards are. We’ll be developing steps and task. Look at the environment. Look at tools equipment and materials and a few other aspects of the job.
The next face is to prioritize the jobs and the elements of the jobs and the elements of the jobs by their potential risk severity. When that’s completed we determined the modifications or controls using the hierarchy of controls and then we will move in to the actual development of the job hazard analysis and from the job hazards analysis develop standard operating procedures that incorporate safety right into the training and management of the job itself.
Nathan Crutchfield: We will continue the process and our future discussions and work our way through job hazard analysis. A Guide for Voluntary Compliance and Beyond.
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