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The Accessing High Shelves With Pulleys Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Slipping
- tripping on tools/materials
- incorrect manual handling
- 2. Assessing Area
- Falling from heights
- objects falling onto persons below
- 3. Selecting Appropriate Pulley
- Risk of selecting inappropriate equipment
- causing damage or injury
- 4. Set Up Pulley System
- Crushing fingers
- hand injuries
- falling objects
- 5. Using the Pulley System
- Strains and sprains from overexertion
- falling objects
- 6. Accessing High Shelves
- Risks of falling from height
- overhead impacts
- 7. Retrieving Items From Height
- Muscular strains from incorrect lifting
- dropped items hitting personnel
- 8. Lowering Items to Ground
- Objects slipping from pulley
- potential for dropped objects
- 9. Stowing Pulley Equipment
- Incorrect storage
- manual handling issues
- trip hazards
- 10. Review Of Task
- Ignored safety procedures
- unobserved existing hazards
- 11. Maintenance of Pulley System
- Injury during maintenance
- inadequate maintenance leading to failure of system
- 12. Emergency Procedures
- Inadequate knowledge of emergency procedures
- panic causing injuries
- 13. Education and Training
- Inadequate training leading to misuse
- accidents due to ignorance of procedures
- 14. Regular Inspection
- Falls during inspection
- missing potentially dangerous wear and tear
- 15. Reporting and Documentation
- Inadequate hazard reporting
- injury due to repeated issues
- 16. Termination of Task
- Residual hazards left unattended
- manual handling issues during cleanup
- 17. Post-task Review
- Missed injuries or incidents
- lack of follow up on identified hazards
- 18. Health Checkups
- Risks missed due current health status ignorance
- muscle strain
- 19. Cleansing and Sanitising
- Contact with unhygienic surfaces leading to illness
- inappropriate use of cleaning chemicals causing skin irritation or respiratory problems
- 20. Disposal of Waste
- improper disposal causing tripping hazards
- exposure to harmful substances