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The Adjusting Storage Area Lighting Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Tripping over cords or items
- Electrical shock from faulty lighting
- 2. Assessment of current lighting
- Eye strain
- Falling objects if situated above
- 3. Identifying need for adjustment
- Risk of poor decision due to inadequate light test equipment
- wrong procedure use risk
- 4. Securing area for work
- Risk of tripping
- Colliding with passing personnel
- 5. Fetching adjustment tools and necessary aid
- Injury from improper handling of tools
- risk of tool malfunction
- 6. Ladder setup and climb
- Fall from height
- Slipping off the ladder
- dropping tools
- 7. Adjusting lighting fixtures
- Electrical shock
- dislodging heavy object if not careful
- 8. Verifying desired result
- Eye strain
- Incorrect assessment if light meter is faulty
- 9. Further Adjustment if necessary
- Repeated exposure to initial hazards
- Additional time in unsafe position
- 10. Descending ladder and dismantle
- Falling during descent
- injury from wrongly dismantling ladder
- 11. Clean up of work area
- Trip over leftover tools/items
- Cuts from sharp edges of tools
- 12. Testing of adjusted lighting
- Electric shock
- experiencing sudden brightness changes
- 13. Validation of work completed
- Unsatisfactory results leading to repeat of steps and exposure to associated risks
- 14. Storage of tools and sealing off work area
- Injury from improper storage of tools
- Risk of leaving unsealed dangerous work area
- 15. Final clean up and departure from site
- Tripping over leftover items
- Missing to spot another potential hazard due to rush or fatigue