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The Applying Shrink Wrap Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Machinery malfunction
- Slips
- trips and falls
- 2. Equipment Check
- Faulty equipment
- Incorrect Load
- 3. Loading Roll
- Manual Handling Injuries
- Crushing injury
- 4. Shrink Wrapping Process
- Burns from heat gun
- Inhalation of fumes
- 5. Moving Wrapped Pallet
- Manual Handling injuries
- Collision with objects
- 6. Unloading pallet
- Fall from heights
- Struck by falling object
- 7. Storing the pallet
- Collapse of stacks
- Struck by moving vehicle
- 8. Maintenance of Wrap Machine
- Electrical hazards
- Caught in machinery
- 9. Checking final product
- Cutting injuries
- Strains and sprains
- 10. Clean up
- Exposure to harmful substances
- Injury from sharp objects
- 11. Waste Disposal
- Exposure to hazardous waste
- Manual handling injuries
- 12. Machine shutdown
- Caught in machinery
- Electrical hazards
- 13. End-of-shift procedure
- Fatigue
- Slips
- Trips and Falls
- 14. Emergency Procedures
- Inadequate training
- failure to evacuate
- 15. Regular Inspection
- Machinery wear and tear
- overlooked maintenance
- 16. Training and induction
- Misunderstanding procedures
- overlooking safety practices
- 17. Document Control
- Lost documents
- outdated procedures
- 18. Equipment Inspection
- Wear and tear
- malfunctioning equipment
- 19. Company Communication
- Lack of communication
- misinformation
- 20. Periodic Auditing
- Non-compliance
- overlooked risks