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The Aquaculture Operations Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Trips/falls
- electrical shocks from equipment
- cuts from sharp utensils
- 2. Water Treatment
- Exposure to chemicals
- slips on wet surfaces
- 3. Stock Introduction
- Stress from handling
- possible injurious due to fish weight
- 4. Feeding
- Allergies to feed
- lifting heavy sacks of feed
- slips on spilled feed
- 5. Health Monitoring
- Infections from sick fish
- stress from handling fish
- 6. Cleaning Tanks
- Falls into tanks
- exposure to waste or chemicals
- 7. Maintenance Work
- Machinery malfunctions
- slips on oil spills
- 8. Harvesting
- Cuts from fish scales or knives
- heavy lifting injuries
- 9. Packaging
- Repetitive strain injuries from packing
- cuts from packaging materials
- 10. Waste Disposal
- Exposure to harmful waste
- heavy lifting injuries
- 11. Emergency Procedures
- Errors in procedure
- panic during emergency
- 12. Transporting Fish
- Road accidents
- stress or injury from handling fish
- 13. Record Keeping
- Eye strain from screens
- repetitive strain injuries from typing
- 14. Quality Assurance Checks
- Stress from responsibility
- errors in checks
- 15. End of Shift Cleanup
- Fatigue leading to errors or accidents
- exposure to cleaning chemicals
- 16. Equipment Storage
- Heavy lifting injuries
- trips/falls over improperly stored equipment
- 17. Staff Training
- Misunderstandings leading to errors or accidents
- stress from learning new things
- 18. Risk Assessments
- Stress from responsibility
- overlooking a potential hazard
- 19. Feed Storage
- Spoilage leading to sick fish
- heavy lifting injury
- 20. Vehicle Maintenance
- Injury from tools
- slips on oil spills