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The Barista Operations Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Manual handling injuries
- Slips and falls
- Hot liquid spills
- 2. Taking order
- Misunderstandings leading to incorrect orders
- Fatigue due to prolonged standing
- 3. Grinding coffee
- Injury from machine
- Inhalation of coffee dust
- 4. Tamping coffee
- Repetitive strain injury
- Slips and Falls
- 5. Pre-heating cups
- Burns from hot water/steam
- Dropping and breaking cups (slip hazard)
- 6. Purging group head
- Raw Material ingestion/inhalation
- Burns from steam
- 7. Fix portafilter in group head
- Rapid heat transfer causing burns
- damage to equipment
- 8. Brewing espresso
- Electric shock
- Burns from hot liquid
- Equipment malfunction
- 9. Steaming milk
- Scalds from hot milk
- Steam burns
- Manual handling injuries
- 10. Pouring milk into espresso
- Burns from hot liquids
- Drops/spills leading to slip hazard
- 11. Serving drink to customer
- Burns from spilled liquids
- Trips/falls while carrying drinks
- 12. Cleaning up work area
- Exposure to chemicals
- Slips and falls on wet surfaces
- 13. Dealing with difficult customers
- Stress
- Verbal or physical abuse
- 14. Restocking supplies
- Heavy lifting
- Cuts or abrasions from packaging
- 15. Shutting down equipment
- Electric shock
- Burns from residual heat
- 16. End of day clean-up
- Exposure to chemicals
- Cuts/abrasions
- 17. Waste disposal
- Heavy lifting
- Exposure to waste product
- Puncture wounds
- 18. Equipment maintenance
- Burns from residual heat
- Electric shock
- 19. Training new staff
- Miscommunication leading to injury
- Fatigue from overwork
- 20. Reviewing workplace safety procedures
- Failure to comprehend necessary safety information
- Stress from overwork