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The Borehole Sampling Operations Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Slips
- trips and falls
- exposure to hazardous materials
- 2. Transport of drilling equipment
- Vehicle accidents
- manual handling injuries
- 3. Setting up the drilling area
- Falling objects
- noise hazards
- 4. Drilling operations
- Contact with moving machinery
- dust inhalation
- 5. Borehole sampling
- Falls from height
- manual handling injuries
- 6. Sample analysis
- Exposure to hazardous chemicals
- eye injuries
- 7. Breakdown & clean up
- Manual handling injuries
- exposure to hazardous materials
- 8. Waste disposal
- Contact with sharps
- exposure to biological hazards
- 9. Documentation & reporting
- Repetitive strain injuries
- mental stress
- 10. Equipment storage
- Trips and falls
- manual handling injuries
- 11. Maintenance and inspections
- Contact with moving machinery
- electrical hazards
- 12. Emergency procedures
- Failure to respond adequately to emergencies
- panic and confusion
- 13. Training
- Inadequate training leading to improper handling of equipment or incorrect procedures
- 14. Personal protective equipment (PPE) use
- Improper use of PPE
- failure to wear PPE
- 15. Health surveillance
- Delayed identification of health issues
- failure to properly monitor health
- 16. Audit and review of procedures
- Inadequate audits leading to overlooked safety risks
- failure to update procedures
- 17. Measuring and monitoring
- Inaccurate measurement or monitoring data
- lack of proper tracking
- 18. Communication
- Miscommunication resulting in exposure to hazards
- failure to report incidents
- 19. Leadership and culture
- Lack of commitment from leadership
- poor safety culture
- 20. Contractor management
- Inadequate supervision of contractors
- contractors ignoring safety protocols