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The Brick And Block Laying Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Incorrect lifting techniques
- Slip and falls
- 2. Delivery of Material
- Traffic incidents
- Overloading
- 3. Setting Out
- Falling from heights
- Exposure to sun
- 4. Mixing Mortar
- Dust inhalation
- Inadequate PPE usage
- 5. Spreading Mortar
- Unprotected edges
- Overreaching
- 6. Placing Bricks/BLOCKS
- Hand injuries
- Repetitive strain injury
- 7. Checking Alignment
- Work at height
- Overreaching
- 8. Jointing and Pointing
- Manual handling
- Dust inhalation
- 9. Cleaning up
- Slips
- trips and falls
- Sharp objects
- 10. Load and Unload Materials
- Manual handling
- Slips and falls
- 11. Establish Work Area Protection
- Traffic incidents
- Incorrect PPE
- 12. Operate Brick/Block Saw
- Noise exposure
- Flying debris
- 13. Use of Mobile Plant
- Collision
- Falls from plant
- 14. Erect and work from scaffold
- Falls from heights
- Structural collapse
- 15. Maintain and handle tools
- Incorrect use
- Tool malfunction
- 16. Disposal of Waste Material
- Manual handling
- Hazardous material exposure
- 17. Dismantling and Removing Structures
- Fall of objects
- Instability during removal
- 18. Carry out Routine Operational Checks
- Machinery malfunction
- Injury due to incorrect operation
- 19. Packaging and Transporting Waste Material
- Manual handling
- Hazardous material exposure
- 20. Final Site Clean-up
- Slips
- trips and falls
- Sharp objects