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The Cave-In Rescue Plan Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Unstable terrain
- lack of hazard awareness
- 2. Equipment check
- Faulty equipment
- inadequate personal protective equipment
- 3. Entering site
- Unsafe access/egress
- potential for unmarked hazards
- 4. Initial assessment
- Incorrect assessment
- overlooked risks
- 5. Rescue planning
- Insufficient rescue planning
- miscommunication among team
- 6. Rescue implementation
- Cave-in during implementation
- unsafe maneuvers
- 7. Victim extraction
- Inadequate victim stabilisation
- further injury to victim
- 8. Transport of victim
- Incorrect handling procedures
- increased victim injury
- 9. Evacuating from site
- Secondary cave-ins
- unstable terrain
- falling objects
- 10. Debriefing and reporting
- Omitting important details
- incorrect incident documentation
- 11. Pack up equipment
- Improper storage
- damage to equipment
- 12. Leave site
- Accidents due to fatigue
- accidents due to distraction
- 13. Post-rescue review
- Insufficient review planning
- lack of thoroughness in feedback
- 14. Training improvements
- Neglect of deficiencies highlighted during review
- limited resources for training
- 15. Plans for recurring emergencies
- Inadequate plans for future emergencies
- lack of updating to protocols