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The Dealing With Dust Generation And Control Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Dust inhalation
- skin irritation from dust
- 2. Site setup
- Slips
- trips and falls from dust
- hazard to vision from dust clouds
- 3. Mobilise equipment
- Damage to equipment from dust
- injuries due to poor visibility in dust clouds
- 4. Dust generation process start
- Dust exposure to workers
- increased risk of fires or explosions due to dust ignition
- 5. Dust control implementation
- Chemical hazards from dust suppressants
- incomplete protection leading to dust exposure
- 6. Maintenance of dust control measures
- Inadequate maintenance leading to failure of dust control measures
- direct contact with hazardous materials during maintenance
- 7. Regular Monitoring
- Ineffective monitoring and control
- health risks from prolonged dust exposure
- 8. Equipment checks
- Malfunctioning equipment leading to excessive dust creation
- personal injury during inspection
- 9. Training of staff
- Lack of information leading to improper handling
- lack of appropriate training leading to risk of exposure
- 10. Dust disposal
- Hazardous waste management
- spread of edible dust to nearby environment
- 11. De-brief and clean up
- Skin and eye contamination during cleaning
- inadequate clean-up leading to dust residue
- 12. Documentation and reporting
- Missed or incorrect hazard reporting
- ineffective communication between team members
- 13. Emergency Procedures
- Ineffective response to dust-related incidents
- potential for escalation if not managed properly
- 14. Contingency plan
- Lack of preparation causing chaos and uncontrolled risks during unforeseen events
- 15. Review and update procedures
- Underestimation of dust-related risks
- outdated or ineffective procedures not being updated
- 16. Post-work health checkups
- Inadequate medical services
- potential for long-term health issues if dust-related issues are undealt with
- 17. Decommissioning of dust control measures
- Incomplete decommission leading to residual hazards
- risk of injury during disassembly process
- 18. Final clean up
- Improper disposal leading to environmental contamination
- potential for physical harm during clean-up process
- 19. De-mobilising equipment
- Hazards during dismantling
- potential for accidents during transport due to dust build-up on equipment
- 20. Final report
- Data inaccuracies in reports
- failure to recognise and mitigate future risks