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The Securing Crime Scenes Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Trip hazards from equipment
- Exposure to biohazards
- 2. Arrival on scene
- Traffic risks
- Stress and trauma exposure
- 3. Initial Safety Assessment
- Missing potential dangers
- Incorrect usage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- 4. Setting up the perimeter
- Struck by moving objects
- Manual handling injuries
- 5. Documentation of scene
- Ergonomic injuries from prolonged writing or typing
- Eye strain
- 6. Scene Photography
- Slips
- trips and falls while moving
- Eye damage from flash
- 7. Evidence identification
- Exposure to harmful substances
- Sharp object injuries
- 8. Evidence collection
- Biohazard contamination
- Mental stress from handling disturbing items
- 9. Packaging of evidence
- Cuts from sharp objects
- Contact with hazardous material
- 10. Crime scene clean-up
- Contact with bio-hazardous materials
- Illness from chemicals
- 11. Transporting of evidence
- Traffic incidents
- Direct contact with harmful items
- 12. Debriefing
- Emotional distress
- 13. Scene handover
- Miscommunication leading to errors
- 14. Reporting
- Strenuous workload resulting in fatigue
- 15. Follow-ups & Court Appearances
- High stress levels
- Potential for verbal/physical assault
- 16. After-action review
- Emotional stress from recall of incident
- 17. Equipment clean-up and maintenance
- Contact with harmful residues
- Manual handling injuries
- 18. Training on updates
- Inadequate understanding leading to errors
- 19. Regular mental health check-ups
- Ignored symptoms leading to serious illness
- 20. Updating protocol as required
- Stagnation leading to outdated methods