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The Self-Loading Concrete Mixer Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Potential slip
- trip and fall hazards
- manual handling injuries
- 2. Load materials into mixer
- Finger/hand injuries
- eye injury from splashing cement
- 3. Operate mixer
- Machine entanglement
- noise exposure
- rotating parts can catch clothing or limbs
- 4. Pour concrete material into pit
- Back strain from heavy lifting
- potential for wet-surface slips
- 5. Maintain and repair mixer
- Maintenance-related injuries
- sudden machine start-up
- 6. Clean up site
- Exposure to cement dust
- eye injury from flying debris
- slips
- trips and falls due to messy area
- 7. Dealing with waste material
- Hazardous chemical exposure
- sharp object hazards
- 8. Packing away equipment
- Manual handling injuries
- slip
- trip
- and fall hazards
- 9. Site assessment
- Uneven ground
- exposed rebar
- other construction site hazards
- 10. Finishing work
- Exposure to cement dust
- overuse or repetitive motion injuries
- 11. Disposal of waste
- Cutting or piercing injuries from sharp objects
- manual handling injuries
- 12. Documenting the job
- Sedentary work leading to posture-related musculoskeletal disorders
- 13. Ongoing communication & consultation
- Overuse of voice
- tension due to difficult conversations
- 14. Movements around the worksite
- Slip
- trip and fall hazards due to unexpected obstacles
- 15. Shut down & secure site
- Remnant construction materials posing slip
- trip
- and fall hazards
- 16. Incident handling
- Potential for further injury during incident response
- 17. Training new staff
- Inexperience leading to increased accidents or near misses
- 18. Working at height (if required)
- Falls from heights
- fear of heights causing dizziness/nausea
- 19. Checking finished work
- Repeated bending or stooping
- the potential for overlooked safety hazards
- 20. Feedback & revision of safe work procedure
- Overlooking important feedback
- ignoring revision requirement can lead to outdated practices