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The Sewage Clean-Up Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Hazardous substances
- Manual handling injuries
- 2. Segregation of work zone
- Slip
- trip and fall hazards
- Electrical hazards
- 3. Identification of assets
- Infection from sewage
- Physical strain
- 4. Equipment check
- Malfunctioning equipment causing injury
- Electrical hazards
- 5. Safety gear check
- Insufficient PPE
- Extreme weather conditions
- 6. Material Handling
- Manual handling injuries
- Damage to property
- 7. Clearing blockages
- Machinery entanglement
- Exposure to harmful chemicals
- 8. Sewage clean-up
- Exposure to harmful bacteria
- Catastrophic failure of equipment
- 9. Decontamination
- Chemical spill
- Insufficient or improper cleaning
- 10. Disposal of waste
- Improper waste disposal
- Infections from sewage
- 11. Sanitisation of area
- Inadequate sanitisation
- Chemical spills and reactions
- 12. Check for residual contamination
- Inadequate checking procedures
- Chemical exposure
- 13. Return of equipment
- Machinery malfunction
- Incorrect storage
- 14. Documentation of work
- Information security risk
- Loss of paperwork
- 15. End of shift/rest breaks
- Fatigue
- Insufficient rest periods
- 16. Reporting and monitoring
- Inaccurate reporting
- Lack of follow-up
- 17. Incident management and response
- Inadequate incident response
- Lack of first aid facilities
- 18. Emergency evacuation procedure
- Poorly executed evacuation
- Lack of awareness of evacuation routes
- 19. Review of procedures
- Outdated procedures
- Non-compliance to procedures
- 20. Continuous improvement
- Stagnant procedures
- Inefficient workflows