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The Silica Dust Exposure Prevention Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Inadequate training
- Equipment malfunction
- 2. Material Handling
- Manual handling injuries
- Aerosols inhalation
- 3. Using hand tools
- Noise
- Vibration
- Airborne silica dust
- 4. Cutting materials
- Sharp implements
- Airborne silica dust
- 5. Grinding materials
- Heat
- Sparks
- Airborne silica dust
- 6. Sweeping
- Mundane task hazards
- Airborne silica dust
- 7. Bag opening and Emptying
- Airborne silica dust
- Manual handling injuries
- 8. Wet Drilling
- Electric shock
- Slips
- trips and falls
- Airborne silica dust
- 9. Cleaning up
- Disposal of hazardous material
- Slips
- trips and falls
- 10. Maintenance
- Equipment malfunction
- Exposed moving parts
- Chemicals exposure
- 11. Measuring and marking
- Sharp implements
- Distractions
- 12. Installing components
- Working at heights
- Manual handling injuries
- 13. Inspecting work
- Slips
- trips and falls
- Physical strain
- 14. Packing and Loading
- Manual handling injuries
- Dropping materials
- 15. Site Clean-Up
- Chemical exposure
- slips
- trips and falls
- Sharp objects
- 16. Documentation/ Reporting
- Ergonomic hazards
- stress from deadlines
- 17. Debriefing
- Verbal abuse
- Slips
- trips and falls
- 18. Equipment Storage
- Manual handling injuries
- Tripping over equipment
- 19. Decommissioning
- Chemical exposure
- Equipment malfunction
- 20. Evaluation
- Stress from performance evaluations
- Physical strain due to extended hours