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The Snow Clearance From Pathways Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Slips
- trips and falls
- High wind exposure
- Exposure to cold temperatures
- 2. Job planning
- Incorrect job specification
- Lack of experience or training
- 3. Equipment check
- Faulty equipment
- Incorrect use of equipment
- 4. Safety barriers setup
- Hit by moving vehicle
- Tripping over barrier
- 5. Initial snow clearance
- Exposure to cold
- Slipping on snow or ice
- Over-exertion/Heart attack
- Inadequate snow removal
- 6. Break up of compacted snow
- Risk of injury from tools
- Strains from lifting
- 7. Applying de-icer
- Mishandling chemicals
- Re-freezing creating slippery condition
- 8. Tidying pathway
- Musculoskeletal injuries from manual handling
- contact with sharp or jagged objects
- 9. Waste removal
- Struck by moving vehicles
- Incorrect lifting methods leading to injury
- 10. Final inspection
- Inadequate inspection leading to slips
- fall
- 11. Equipment clean-up
- Contact with chemicals
- Risk of cuts from cleaning sharp edges
- 12. Reporting
- Repetitive stress injuries from computer work
- Eye fatigue from screen usage
- 13. Review process
- Paper cuts
- Repetitive stress injuries
- 14. Emergency response
- Mental stress
- Physical injury
- 15. End of shift procedure
- Fatigue
- rush to finish leading to mistakes or accidents