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The Softwood Processing Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Slipping
- chemical hazards
- 2. Loading logs
- Struck by moving object
- muscle strain
- 3. Debarking process
- UA equipment
- noise pollution
- 4. Sawing logs
- Cutting injuries
- flying debris
- 5. Edging and trimming
- Machinery entanglement
- airborne sawdust
- 6. Drying lumber
- Overheating
- fire risks
- 7. Grading lumber
- Heavy lifting
- repetitive motion injury
- 8. Planning & profiling
- Machinery entanglement
- airborne sawdust
- 9. Preservation treating
- Chemical exposure
- slipping on wet surface
- 10. Packaging
- Sharp objects
- straining injuries
- 11. Stacking
- Falling objects
- heavy lifting
- 12. Unloading
- Transport hazard
- falling objects
- 13. Storage
- Falling objects
- tripping over
- 14. Cleanup
- Chemical hazards
- slipping and tripping
- 15. Emergency procedures
- Inadequate training
- panic risk
- 16. Equipment maintenance
- Electrical hazards
- fluid leaks
- 17. Waste disposal
- Chemical hazards
- sharp objects
- 18. Review safety process
- Inadequate training
- missed hazards
- 19. Report, recording and follow up
- Repetitive strains
- neglect of procedures
- 20. Closing down operation
- Slipping
- tripping over clutter