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The Tightening Lug Nuts Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Poor equipment maintenance
- Inadequate training
- 2. Setting up workspace
- Slip
- trip or fall
- Incorrect manual handling
- 3. Selection of tools
- Use of inappropriate tool
- Lack of tool familiarity
- 4. Positioning vehicle
- Recognising unstable surfaces
- Struck by moving vehicles
- 5. Jacking up the vehicle
- Equipment failure
- Improper use of jack
- 6. Selecting the correct socket
- Use of wrong sized sockets
- Poor lighting conditions
- 7. Removing wheel nuts
- Flying debris
- Loss of grip (slipping)
- 8. Attached lug nuts tightening
- Prolonged or improper use of tools
- Manual handling injury
- 9. Final check of tightened lug nuts
- Faulty equipment malfunction
- Not identifying loose nuts
- 10. Lowering of vehicle
- Inappropriate placing of jacks
- Equipment failure
- 11. Clearing workspace
- Debris on floor causing slips
- trips or falls
- Not properly disposing sharp items
- 12. Completion and reporting
- Incomplete documentation
- Failing to report identified risks