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The Trimming Hedges Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Tripping over equipment
- Exposure to harmful substances
- 2. Equipment Check
- Failure of equipment
- Cuts from sharp objects
- 3. Setting up work area
- Falling objects
- Struck by moving vehicles
- 4. Trimming lower branches
- Eye injury from fragments
- Cuts and scratches
- 5. Trimming higher branches
- Fall from height
- Overhead power lines
- 6. Trimming around obstacles
- Collision with obstacles
- Muscular strain
- 7. Clearing trimmed hedges
- Sharp objects
- Manual handling injuries
- 8. Disposing waste material
- Exposure to harmful substances
- Manual handling injuries
- 9. Equipment cleaning
- Contact with harmful chemicals
- Slips due to wet surfaces
- 10. Equipment storage
- Lifting heavy objects
- Tripping over equipment
- 11. Review work
- Stress from high workload
- Repetitive strain injuries
- 12. Document control measures
- Errors in reports
- Non-compliance with safety regulations
- 13. Safety inspection
- Missing critical hazard
- Incomplete inspection
- 14. Incident management
- Lack of promptness
- Insufficient training
- 15. Emergency procedures
- Not following protocol
- Fatigue from stress
- 16. Training sessions
- Incorrect use of equipment
- Non-attendance or attention
- 17. Maintenance routines
- Failure to maintain
- Incorrect procedure
- 18. Follow reporting protocols
- Failing to report
- Incorrectly documented information
- 19. Compliance with WHS requirements
- Non-compliance with laws
- Lack of understanding regulations
- 20. Review and amend process
- Missed steps in the procedure
- Insufficient input