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The Use Hand-Held Routers, Faces Or Jigsaws Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Incorrect setup
- insufficient light
- cluttered workspace
- 2. Equipment check
- Improper tool condition
- electrical hazards
- 3. Power connection
- Electrical shock
- fire hazard due to short circuit
- 4. Drawing layout
- Miscalculations
- wrongly marked positions
- 5. Hand-held Routers handling
- Accidental start-up
- lack of control over the router
- cuts and abrasions
- 6. Jigsaw handling
- Poor control
- accidental activations
- vibration-related injuries
- 7. Material Holding
- Pinching fingers
- material slipping or falling
- 8. Cutting
- Dust particles
- causing eye injury; sharp edges
- 9. Routing Edges
- Kickbacks from router
- lack of control of router path and speed
- 10. Sanding
- Dust inhalation
- vibration-related injuries
- 11. Finishing
- Exposure to harmful chemicals from finisher
- Fire Hazard
- 12. Cleaning up
- Tripping on scrap pieces
- sharp offcuts
- 13. Tool Disconnection
- Unanticipated startup
- electric shock
- 14. Equipment storage
- Injury from improperly stored tools
- tripping hazard
- 15. Waste disposal
- Cuts from sharp waste
- improper waste segregation