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The Use Of Lathes Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Slip
- trips and falls
- injury from handling heavy components
- 2. Machine Setup
- Machinery entanglement
- electrical hazards
- 3. Checking Equipment
- Electrocution
- explosion or fire risk
- 4. Material Loading
- Cut or abrasion from material handling
- manual lifting injuries
- 5. Lathe Operation
- Entanglement in rotating parts
- flying chips
- noise exposure
- 6. Drilling on Lathe
- Flying fragments
- exposure to cutting fluids
- hand injuries
- 7. Parting on Lathe
- Fire hazard from overheating
- fume inhalation
- skin irritation due to swarf
- 8. Material Unloading
- Burns from hot materials
- dropping heavy materials on feet
- 9. Cleaning up
- Slips
- trips and falls; skin irritation from coolants or cleaning chemicals
- 10. Tool Sharpening
- Eye injury from sparks or swarf
- cuts and abrasions
- 11. Breakdown Maintenance
- Exposure to hazardous energy (kinetic
- potential)
- Incorrect module replacement
- 12. Preventative Maintenance
- Unexpected machine start-up
- incorrect lockout/tagout
- 13. Inspection
- Machinery entanglement
- electrical hazards
- 14. Part Marking
- Inhalation of marking fluid fumes
- laser burns
- 15. Storage
- Unsafe stacking
- falling objects
- obstructed walkways
- 16. Disposal
- Handling of sharp waste
- chemical exposure during coolant disposal
- 17. Shutdown
- Machinery entanglement during part removal
- electrical hazards
- 18. Emergency Procedures
- Inadequate training or understanding of procedure
- panic-induced accidents
- 19. Reporting and Documentation
- Errors in documentation
- missed incident reporting
- 20. Review and Continuous Improvement
- Lack of follow-up actions
- repeated safety incidents due to non-compliance