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The Work In Remote Areas Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Trips
- falls
- manual handling injuries
- dehydration
- 2. Travel to Remote Location
- Vehicle accident
- fatigue
- wildlife encounters
- 3. Set up campsite
- Snake
- spider and insect bites
- sunburn
- 4. Equipment check
- Unfit machinery/equipment leading to accidents
- 5. Briefing of Task
- Miscommunication leading to unsafe working practices
- 6. Commence Work
- Strains
- sprains
- heat exhaustion
- 7. Maintenance and Servicing
- Incorrect servicing causing breakdowns
- injuries from servicing equipment
- 8. Packing up
- Inappropriate disposal of waste
- manual handling injuries
- 9. Travel to Home Base
- Fatigue
- vehicle accident
- 10. Report and Verify
- Data misinterpretation
- overlooked hazards
- 11. Unload and Store equipment
- Manual Handling injuries
- improper storage leading to future hazards
- 12. Review and improvement
- Ignoring potential hazards
- missing out on essential updates
- 13. Updated Safety Training
- Outdated knowledge of safety procedures
- complacency
- 14. Regular remote area training
- Inadequate skill set
- lack of knowledge about changing conditions
- 15. Emergency Procedure Practices
- Ignorance of the correct emergency procedure
- panic in a real emergency
- 16. Maintenance of communication equipment
- Failure communication equipment
- inability to call help during emergencies
- 17. Regular fauna and flora knowledge update
- Lack of knowledge about harmful plants or creatures
- accidental exposure/ingestion
- 18. Provision of suitable resources
- Inadequate resources leading to worker strain
- unprepared for emergency situations
- 19. Systematic vehicle inspection
- Vehicle breakdown in remote area
- lack of first aid equipment
- 20. Mental health support
- Ignoring mental pressure in remote work
- workers' stress not addressed properly