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The Working At Heights (Rack Storage) Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Falling from heights
- Equipment failure
- 2. Ladder inspection
- Structural instability
- Poor maintenance
- 3. Climbing up to reach storage point
- Slips
- trips and falls
- Manual handling injuries
- 4. Retrieving materials from racks
- Falling objects
- Inadequate support for objects
- 5. Reaching for objects
- Musculoskeletal injuries
- Falling from heights
- 6. Lowering materials to ground level
- Dropped items
- Slips and falls
- 7. Safe descent from height
- Falls
- Incorrect use of equipment
- 8. Loading and unloading of racks
- Manual handling injuries
- Struck by moving object
- 9. Surrounding area awareness
- Getting caught in moving machinery
- Colliding with objects or personnel
- 10. Checking the condition of safety harness
- Equipment failure
- Ignoring the need for a safety check
- 11. Wearing of personal safety equipment
- Incompetence in using safety equipment
- Neglecting to use safety equipment
- 12. Conduct regular breaks to prevent fatigue
- Fatigue leading to accidents
- Lack of focus due to exhaustion
- 13. Dealing with an emergency situation
- Panic and confusion
- Further risks incurred during evacuation
- 14. Finishing up the work
- Ignorance of safety procedures while closing
- Mishandling of tools
- 15. Post work clean-up
- Tripping over materials left out
- Injury from mismanaged tools and equipment