Ensure your workplace remains safe and compliant with our versatile risk assessment templates, designed to meet Australia’s Work Health and Safety (WHS) standards. These professionally crafted documents follow a consistent, structured approach that can be adapted for any industry or task.
Key Features:
• Uniform Structure: Each template includes clearly defined sections for job steps, potential hazards, risk matrices, control measures, and emergency procedures.
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• Regulatory Compliance: Built to align with Australia’s WHS legislation and Codes of Practice, these templates include guidance notes and reference links to help you stay compliant.
• Emergency Preparedness & Documentation: Integrated sections for emergency response planning and thorough documentation review ensure all critical safety information is captured and easily accessible.
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The Working On Public Footways And Roads Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Improper planning
- lack of safety gear
- 2. Setup work area
- Trips and falls
- traffic accidents
- 3. Tool and equipment inspection
- Faulty equipment
- inadequate training
- 4. Traffic control installation
- Hit by passing vehicles
- improper positioning
- 5. Excavation
- Collapse of excavation
- Noise pollution
- 6. Concreting and asphalt laying
- Slips and trips
- Chemical exposure
- 7. Public interaction
- Public intrusion into work site
- Verbal abuse
- 8. Use of Power tools
- Electric shock
- Cuts or abrasions
- 9. Manual handling
- Musculoskeletal injuries
- Slips and falls
- 10. Demolition of structures
- Falling objects
- Unstable structures
- 11. Backfilling and compaction
- Trapped in machinery
- Hearing damage
- 12. Clean up and waste disposal
- Exposure to harmful substances
- Incorrect lifting techniques
- 13. Night works
- Reduced visibility
- Fatigue
- 14. Site pack down
- Incorrect storage
- Slips and trips
- 15. Review and debrief
- Missed incident reports
- Incomplete work
- 16. Equipment maintenance
- Inadequate training
- Faulty equipment
- 17. Reactivating traffic flow
- Collision with vehicles
- Miscommunication
- 18. Site handover
- Incomplete work
- Customer dissatisfaction
- 19. Documentation and reporting
- Loss of important data
- Inadequate document control
- 20. Post work assessment
- Risks still present
- Unresolved issues