Safety Protection Tip for Pipeline Workers: Perform a Thorough Job Safety Analysis (JSA)
One of the most important processes that needs to be performed at job sites is the Job Safety Analysis (JSA). In JSA, each step that will be undertaken for specific tasks is evaluated for potential hazards.
The following are the 4 basic steps of JSA as prescribed by the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety:
1. Selecting the Job to be Analyzed
2. Breaking Down the Job Into a Sequence of Basic Steps
3. Identifying Potential Hazards
4. Determining Preventive Measures to Overcome These Hazards
Ideally, all of the tasks at the job site should undergo safety analysis but this is not always possible given the time and the effort required by doing so.
≥ The first step—Selecting the Job to be Analyzed—
This is important in setting the priorities for the JSA. Some of the factors that should be considered when selecting the job to be evaluated are:
– Frequency or severity of accidents for specific jobs
– The newness of particular tasks
– Frequency that the job will be performed (some tasks are performed so infrequently that the workers are not too familiar with the safest ways to do them).
In most cases, the job safety analysis isn’t performed independently by a manager. It is a collaborative effort, best performed with the participation of the essential workers at the job site. The evaluation and documentation is done by the manager by watching a worker do each of the basic step.
Proper documentation is important for the evaluation of job site safety not just for the present time or immediate future but the distant future as well.
≥ Step 2—Breaking down a job into basic steps
Break down the job into basic procedure steps and give the steps concise but clear definitions in the documentation are important.
≥ Step 3—Identify Potential Hazards
For each task, every hazard must be identified and properly noted. Some of the hazards are dependent on other factors such as weather conditions so it is important to identify all potential hazards and their triggers.
Create an easy-to-read matrix of the basic steps, potential hazards, and safety recommendations.
≥ Step 4—Determining Preventive Measures
The final and most important step is determining the measures that should be performed to eliminate, contain, or reduce the hazards. This step is important because the end goal of the whole process is to keep the pipeline workers safe. To ensure the safety and health of the workers, the management must take the initiative to communicate the safety measures to team members and to effectively implement them.
For your interest following is a video sample of a Job Safety Analysis.
http://youtu.be/5Xy53n0OTok
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