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Job Safety Analysis Procedures- Assessing Training Needs

By Deborah Evans


The risk of injury is an inherent part of most constructions and a lot of heavy industry projects. We can't eliminate risk entirely, but we can reduce the risk and control it using standard procedures and good work practices. Or, we can just accept it as a normal part of doing a job. The question becomes "How much risk are you and your employees willing to accept?" job safety analysis procedures are critical in any business.

Just presenting "training" is not enough when trying to install any critical safety process, and in particular when developing an effective task evaluation to thoroughly identify risk and hazard characteristics of a given task. It is critical that an effective training program be designed so that it can be effectively deployed to make clear the specific customized safety needs.

The approach to establishing an effective evaluation should include: Employees should be brought into the hazard identification and hazard analysis. One obstacle that could inhibit employees from taking part is the misperception that work risk evaluation is a form of motion and time study. While it may help with improving the job, these are not purely efficiency studies directed at employee effectiveness. Training may be needed on the basics of hazard identification and the logistics for setting up the process will need to be reviewed.

At the lowest management level, risk has to be controlled by the people doing the work and their immediate supervisors. In both the planning and execution of a task, it is essential to make sure that all those who need to be involved are given an adequate opportunity to be involved and are kept informed of developments that might increase the risks and change the measures needed to deal with them.

Is this a normal situation? After developing an evaluation, we implement the desired safe procedure without the proper training due to various reasons (budget, time, and resources) and simply hope that it just works. When someone is injured, we immediate go to the Job Hazard Analysis and question why the employee failed to recognize the hazard associated with the task. We assumed that employees had the same understanding as we do concerning the hazards and controls.

The tools and methods used to identify and qualify risks should be reviewed. Accident investigations, Inspections, maintenance records, as well as policies, rules, procedures, etc., should be effective, comprehensive, and upgraded and revised as warranted. Report tracking of recommendations, controls and issues is essential to assuring effective execution of controls.

The fact that each person's perception of risk and level of risk tolerance is different is one of the things that complicate communication of risk on a construction site. The JSA is a tool used to improve and document the communication process and ensure mutual understanding of risks and controls by all the people involved.

Training is the transfer of knowledge from one individual (the trainer) to another individual (the trainee) in a way that allows that knowledge be understood and used in the execution of assigned roles and responsibilities and various associated tasks. The Job Hazard evaluation can clarify and deplete underlying conflicts or confusion regards the steps needed for a better workplace




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