Job Hazard Analysis : A Guide for Voluntary Compliance and Beyond

by Roughton; Crutchfield

• ISBN13: 9780750683463
• ISBN10: 0750683465
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780080554167
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-15
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
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Summary

A Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) identifies the basic job steps and tasks and their associated hazards and risks, and then develops safe operating procedures and hazard controls based on this analysis. In this book, James Roughton and Nathan Crutchfield argue that the JHA should be the centrepiece of any risk control and occupational safety and health program and a methodical analysis is required for the new American safety and health management standard ANSI/AIHA Z10. However, the traditional JHA has potential problems in gathering and analysis of task data and, with its focus on the sequence of steps, can miss the behavioral effects and the systems interactions between tools, equipment, materials, work environment, management and the individual worker. The authors present a new and improved concept for the JHA incorporating elements from Behavior-Based Safety and Six Sigma. They take the reader through the whole process of developing tools for identifying workplace hazards, developing systems that support hazard recognition, developing an effective JHA, and managing a JHA based program and fitting it into occupational safety and health management systems, allowing businesses to move from mere compliance to a pro-active safety management. The book is supported by numerous examples of JHAs, end of chapter review questions, sample checklists, action plans and forms. * Enhances the JHA with concepts from Behavior-Based Safety and proven risk assessment strategies from Six Sigma * Helps with methodically developing the risk assessment basis needed for ANSI/AIHA Z10 and other safety and health management systems * Supported by numerous real-life examples, end of chapter review questions, sample checklists, action plans and forms

Table of Contents

Developing a Toolkit for Identifying Workplace Risk and Hazards

Preparing for the Risk and Hazard Assessment

Workplace Hazard Analysis and Review of Associated Risk

Developing Systems to Manage Hazards

Developing Systems that Support Hazard Recognition

Understanding the Human Role in the Safety Process

Effective Use of Employee Participation

Defining Associated Risk

Assessing Safety and Health Training Needs

Developing an Effective Job Hazard Analysis

Planning for the Job Hazard Analysis

Breaking the Job Down Into Individual Components

Putting together the Puzzle Pieces

Standard or Safe Operating Procedures (SOP)

Additional Tools That Can Be Used To Develop A Successful JHA

Overview of a Safety Management Process

Six Sigma as a Management System: A Tool for Effectively Managing a JHA Process

References Final Words, Can You Develop a Culture that Will Sustain Itself?

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