Job Safety Analysis
What is Job Safety Analysis?
Job Safety Analysis (JSA) is a procedure that helps integrate accepted safety and health practices into a particular task or job operation. In JSA, the ultimate goal is to identify potential hazards in every step of a process and recommend the safest way to execute the job. JSA is a written procedure developed to understand, review, minimize or eliminate hazards associated with work processes. A Job Safety Analysis (JSA) must be conducted at the job site before the commencement of a job, or when there has been any modification done to the existing job process. JSA can also include risk assessment to evaluate the hazard occurance probability while also detailing the severity of its consequences, and the effectiveness of the control and preventive measures implemented.
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What are the four basic steps in job safety analysis?
Job Safety Analysis can be broken down into four stages that helps perform the analysis effectively. JSA is performed in stages as it helps complete every portion of the analysis easily and document the findings meticulously. The four basic stages in conducting a job safety analysis (JSA) are:
- requency and severity of accidents can help determine the starting point of the analysis
- Potential for illness or injury that involves hazardous conditions or materials
- New jobs that present a higher risk to workers
- Modifications in job procedures
- Non-routine jobs
Determine preventive measures to remedy identified hazards
- Use different techniques to elimination the hazard. The techniques can be anything from switching to a different process, substituting material with less hazardous options, modifying an existing process, implementing modifications to work environment, replace or modify existing tools.
- Containment is one of the preventive measures recommended if the hazard cannot be eliminated. Organizations can implement enclosures, install worker booths, or build machine guards to contain the severity of both existing and potential hazards.
- Work procedure revision by adding additional steps or implementing modifications to steps that are hazardous can improve the safety of the work environment and protect the workers.
- Minimize employee exposure to hazardous environments and materials to improve the severity of an accident, reduce fatalities, and promote safety. This can be achieved by implementing and training employees with preventive measures.
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How to identify potential hazards during job safety analysis?
Walk around the workplace to identify and understand processes and activities
Deliberately observe certain work activities to grasp the tasks
Engage actively with the employees to understand their line of thought
Peruse previous accident records to get insight into the existing problems
Gather records related to absenteeism in the workplace due to the work environment
Focus on workers and processes during after hours
Research manufacturer’s guidance to ensure adherence
Review existing operational procedures and work instructions
Ensure compliance with regulatory standards and guidance
Conduct service and maintenance for existing procedures and equipment
Before conducting JSA, appropriate training is necessary to understand the task’s competency and the risk associated with the assessment. Once the supervisor has the necessary knowledge and training, job safety analysis (JSA) can be carried out in five steps
- Document the process activity, step-by-step
- Identify hazards and potential injuries related to each task
- Document control measures to minimize or eliminate the risk of injury
- Delegate the responsibility to implement control measures
- Constantly monitor and review hazards and risks
The basic principle of JSA is to break down the work into individual tasks and analyze each task for potential safety risks or hazards. Hearing protection, fall protection, and other special types of personal protective equipment are covered under other sections of OSHA standards. OSHA requires a written certification that the hazard assessment has been performed. Job Safety Analysis also includes property damage and product quality.
CQ EHS to Automate the Job Safety Analysis (JSA) process
With CQ EHS Solution, it is possible to automate and streamline the entire JSA process and make it data-driven and collaborative.
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Overall, it is critical to follow certain best practices when it comes to JSAs. In this blog titled ‘7 Benefits of a Robust Job Safety Analysis (JSA) Process to Improve Safety Performance’, we go deeper into specific proactive measures that need to be taken.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who conducts job safety analysis?
When should an organization conduct job safety analysis?
- The potential for injury or illness is high
- A human error could result in severe injury or accident
- There is a need to interact with multiple people or systems
- The job is complex and difficult to perform without written instruction
- Any and all tasks have safety concerns
- New jobs or existing jobs have undergone any procedural or process changes
- Jobs have the potential to cause injuries or illness that could be severe or disabling
- New tools or machinery are introduced
How can CQ’s Workplace Safety for Work.com Solution?
- Each user can understand how the business is doing with respect to illnesses, injuries from daily operations, and key action items that require follow-up for corrective actions and tasks
- The app allows the creation of inspection programs that can be used to schedule workplace safety inspections at intervals based on risk to the site. Using the program, recurring inspection tasks can be generated that will automatically reflect in the assignee’s task list
- Use any device such as desktop, tablet, or mobile device to complete inspection checklists, report injuries, illnesses, or manage incidents as and when they occur
- Improve response to incidents and create corrective actions to address incidents as they occur and prevent recurrences
- Focused on People Safety, the app allows employers to manage both current and emerging hazards for workers, suppliers, contractors, clients, and the community.
- A robust Safety Risk Management platform that allows collection and analysis of information from operations to understand the root cause of potential and existing hazards and manage the risk.
- Management tools that give safety managers and HR the right information at their fingertips to better manage the staff returning after illness or injury.
- Improve facility compliance by using the right tools to schedule consistent inspections that ensure the safety of the workforce and quality of operations.
- Eliminate the guesswork out of decision-making with analytics that offers real-time data and metrics across the organization.
- Maintain safe workplaces with safety inspections
- Manage worker health and safety
- Offer continuous improvement for site safety
- Keep teams informed and connected
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