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A job safety analysis (JSA) is a procedure to help integrate safety practices into tasks by identifying potential hazards and recommending safer methods. The basic steps are selecting a job, breaking it into steps, identifying hazards, and determining preventive measures. Factors like accident frequency, potential severity, new/modified jobs, and infrequent jobs set analysis priorities. Hazards include body parts catching, tools/machines, contact with moving objects, slips/trips/falls, strains, weather, and harmful substances.

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A job safety analysis (JSA) is a procedure to help integrate safety practices into tasks by identifying potential hazards and recommending safer methods. The basic steps are selecting a job, breaking it into steps, identifying hazards, and determining preventive measures. Factors like accident frequency, potential severity, new/modified jobs, and infrequent jobs set analysis priorities. Hazards include body parts catching, tools/machines, contact with moving objects, slips/trips/falls, strains, weather, and harmful substances.

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JOB SAFETY ANALYSIS (JSA)

What is a Job Safety Analysis (JSA)?

A job safety analysis (JSA) is a procedure which helps integrate accepted safety and
health principles and practices into a particular task or job operation.

In a JSA, each basic step of the job is to identify potential hazards and to recommend
the safest way to do the job.

What are the basic steps for conducting a Job Safety Analysis?

 Selecting the job to beanalyzed

 Breaking the job down into a sequence ofsteps

 Identifying potentialhazards

 Determining preventive measures to overcome thesehazards

Factors to be considered in setting a priority for analysis of jobs include:

 Accidentfrequencyandseverity:jobswhereaccidentsoccurfrequentlyorwhere they

occur infrequently but result in disablinginjuries.


 Potential for severe injuries or illnesses: the consequences of an accident,

hazardouscondition,orexposuretoharmfulsubstancearepotentiallysevere.
 Newlyestablishedjobs:duetolackofexperienceinthesejobs,hazardsmaynot be

evident oranticipated.
 Modified jobs: new hazards may be associated with changes in jobprocedures.

 Infrequently performed jobs: workers may be at greater risk whenundertaking

non-routine jobs, and a JSA provides a means of reviewinghazards.

How do I break the job into basic steps?

A rule of thumb is that most jobs can be described in less than ten steps. If more steps
are required, you might want to divide the job into two segments, each with its separate
JSA, or combine steps where appropriate.

 Each step is recorded in sequence. Make notes about what is done rather than
how it is done. Each item is started with an actionverb.

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 An important point to remember is to keep the steps in their correct sequence.
Any step which is out of order may miss serious potential hazards orintroduce
hazards which do not actuallyexist.

How do I identify potential hazards?


To help identify potential hazards, the job analyst may use questions such as these:
(NOTE: this is not a totally inclusive list)

 Can any body part get caught in or betweenobjects?

 Do tools, machines, or equipment present anyhazards?

 Can the worker make harmful contact with movingobjects?


 Can the worker slip, trip, orfall?

 Can the worker suffer strain from lifting, pushing, orpulling?

 Is the worker exposed to extreme heat orcold?

 Is excessive noise or vibration aproblem?

 Is there a danger from fallingobjects?


 Is lighting aproblem?

 Can weather conditions affectsafety?

 Is harmful radiation apossibility?

 Can contact be made with hot, toxic, or causticsubstances?

 Are there dusts, fumes, mists, or vapors in theair?

How do I determine preventive measures?"


The final stage in a JSA is to determine ways to eliminate or control the hazards
identified.

Do not use general statements such as "be careful" or "use caution". Specific
statementswhichdescribebothwhatactionistobetakenandhowitistobeperformed
arepreferable.

The generally accepted measures, in order of preference, are:

 Eliminate the hazard - This is the most effective measure. Thesetechniques


should be used to eliminate thehazards:

 Choose a differentprocess
 Modify an existingprocess

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 Improve environment(ventilation) 
 Modify or change equipment ortools 

 Contain theHazard
 Ifthehazardcannotbeeliminated,contactmightbepreventedbyusing
enclosures, machine guards, worker booths or similardevices.

 Revise WorkProcedures
 Consideration might be given to modifying steps which are hazardous,
changingthesequenceofsteps,oraddingadditionalsteps(suchaslocking out
energysources).

 Reduce the Exposure


 These measures are the least effective and should only be used if noother
solutions arepossible.
 One way of minimizing exposure is to reduce the number of times thehazard
isencountered.
 The use of appropriate personal protective equipment may be required. To
reduce the severity of an accident, emergency facilities, such as eyewash
stations, may need to beprovided.

JSA is a useful technique for identifying hazards so that workers can take measures to
eliminate or control hazards. Once the analysis is completed, the results must be
communicated to all workers who are, or will be, performing that job.

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