For the Job Hazard Assessment webinar: 1. The webinar provided an overview of how to conduct a job hazard assessment, including defining job tasks, identifying hazards, ranking risks, and identifying controls. 2. Key steps included creating a form with header, body, and footer sections; compiling a list of job tasks; categorizing biological, chemical, physical, and other hazards; measuring risk levels; and identifying engineering, administrative, and PPE controls. 3. Examples were given for potential job tasks, hazards, and controls for an administrative worker position. Contact information was provided for follow up questions.

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Job Hazard Assessment Fundamentals
August 16, 2012
Presented by: Kathleen Collins, Health and Safety Manager at
Drake International

2. Agenda
What is a Job Hazard Assessment?
• Overview of Job Descriptions
• Identifies Job Tasks related to the Job
• Identifies and Describes Hazards related to Jobs
• Identifies Ranking of Hazards
• Identifies Controls
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3. Implementation
When do you implement a Job Hazard Assessment?
• Recruitment
• Onboarding
• Orientation
• Performance Review
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4. Promotion of Healthy Workplace
Job Hazard Assessments can assist in many ways:
• Information about hazards and controls
• Provides opportunity for communication about risk
factors and consequences
• Understanding of skill
• Positivity fosters positive attitude towards working
hazard-free
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5. Getting Started
Where to source information to complete a job hazard
assessment:
• Claims review
• Accident, incident and near misses
• Inspection
• Job descriptions
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6. Getting Started Continued
Where to source information to complete a job hazard
assessment:
• Department functions
• Work design analysis
• Physical demands analysis
• Worker interviews
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7. JHA Step 1
Create a form that includes the following selections:
H=Header B=Body F=Footer
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8. JHA Step 2
Completing information in the Header:
Job Hazard Analysis Describes the subject
Company Name Information specific to company in question
Department Information applicable to the function of the
department
Analysis by/date: Who is completing the information and when
was the information analyzed
Review/Approved Who and when the employers’ representative
by/date: reviewed the information
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9. JHA Step 3
Definition of the Job
The definition of the job should include the following information:
• Worker is required to preform specific task related to the
job of________
• Worker is required to perform specific task with
People, Equipment, Material, Environment, and Process
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10. JHA Step 3
Definition of Job example:
“Worker will be required to perform tasks such as; communicating via
telephone, fax, email, and update social media mediums. Required to
interact with the workers, clients, customers, and other public.
Required to register sales, handle money, package merchandise and
be required to receive and ship material and mail. Worker will be
required to type and transcribe operating variety of office equipment.
Worker will be required to file, document, write, edit and be required to
perform accounting and bookkeeping, research, and interviewing and
other task. Worker may be ask to participated in
marketing, events, and promotion activities and coordination both
indoors and outdoors.”
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11. JHA Step 3
Some of the information that would need to be completed
for Job Tasks and Activities:
• Compile a long list of activities or jobs tasks related to
the job
• Involve workers, supervisor and employer
• Reference industry standards
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12. JHA Step 4
Examples of job tasks associated with an
administration job would include:
• Advertising, Answering, Bookkeeping, Calculation, Closing, Collectin
g
• Computing, Conversing, Communicating, Coordinating, Currency
Handing
• Generating, Data
Entry, Delivering, Editing, Emailing, Engaging, Faxing, Handling, Ins
erting, Interacting, Invoicing
• Keyboarding, Keying, Lifting, Laminating, Mailing, Marketing, Materi
al Handling, Noting, Opening, Operating
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13. JHA Step 5
Information about the hazards will be required to be
broken down into the following categories:
• Biological Hazards
• Chemical Hazards
• Stress/and Work Design (Ergonomic/Social)Hazards
• Physical Hazards
• Safety Hazards
(You can add more hazard categories if you like)

14. JHA Step 5
Some examples of hazards for an Administration
Worker would be as follows:

15. JHA Step 6
Measuring the risk you will need to create a measurement
system, similar to the following:
High Potential Loss of Life, Serious Injury/Illness,
or Catastrophic or Significant Property
Damage
Medium Moderate Injury/Illness, or Moderate
Property Damage
Low Minor Injury/Illness or Minor Property
Damage

16. JHA Step 7
Identification of Controls is the final step of
completing the Job Hazard Assessment
You will identify what is in place to protect the workers:
• Engineering
• Administration
• Personal Protective Equipment

17. JHA Step 7
Some Examples of the controls stress/and work design for
an administrator would be as follows:
Engineering Controls:
Lifting Devices, Carts for material handling
Added assistive devices
Administrative Controls:
Alternating Work, Exposure Schedules, Light Task Duties
Limit access to work areas (related with aggression or violence in the workplace)
PPE:
Ice cleats for shoes
Warm jacket and gloves

18. HEALTH AND SAFETY Q & A
For additional questions please email:
Kathleen: kcollins@na.drakeintl.com
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19. Drake Mobile
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20. SPECIAL OFFER
30 minute
complimentary Health
and Safety
Consultation
To Redeem Your Offer
Please contact Kathleen:
kcollins@na.drakeintl.com
416-216-1088
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21. Thank You for Attending
For Questions please contact Kathleen Collins
kcollins@na.drakeintl.com
416-216-1088
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