Job hazard analysis

Hazards

• A task-focused process that breaks work into steps, identifies hazards, and establishes controls before execution.

Controls

• The people doing and supervising the work should participate, address nonroutine conditions, record responsibilities, and revise the analysis when equipment, environment, or sequence changes.

Personal protective equipment

• Select task-specific PPE only after hazards and higher-order controls have been evaluated.

Regional considerations

• Applicable law, permits, collective agreements, venue rules, and qualified-person decisions take precedence.

In practice

The people doing and supervising the work should participate, address nonroutine conditions, record responsibilities, and revise the analysis when equipment, environment, or sequence changes.

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