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MACHINERY RISK ASSESSMENT SURVEY
BENEFITS
The OHS regulations require employers to protect workers from the hazards posed by the machinery and equipment they use, such as pinchpoints, moving parts and electrical hazards. But before you can implement appropriate safety measures on such machinery, you need to know exactly what risks and hazards the machinery poses.
HOW TO USE THE TOOL
Adapt this form for your workplace’s machinery and OHS program, and the requirements of your jurisdiction’s OHS regulations, including any special requirements for the specific type of machinery. Use the form to inspect the pieces of machinery, assess their hazards, decide which machines should be given priority and which parts of those machines should be safeguarded first. Note that gathering this information may require repeated observations, especially when determining what the worker does when normal operations are interrupted. Then ensure you follow-up on the results of the survey by implementing appropriate safety measures, such as machine guards.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
WORKSAFEBC
Machine Guarding: What the OHS Laws Require You to Do
Machinery & Equipment: How to Choose an Appropriate Guard
5 Key Elements of a Troubleshooting Policy
How to Comply with Lockout Requirements
How to Comply with Group Lockout Requirements
MACHINERY RISK ASSESSMENT SURVEY
Worksite:______Date:______
Machine Name:______
Machine ID #:______
Machine Function:______
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Who performed survey:
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2.______
3.______
4.______
5.______
HAZARDOUS CONDITIONIdentify and describe every hazardous motion or harmful condition to which a worker’s body parts are exposed, such as rotating shafts, in-running nip points, shearing parts, reciprocating parts, punching action, impact hazards, flying debris, abrasive surfaces, electrical hazards, hot/toxic fluids, vapours, emissions, radiation.
Be as descriptive and detailed as possible. / WORST INJURY
Describe the worst injury that would reasonably occur due to each hazardous condition.
Use the following as a guide:
• Fatal
• Major (normally irreversible, such as permanent spinal damage, loss of sight, amputation, crushing, respiratory damage)
• Serious (normally reversible, such as loss of consciousness, burns, fractures)
• Minor (bruising, cuts, light abrasions) / Estimated severity of injury
Minor: 1
Serious: 5
Major: 7
Fatal: 10 / Estimated likelihood of injury
Unlikely: 1
Possible: 5
Probable: 7
Certain: 10
See Note #1 / Estimated level of risk
(estimated severity X estimated likelihood)
See Note #2
Note #1: The following factors may be useful when estimating the likelihood of injury:
• Machine cycle speed • Hand feeding with foot control
• Operator training and experience • Boredom factor (repetition)
• History of jams and misfeeds resulting in frequent access to danger areas of the machine
• Previous injuries on this machine or machines of this type
Note #2: Use the estimated level of risk to set the priority for implementing safeguarding measures. The higher the estimated level of risk, the more urgent it is to implement safeguarding solutions.
Recommended safeguarding to eliminate or reduce the above risks to an acceptable level(Always follow the hierarchy of safeguarding controls regardless of the perceived level of risk.)
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