Job Safety Analysis – JSA

 

Job Safety Analysis – JSA

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Job Safety Analysis (JSA) is a simple but complete means to control the hazards involved as well as potentially unsafe actions most likely to occur in a given activity or job. JSA used to reduce hazards and to train employees in safe procedures. A JSA is important to any effective safety plan. It should be one of the first steps you take when there is a possibility of employee get affected. The best way to perform a job can efficiently and safely be determined only by carefully studying each steps involved in its activity.

When considering a JSA, first analyze the tasks with the worst accident experience or the greatest potential to cause injury to the worker and then the tasks with lesser risks. By establishing priorities, you can use the JSA as a focal point of the accident-prevention program.

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A JSA provides a systematic means of reviewing a employees previous experience and knowledge to establish safe work procedures, and it promotes employee involvement in establishing safety awareness while developing safe work practices.

To accomplish the JSA objectives:

• Understand the objectives and means of analyzing jobs steps by steps;

• Develop a plan for analyzing job steps on a regular basis;

• Analyze statistical data, incident experience, and management and employee experience to develop the sequence of job steps;

• Develop an action plan to control hazards identified with a timeline for implementing the action plan;

• Job supervisors review the results of all JSAs for which they have supervision;

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• Provide supervisors with a copy of all approved safe job procedures developed as a

result of a JSA;

• Train employees in accordance with the conclusions of the JSA both initially and each time the task is analyzed;

• Safe Work Practices(SWP) Have supervisors regularly observe the employees and ensure they follow safe work practices;

• Authority - Give supervisors the authority and responsibility to enforce adherence to safe work habits.

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