USC Contractor Risk Assessment: Sample 1
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1. USC CONTRACTOR RISK ASSESSMENT Sample 1 University of the Sunshine Coast The best of both worlds Work Health and Safety legislation requires that in any work environment or activity risks to health and safety must be managed This entails the identification of any reasonably foreseeable hazards that could give rise to health and safety risks and eliminating or minimising the risks so far as Is reasonably practical To minimise risks to health and safety risk control measures must be implemented USC policy requires that this be recorded in the form of a risk assessment Basically a risk assessment details the hazards that you have identified in the work you are to undertake at or for USC and the control measures that you will implement to reduce the risks associated with those hazards Please see below a guide to completing a risk assessment you should use the Contractor Induction Guide to assist you to fill out this document Delete or put a line through the areas that do not pertain to your work and complete the areas that do pertain to your work and add any other hazards you have identified Remember the information given below is not exhaustive you must complete your risk assessment according the risks you have identified in the work you are to undertake and document the controls you have put in place to eliminate or minimise those risks Note any high risk work eg work in a confined space if there is a risk of f2. alling more than 2 metres trench or excavation deeper than 1 5 metres requires the submission of a Safe Work Method Statement SWMS HSW RA 006 0513 Page 1 of 4 CRICOS Provider Number 01595D USC CONTRACTOR RISK ASSESSMENT Sample 1 Risk Assessment Template Description of work to be done Date of the work activity Description of work task Hazard Description Parking and driving Vehicle collision Some suggested controls Comply with USC speed limits Pedestrian injury Minimal driving within the grounds Avoid driving in shared zones Have a spotter for any reversing vehicles Work that creates dust or smoke Smoke and dust inhalation Use of Personal Protective Equipment PPE Water application to dusty areas Activation of smoke alarms USC hot work permit Request Facilities Management deactivate smoke alarms for duration of work Disruption of other USC activities Consult with relevant USC personnel Conduct work during low occupancy times to reduce impact Reduce dust by using water Electrical work Electrocution All equipment tested and tagged Pre work inspection of all equipment Employees trained in safe use of equipment Preventative maintenance program Tripping over electrical cords Cord placement to avoid walkways Secure all cords Use of signage if necessary Trenching or excavation Fall into trench depth of lt 1 5m Appropriate barricades and fenci
3. ies and Appropriate guarding on machinery Burns or scalds from contact with Appropriate barricades and signing hot surfaces Preventative maintenance program Plant overbalanced Used in accordance with design standards Documented safe work procedures When not in use key removed mobile plant to be chocked blocked blades and buckets lowered to the ground Use of compressed air equipment Injection of air into skin Use of appropriate PPE Foreign bodies embedded into skin Housekeeping standards reduce dust and other small object or eyes Workers trained Documented safe work procedures Strike with uncontrolled hose Equipment compliant with Australian Standards or coupling Equipment check prior to use All couplings fitted with safety clips Air lines appropriately stored Noise induced hearing loss As per work producing noise below Use of hazardous chemicals Exposure to hazardous chemicals causing Workers trained and familiar with MSDS injury or illness Safe Work Procedures Appropriate MSDS eg Australian and less than five years old Storage of minimal amount of chemicals Environmental damage from spills Spill kits and or disposal Workers trained Appropriate disposal procedures Hot work Burns Isolate hot work Workers trained PPE Equipment to Australian Standards Preventative maintenance schedule Fire Housekeeping reduce combustibles Observe hot work area after completion to ensure work is sufficiently c
4. ng Appropriate signage Erosion and loss of sediment Erosion and sediment control measures in place Damage to underground services Identify location of all underground services Obtain permission from Facilities Management prior to any excavation Slips trips and falls from sediment left on pathways Sediment control measures in place Barricades and fencing in place Sediment cleaned from pathways at completion of work Use of equipment and tools Equipment tool malfunction Injury from contact with operating equipment tools All equipment and tools to comply with relevant Australian Standards Preventative maintenance program Visual inspection of all equipment and tools prior to use damaged tools removed All electrical equipment tagged and tested Correct storage and handling of tools Workers trained in use of equipment and tools Guards in place where provided or recommended PPE HSW RA 006 0513 Page 2 of 4 Controls you have implemented USC CONTRACTOR RISK ASSESSMENT Sample 1 Description of work task Hazard Description Some suggested controls Controls you have implemented Use of mobile mechanical plant Pedestrian collision with plant Workers using mobile plant to be trained and licenced if required or part there of Exclusion area around mobile plant Spotters where necessary Used in accordance with design standards Documented safe work procedures Entrapment or crush injur
5. ool Accidental activation of USC Hot Work Permit fire detection system Approval from FM for isolation of fire detection systems Manual tasks Injury to worker or other Workers trained Use of lifting devices Safe Work Procedures for tasks requiring manual tasks HSW RA 006 0513 Page 3 of 4 USC CONTRACTOR RISK ASSESSMENT Sample 1 Some suggested controls Controls you have implemented Description of work task Hazard Description Work producing noise Noise induced hearing loss Adherence to USC Hearing Conservation Program Equipment noise reduction strategies etc Disruption of USC activities Liaise with USC Contact Person Noise producing work done at low occupancy times Work from heights lt 2 m Fall from height Worker training Safe Work Procedure Ladders and scaffolds complaint with Australian Standards Injury from being struck by a falling object Objects Tools etc to be secured Exclusion zone around worker Work in the Sun Sun burn dehydration heat stress Avoid work in hottest part of day PPE Adequate fluid intake Risk Assessment completed by Date List of workers have read and understood the contents of this risk assessment Name Signature Date HSW RA 006 0513 Page 4 of 4
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