OTHY202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Risk Management
2 Aug 2018
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Week 9 risk management manual handling risks. Apply the "hierarchy of risk controls to the management of manual handling risks. Prevention is better than cure -> focus on preventing the risk. When controlling risk, always use the hierarchy of risk controls: eliminate, substitution, engineering, administrative, ppe. Explain the importance of reviewing and monitoring manual handling control measures. Reviewed regularly to determine benefit of the control. Evaluate worker performance and check for any hazards and risk. Identify the components of a job task analysis (jta). Job task analysis: the analysis of the physical job demands of a worker. Helps identify job tasks which are potentially hazardous. Proceed to the next step of hazard identification and risk assessment. Component of job task analysis (jta): background information obtained from interview hours, break, how long they undertake duties, description of duties basic summary of all the duties they have to undertake.
