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Begin the Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) process

The recent previous JHA blogs by Tommy Bristow puts emphasis on the need for the development of a JHA process.  You can’t sit and remain in the office developing programs.  As part of the process, you must begin to take direct action.   The initial loss data analysis should have identified several types of incidents that might be the critical few – see the Paredo Principle.  Scanning the OSHA 300, discussion of incidents with employees and managers, reviewing accident investigations and looking at insurance loss runs, specific departments and job titles may now stand out.  Based on this history and the risk assessment of severity potential, you should begin to target jobs/tasks and steps that are creating the loss-producing history.

You can now focus in on where losses are developing.  While the strategic plan that covers all aspects of your process must continue on a number of fronts,  the JHA allows you to begin a rifle shot approach to begin the control of specific losses or risk.  You must balance your approach between areas of risk (potential and severity) with existing losses as these two areas may or may not converge.   Some jobs may have no losses but be a high uncontrolled risk.

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Using safety committees may not always be the best approach to reach a decision. But, these group decisions often can establish the best buy-in from employees. The benefits are derived from many viewpoints of varied experiences and can help to produce better decisions through consensus.

Safety committees have been used successfully in allowing employees participate in the safety process. Joint labor-management committees are a popular method of employee participation. At many unionized facilities, employee safety committees (with members selected by the union or elected by the employees) work alone, with little direct management involvement, on various tasks. In other workplaces, employees participate on a central safety committee. Some organization use employees or joint committees for specific purposes, such as conducting workplace surveys, investigating incidents, special projects, and training new employees, etc.

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Listen to a discussion concerning this subject at  Pro Act Safety.

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