Instructions
1. Customize this sample Job Safety Analysis (JSA) to your workplace, environment and equipment, because specifics about potential hazards may differ between hotels. (Consider using the template on MGS to convert this two-column JSA to the newer 3-column format.)
2. Involve associates who are familiar with the job task while developing or customizing the JSA. Their understanding of the job will help find hazards, minimize oversights, ensure a quality analysis, and get other associate’s to “buy in” to the solutions due to a shared ownership of the safety program.
3. Delete this text when done.
Job Name: Moving Tables
PPE: Slip-Resistant Shoes and Any Other Assistive Equipment Necessary for Protection.
Task Steps
Hazards/Key Safety Points
1.
Size up the load. Determine size and weight.
Back Injury. Get help if needed. Utilize assistive equipment carts and dollies.
2.
Organize the work to avoid lifting from the floor or above shoulder level. Items to be lifted should be between shoulder and knee height.
Back Injury. Get help if needed. Utilize assistive equipment carts and dollies.
3.
Get as close to the load as possible before lifting it. If possible, slide the load towards you before picking it up.
Muscle Strain/Back injury. Positioning the load close to your body minimizes the possibility of muscle strain or back injury.
4.
Keep the load as close to your body as possible. If the load is large and cannot be placed between your knees as they are bent, bend at the hips and waist with your knees relaxed.
Muscle Strain/Back injury. It is more important to keep the load close than it is to bend your knees. Get help if needed/use mechanical assistance.
5.
Be sure footing is secure and path is clear of obstacles.
Physical injury from slip and fall. Do not lift objects that obscure vision or footing.
6.
Move feet so they point in the direction you are going. Do not twist, turn your feet.
Muscle Strain and/or back injury.
7.
Lift smoothly and slowly. Do not jerk the load.
Muscle Strain/back injury
8.
Alternate lifting tasks with lighter work to give your body a chance to recover. Remember that mechanical assistance is just as important for repetitive lifting as it is for heavy lifting.
Muscle Strain/Back injury
9.
Follow the same procedure to lower the load after lifting.
Muscle Strain/back injury
10.
Avoid carrying the load more than 10 feet without getting mechanical assistance. Use mechanical assistance (dolly or cart).
Muscle Strain/Back injury