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What is a (JSA), PTP, JHA, AHA, JSE?

A job safety analysis (JSA) is a procedure which helps integrate accepted safety and health principles and practices into a particular task or job operation. In a JSA, each basic step of the job is to identify potential and to plan and recommend the safest way to do the job. JSA is a useful technique for identifying hazards so that workers can take measures to eliminate or control hazards.

Once the analysis is completed, the results must be communicated to all workers who are, or will be, performing that job.

In working with our customers, the Job Safety Analysis may be alternatively be called a Pre-Task Plan (PTP), Job Analysis (JHA), Activity (AHA). Also, some customers use a Job Safety and Environmental Analysis (JSEA) to incorporate environmental elements into the safety planning.

What are the basic steps for conducting a Job Safety Analysis?

The five basic stages in conducting a JSA are:

1. Select the job to be analyzed; 2. Break the job down into a sequence of steps 3. Identify potential hazards 4. Determining control measures for each potential hazard 5. Determine a for each of the steps or Work Tasks.

In the coming weeks, we will be looking at each of these steps and breaking down what we need to do to analyze and plan for a specific task we will be doing.

Factors to be considered in setting a priority for the depth of the analysis of jobs include:

 Accident frequency and severity: jobs where accidents occur frequently or where they occur infrequently, but result in disabling injuries.  Potential for severe injuries or illnesses: the consequences of an accident, hazardous condition, or exposure to harmful substance are potentially severe.  Newly established jobs: due to lack of experience in these jobs, hazards may not, be evident or anticipated. Modified jobs: new hazards may be associated with changes in job procedures.  Infrequently performed jobs: workers may be at greater when undertaking, non-routine jobs, and a JSA provide a means of reviewing hazards.

Please take a few minutes this morning to examine the quality of the JSA that is being used today to cover the tasks you will be doing.

Ask yourself and your co-workers-does this JSA have the information to communicate to a person who has not done the task before what are the steps to take to do the task, what the hazards of task are, what can be done to minimize those hazards and, what are the contingency plans if the task changes or there if there are new or additional hazards discovered?

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