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Risk, hazards and safety assessment wood industry using job safety analysis
Abstract
This study carried out on a job safety assessment of wood industry. Using the detailed analytical-descriptive survey involving woodworkers, assessment was carried out based on the literature review. In wood industry, the work which performed are manual lifting, forceful gripping, and the hazard like wood dust and hazardous chemicals in all these process, the hazard is reported commonly. The other job like finishing, planning/scraping, hammering arealso done. The Job Safety Analysis methods assisted to evaluate the level of risk; environmental hazards, hazardous substance inhalation and other injuries. Thus through JSA methodology, we can easily find the likelihood of hazards, effects, consequences and thus can provide certain recommendation towards safety assessment of wood processing units.
Keywords: woodworking, hazard, safety, JSA, analysis.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37591/joise.v7i3.4252
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