L8: Tools for Use in Industry Flashcards
Why is the important to assess risk?
- Legislation
- Prevent injury
If there are any tasks that could be improved for safer manual task
When should we assess risk?
- New equipment
- New procedures
- Hazard reports
- In response to incidence
- New information comes to hand
What is the risk management process?
What are the 3 fundamentals of risk assessment?
- Hazard has been identified
- What are the consequences
- Minor first aid
- Serious injury or illness
- Fatality
- Probability: likelihood of harm occurring
- Certain (mostly)
- Very likely (probably
- Possible (might occur)
- Unlikely (could happen)
- Rare (may happen in exception circumstances)
What are the 3 consequences in the fundamentals of risk assessment?
- Minor first aid
- Serious injury or illness
- Fatality
What are the 5 probability in the fundamentals of risk assessment?
Probability: likelihood of harm occurring
- Certain (mostly)- Exposed to risk daily
- Very likely (probably
- Possible (might occur)
- Unlikely (could happen)
- Rare (may happen in exception circumstances)
Which 2 tasks are risker?
Need to understand the context (hard to make a decision)
What are the 3 levels of controlling risk?
What are 5 tool selections in tools for use?
There is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’
No tool is perfect – they all have limitations
Tool selection depends on
- The reason for the assessment
- Who is performing the assessment
- What is the budget of the project
- How will the information be used
- Clinical reasoning
- Force, repetition, posture risk assessment
What are 6 tools for the assessment of risk?
EXAM QUESTION
- ManTRA (Manual Task Risk Assessment)
- REBA (Rapid Entire Body Assessment) Postural analysis tool (health care industry).
- RULA (Rapid Upper Limb Assessment)
- Postural analysis for upper limb.
- Liberty Mutual Tables
- NIOSH lift equation
- UTAH Back Compression force calculator
What are 3 tools for the assessment of risk?
EXAM QUESTION
- ManTRA (Manual Task Risk Assessment)
- RAPID ENTIRE ____ ASSESSMENT
- REBA (Rapid Entire Body Assessment)
- RULA (Rapid Upper Limb Assessment)
- Liberty Mutual Tables
What are 6 equipments to bring to site for assessing risk?
- Tape measure
- Stop Watch
- Camera
- Scales
- Force Gauge
- Pen and graph paper
What are 4 features of ManTRA?
- Provides an ability to assess for body regions: lower limbs, back, neck/shoulder and arm/wrist/hand
- Considers total time a task is performed through the day (exposure)
- Considers time for which the task is performed without a break (duration)
- Considers 5 characteristics of the task: cycle time, force, speed, awkwardness and vibration
- Train crew required to load supply bag onto loco each shift
- Bag weighs between 15-20kg
- Up to 4 bags are lifted per shift
- Bags must be lifted to a height of 1750 to 2230
- Forward (horizontal) reach of up to 600mm is required
Postures and load affected (height and weight of bag)
What are 4 features of ManTRA ofr the scenario?