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Title Job Safety analysis (JSA)

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Issuing Dept. EH&S

Issue Date 04/09/2021

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Most accidents and incidents in a facility are the result of unsafe acts.
Unsafe acts generally occur because of behaviours by an individual or
group. Behaviour is difficult to change because it can involve personal
habits and attitudes. Two examples of risk-reducing approaches are job
safety analysis and safety data sheets.
Job safety analysis (JSA) procedures offer effective means to prepare for
and perform tasks by giving personnel the opportunity to analyse
hazards and potentially unsafe conditions/activities and use tools or
equipment to prevent incidents.
This can include:
• Approaches to working in confined spaces.
• Lockout/tagout for energy or high-voltage electrical systems.
• Hot work processes where welding, brazing, or soldering occurs and
where flammable material is present.
• Handling asbestos coating material, lead, mould, radioactive materials,
chemicals and so forth. A JSA may also be known as a job hazard
assessment/analysis (JHA), safe operating procedure or safe work
method statement (SWMS). All are designed to explain what’s required
to complete a job or activity safely, with minimum risk to the individual,
others nearby, the property and the environment.
In general, JSAs provide details on an activity while SWMSs provide
detail on a task. Safe working method is the provision of information,
instruction, and training. In some cases, if the workers have the

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Doc. Title Job Safety analysis (JSA)
Doc. Control # 108
Issuing Dept. EH&S

Issue Date 04/09/2021

Revision # 01

competence to interpret and correctly follow new methods, simply

informing them of changes to existing methods will be sufficient. In
other instances, detailed theoretical and practical training will have to
be provided to ensure that workers understand and can apply the safe
working methods. Once the safe working method has been put in place
it should be checked periodically. This is to ensure that:
The new safe working method is being correctly followed and applied. If
it is not, the supervision must be improved.
The new method, in fact, safe. If it is not, then it will have to be
reviewed and amended accordingly.