APPENDIX A SAMPLE RISK ASSESSMENT SHEET – Date: 1 February 2012 Assessor: Ann Person Location: Main spray painting and baking line Tasks: Paint mixing, colour matching, spraying, baking and cleaning up Workers involved: P. Stone and J. Saunders Duration of work: Approximately 1.5 hours of preparation and mixing, 5 hours spraying and 1.5 hours cleaning up HAZARDS Hazardous chemicals: 2-pack paint containing isocyanates (toxic, possible skin/respiratory sensitisation), thinners containing xylene IDENTIFIED (harmful by inhalation or through skin, skin irritant). Static electricity: potential contact of flammable solvents with static electricity may result in fire and explosion. manual tasks, heat stress, visibility, noise from plant and injection injury. Other issues: REVIEW OF review control measures including work processes and systems of work CONTROL review the safety data sheets and label of the products MEASURES review induction training (as required) review inspection and maintenance logs of plant review notifiable incidents POSSIBLE Paint mixing - Colour matching - Spraying -conducted in Baking up conducted – EXPOSURE conducted on open conducted indoors spray booth indoors vapours from FOR EACH bench no ventilation possible curing paint skin exposure to solvents TASK no ventilation inhalation exposure route and solvents such as gun washing product intermittent inhalation possible static skin exposure to drying line electricity exposure possible to whole inhalation of spray paint aerosols obstructs access of body cleaning solvent and exposure of skin to residual hands paint possibility of skin injection paint vapours protected but body injuries unprotected area inhalation of heat stress in hot weather contaminated by solvent vapour possible with cleaning rags unbroken work
APPENDIX A – SAMPLE RISK ASSESSMENT SHEET Date: 1 February 2012 Assessor: Ann Person Location: Main spray painting and baking line Tasks: Paint mixing, colour matching, spraying, baking and cleaning up Workers involved: P. Stone and J. Saunders Duration of work: Approximately 1.5 hours of preparation and mixing, 5 hours spraying and 1.5 hours cleaning up HAZARDS IDENTIFIED Hazardous chemicals: 2-pack paint containing isocyanates (toxic, possible skin/respiratory sensitisation), thinners containing xylene (harmful by inhalation or through skin, skin irritant). Static electricity: potential contact of flammable solvents with static electricity may result in fire and explosion. Other issues: manual tasks, heat stress, visibility, noise from plant and injection injury. REVIEW OF CONTROL MEASURES review control measures including work processes and systems of work review the safety data sheets and label of the products review induction training (as required) review inspection and maintenance logs of plant review notifiable incidents POSSIBLE EXPOSURE FOR EACH TASK Paint mixing - conducted on open bench no ventilation possible static electricity exposure of skin to paint inhalation of vapour possible Colour matching - conducted indoors no ventilation intermittent inhalation exposure to spray paint aerosols hands protected but body unprotected Spraying -conducted in spray booth possible inhalation exposure route skin exposure possible to whole of body possibility of skin injection injuries heat stress in hot weather with unbroken work Baking vapours from curing paint and solvents drying line obstructs access up – conducted indoors skin exposure to solvents such as gun washing product inhalation of cleaning solvent and residual paint vapours area contaminated by solvent cleaning rags