Why Every Industrial Coatings Project Needs Job Safety Analysis

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute (OSHRI), job safety analysis is a “hazard identification and sometimes qualitative risk assessment method, which specifically concentrates on hazards created by a task performed by an employee”.

The technique not only identifies hazards but assesses risk, aims to prevent loss, and implements control measures, OSHRI explains. Many terms describe job safety analysis, such as job hazard assessment or task safety analysis, industrial painters use many ways to approach job safety analysis. Regardless of terminology or the nuances of methodology, job safety analysis is what prevents a project from becoming a costly, potentially dangerous accident.

The industrial painters at Eagle Eye Services implement stringent job safety reviews and work with our team to improve safety from the beginning to the end of a project. Here’s some insight into what job safety analysis is and why it’s important for every industrial coatings project.

What Is Job Safety Analysis and Why It’s Important

Job safety analysis involves a deep dive into each task at a job site. It’s not an employee performance review. It nonetheless requires the person initiating the hazard assessment to watch employees performing job-related tasks very closely, explaining each step of the task, obtaining photo documentation of each step, and verifying with the employee that they understand each step.

Next, the person executing the job safety analysis must assess the possible risks, including worst-case scenarios, of each step in a job-related task. For example, they’ll need to consider every instance when a human error could occur and what the potential outcome is.

They develop a comprehensive list of possible hazards and outcomes and then work with the employee performing the task to create ways to reduce risk. Employee feedback is advantageous during this part of the job safety analysis because they are on the ground floor, generating experience performing tasks and finding ways it can be done more safely.

The way tasks are performed will always change in order to increase safety. For example, we may swap out machinery, add personal protective equipment, and increase ventilation.

Regardless of the task, job safety analysis is necessary to improve training, increase job site safety, and protect employees and equipment.

Job safety analysis doesn’t occur once; it’s done in rounds. We reassess and retrain as the project progresses. In the rare event that a near-accident or accident occurs, we thoroughly investigate and use it as an opportunity to make process changes.

How Eagle Eye Services Performs Job Safety Analysis

In our industrial painting team, we choose a risk assessment professional to review how each task is performed as we begin a coatings project. They work with all of our employees and third-party contractors to analyze every step of every task, mitigate risk, and communicate clearly how tasks should be performed.

We take job safety very seriously and regularly review how we can approach industrial painting projects in safer ways. Contact us today to learn more about how Eagle Eye Services performs job safety analysis.

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