Saturday, February 03, 2024
Job Hazard Analysis (JHA)
Before any task is performed the Project Manager and the Site Superintendent/Construction Manager shall develop a Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) for each task to be performed. The JHA shall be distributed to all supervisors and each supervisor shall review the JHA with the crew every morning and whenever starting a new task. The Site Superintendent/Construction Manager shall audit the JHA’s and coach crews in hazard recognition during crew safety observation. This information is taken from the employee handbook, and it is also on page 15 of the SHEP in section 2. Condensed Version of Manual for Quick Reference in the SHEP which can be access on elightinformation.com.
Crews are encouraged to provide input in the development of the task JHA. The JHA is a continuous improvement document. All updated JHAs shall be filed onsite, and a copy kept with the crew performing the task. The refined JHA will be forwarded to the Project Engineer for input into the company Safety Data Base. E Light has pre-built JHA’s available as templates on the iAuditor program that can be used as a starting point.
THE JHA SHOULD BE THOUGHT OUT EVERY DAY. IT SHOULD NOT BE JUST A LIST THAT IS GENERATED AND READ WETHER THE ITEMS APPLY TO WHAT WE ARE DOING ARE OR NOT. Think about what you are doing that day and think about the hazards that apply to that day's work and that is what should be addressed on the JHA.
The team leads must brief crews with the JHA before they start the task. The briefing should be done with the employees holding their Pre-task cards and checking off hazards on their Pre-task cards as the JHA briefing is read to them. They should also write down on their Pre-task cards anything that was read to them that is not on their check boxes. The employees should ask questions to ensure that they understand the hazards. The JHA must be left with the crews. You can do this easily by simply emailing the completed JHA to your crew. No one should be supervising a crew of more than 15 people at one time so this should be easy to do and can be done quickly once your crews email addresses are saved in your contacts. This way every crew member has a JHA on their phone for reference. You can also print the JHA and leave it in the work area. Also remember, that every JHA must be recorded as complete on iAuditor every day. The safety department audits this every morning at 9 am and if a JHA is missing, they will reach out to you and require you stop work until the JHA is received so be sure to complete the JHA and record it in iAuditor which done automatically if the JHA is done in iAuditor.
Please remember that the JHA should be task specific to all the tasks being done that day. The team lead should do the briefing for the task, not a single briefing for the entire crew that is doing 15 different tasks. The team lead does not have to be a foreman. It is anyone that you the superintendent make responsible for the task. For example, you are going to have two apprentices organize the lay down area and clean it up. You will tell one of the apprentices they are responsible, and that apprentice will be responsible for doing the JHA briefing. You as the supervisor will probably need to fill out the JHA and coach the apprentice how to do that so that they learn. Each team that you have can be handled the same way.
EMPLOYEES ARE ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR UNDERSTANDING THE JHA. AN EMPLOYEE CAN BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR PERFORMING WORK WITHOUT A JHA, PRETASK CARD and JHA BRIEFING.
IF YOU ARE ASKED TO PERFORM WITHOUT A JHA AND BRIEFING, ASK YOUR SUPERVISOR FOR A JHA.
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