Many workers are injured and killed in the workplace every day in the United States. We prevent injuries and illnesses in the Beyond Safety Workplace at NASA Ames Research Center by looking at our workplace operations, establishing proper job procedures, and ensuring that all employees are trained properly BEFORE hazard exposure occurs. One of the best ways to determine and establish that proper work procedures are in place is to conduct a Job Hazard Analysis (JHA). The JHA requires us to:
(1) List the steps of a hazardous task
(2) List the hazards associated with each step
(3) List the Safe Practices to eliminate/mitigate each hazard
If there are no safe practices to eliminate or mitigate a hazard to an acceptable level, the task cannot and will not be performed until a solution is found.
Here’s an OSHA document that explains the Job Hazard Analysis process in more detail:
OSHA – Job Hazard Analysis
The goal of this cache is to create a Job Hazard Analysis that details the steps, hazards, and safe practices that are required to safely find this cache. We’ll call this document a “Cache Hazard Analysis.”
Beyond Safety will review the hazards/safe practices included in your logs (1 hazard/geocacher) and will include them into the Cache Hazard Analysis document. Please review the latest version of the Cache Hazard Analysis (see below) to make sure you’re not duplicating a documented hazard and/or safe practice. Attributes and Parking Waypoints will also be added to the cache listing based on your log entries (1 attribute/waypoint/geocacher).
4.26.12 – Cache Hazard Analysis
Thanks for doing your part to develop the Cache Hazard Analysis document, and we hope you have a safe geocaching day in the Fremont Older Open Space Preserve. For the FTF there is a NASA bottle opener that was purchased at Kennedy Space Center on July 8th, 2011, which was launch day for the final Space Shuttle Mission (Atlantis STS-135).