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706 Conducting a Job Hazard Analysis (JHA)
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Introduction

If your company is working towards OSHA's Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program (SHARP) or the Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) certification, you need to be conducting a Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) on all hazardous tasks.

This course is designed to introduce the important steps in conducting a Job Hazard Analysis (also called Job Safety Analysis) for the purpose of writing a safe job procedure. The course will help you prepare and conduct each step of an effective Job Hazard Analysis.

The course includes a discussion of conducting a risk assessment, determining hazards, developing preventive measures and safety precautions, and tips on writing a safe job procedure. We'll also discuss why the JHA is a great training tool.

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, you should be able to:
ID Objective
TO 1.0 Achieve a minimum score of 70% on the final course assessment.
LO 1.1.1 Describe the steps in performing a risk analysis to prioritize jobs.
LO 1.1.2 Discuss how probability, severity, and exposure are used in the risk formula.
LO 1.2.1 Describe the characteristics of each of the steps within the JHA procedure and the best practices when conducting the JHA.
LO 1.3.1 Describe questions to ask to identify hazards in the JHA and they types of hazards that might be discovered.
LO 1.4.1 Describe the "Hierarchy of Controls" to develop preventive measures.
LO 1.5.1 Discuss how to write a step-by-step safe job procedure.
LO 1.6.1 Describe methods to help improve the JHA process.
LO 1.6.2 Describe how the JHA may be used as an effective training tool.

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