Breaking Down the Job

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You ean break down every job into basie tasks or steps. To begin, list eaeh step in the order of oeeurrenee as you wateh the employee perform the job. No basie step should be omitted. Make sure you reeord enough information to deseribe eaeh aetion. Wlien this is eompleted, review the steps with the employee. 

You should be careful not to omit any steps. Care should be taken not to make the job hazards too detailed. Too much detail will make a JHA ineffective. Make sure that only safety steps are recorded. One of the common mistakes is to mix work elements with job hazards. A JHA is not intended to document work process instructions, although some people believe that they should be included. 

Talk to as many people as possible new, experienced, transferred, and temporary employees, managers, maintenance personnel, safety professionals, and so on. Common problems will soon become apparent. 

Not only will you base your decision on better information, but also people will react favorably at having been consulted. Discuss potential solutions with technical specialists and with employees. 

To do a job breakdown, select the right employee to observe. Choose an experienced, capable, and cooperative worker who is willing to share ideas. Explain the purpose and the benefits of the JSA to the employee. 

Observe the employee perform the job and write down the basic steps. You may want to videotape the employee performing the job so that the tape can be used for review in the futiure.To determine the basic steps, ask, What step starts the job then, What is the next basic step and so on. Completely describe each step. Any deviation from the regular procedure should be recorded, because it may be this irregular activity that leads to an accident. 

Number the job steps consecutively in the first column of the JSA. Each step should tell what is done, not how it is done. The wording for each step should begin with an action word such as insert, open, or weld. The action is completed by naming the item to which the action applies for example, insert board or weld joint. Be sure to include every step of the job from beginning to end.  

Task Description Existing and Potential Hazards Recommended Corrective Actions 

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Step 2 Break down the job under consideration into a number of tasks or steps. 

Step 2 Breaking down the job into a number of steps or tasks... 

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This section is used to break down the job steps into the individual Tasks. 

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Yes, the prosecution would have more to say. In many ways our job was only half done. There remained the task of breaking down the defendants testimony. For this purpose, we had saved some "hot" documents, and our investigators would search for other documents until the trial ended. 

Begin by acquiring a personal planner, such as a Day-Timer, or a personal digital assistant (PDA), such as the Palm Pilot III, V, or VII. Before actually starting your job search, make a list of everything you will need to accomplish to land a job. Break down the big task into lots of smaller ones, which are easier to accomplish. If you have to write or update your resume, add it to your list. If you need to buy outfits to wear to interviews, that too goes on your list. Once your list is complete, write down how long you think each task will take to accomplish. 

Supervisors and workers must be trained to both identify hazards in order to prevent accidents, and to identify existing and potential hazards that may prevail in the workplace. When looking at specific jobs, identify the hazards by breaking down the... 

Avoid the common errors of making the breakdown so detailed that an unnecessarily large number of steps result, or making it so general that basic steps are omitted. If a large number of steps result from the analysis (i.e., more than fifteen), consider breaking down that job into more than one JSA/JHA. 

Goldberg, Lee, and William Rabkin. Successful Television Writing. Hoboken, N.J. John Wiley Sons, 2003. A practical guide for aspiring television writers that breaks down the process of writing a successful proposal (spec script), developing a practiced, confident, and concise pitch, and handling all of the job-related pieces that come next. 

Analysis Analysis is the art of breaking down a job into its basic steps and their tasks and evaluating each step/ task for specific inherent hazards and associated risk. Each hazard or associated risk is evaluated for methods of control (avoidance, engineering controls, administrative practices, PPE, etc.) that are implemented as part of the standard operating procedures. 

The terms JHA (job hazard analysis) and JSA (job safety analysis) are different ways of describing the same process. That process involves breaking down a job into its smaller steps, identifying hazards, and implementing controls. No matter what you call the process, it is an important component of a safety and health program. 

The first step in making labor estimates is to break the job down into activities in a logical sequence. Example work order 123 Work description - Repair ball valve. Leaking. 

Liver s main job is to keep up the levels of blood glucose. To do this, it breaks down glycogen and turns on gluconeogenesis. The liver takes lactate and alanine from the circulation and through gluconeogenesis converts it into glucose. The ammonia from the alanine is pushed... 

The most important aspect of the job of the chemical analyst is to assure that the data and results that are reported are of the maximum possible quality. This means that the analyst must be able to recognize when the test instrument is breaking down and when a human error is suspected. The analyst must be as confident as he or she can be that the readout from an instrument does in fact indicate a true readout as much as is humanly possible. The analyst must be familiar with error analysis schemes that have been developed and be able to use them to the point where confidence and quality is assured. 

Several recombinant drugs treat inherited conditions by replacing missing or malfunctioning proteins. Several of these are enzymes, proteins that drive biochemical reactions. The body has many different enzyme proteins, each of which performs a specific job in the construction or breakdown of chemicals. Some inherited conditions are caused by a destructive buildup of substances, a buildup that occurs because of an error in the gene for a particular enzyme that breaks down that chemical. 

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