Job Safety Analysis JSA

This method is used to find and rectify potential hazards that are intrinsic to or inherent in a workplace. Normally, people such as the safety professional, supervisor, and worker participate in job safety analysis. The following five steps are associated with JSA [28]  

The degree of JSA success depends on the thoroughness exercised by the JSA team members during the analysis process. 

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In Chapter 4 we will diseuss the regulatory framework and analyti-eal tools to eonduet these assessments, sueh as JHA (job hazard analysis), job safety analysis (JSA), safety analysis reports, proeess hazard analysis (PHA), and job, task, and hazard analysis. The reader needs to understand that OSHAs view on physieal and ehemieal hazards is far reaehing, as stated in the HAZWOPER standard. Note the following examples. 

You may have heard other terms sueh as job safety analysis (JSA), aetivity hazard analysis (AHA), or task-speeifie hazards analysis (THA). No matter what you eall the term, a job hazard analysis (JHA) is a proeess that ean used to help develop safe work praetiees or proeedures. 

Job Safety Analysis (JSA)—procedure that systematically identifies (1) job steps, (2) specific hazards associated with each job step, and (3) safe job procedures associated with each step to minimize accident potential. Also called job hazard analysis. 

Job Safety Analysis (JSA) or Job Hazard Analysis (JHA), a systematic stndy of work procednres, is ntilized by those firms who desire to identify and control hazards before snch hazards resnlt in injury [p. 120]. 

Job Safety Analysis (JSA) is a formal method that can be used to identify, analyze, and record the steps of a job in order to identify the safety hazards and avoidance methods. Although this topic was already addressed in Chapter 4, it is important to restate the value of this tool here. JSAs are the perfect employee engagement tool with which to build safety awareness. Using a prescribed method and standard forms, work team members evaluate the very work they perform to identify any safety hazards. It is a safety kaizen activity. 

Job safety analysis (JSA) A job breakdown that gives a safe, efficient job procedure. 

Again, traditional occupational and industrial safety tools like job safety analysis (JSA) should also be used. 

The job safety analysis (JSA) has been a part of the industrial and occupational safety effort for many years. It is basically a method of developing job procedures that includes a systematic task analysis that examines each step of a job or task, the possible hazards associated with each step, and preventive or corrective actions required to ensure a safe operation. The technique may be appropriate to include in a life cycle system safety effort but has not traditionally been considered a system safety analysis. The JSA may be referred to as a job hazard analysis or job task analysis, even though some make distinctions between the approaches. 

A type of safety identification review that methodically analyzes the interactions between individuals and machines. It reviews the operation phase to operational phase, while considering the consequences of operator-system faults at each operating step within each phase. This analysis allows for the recognition of threats from equipment faults that may coexist with operator errors. It is considered similar to a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), but with increased emphasis on the steps in human procedures rather than viewing hardware exclusively. See also Failure Mode and Effects Anafysis (FMEA) Job Safety Analysis (JSA). 

The systematic identification and evaluation of the possible errors that may be made by individuals. Various analysis methods are used such as Task Analysis, Job Safety Analysis, and Root Cause Map. See also ATHEANA (A Teehnique for Human Error Analysis) Job Safety Analysis (JSA) Root Cause Map (RCM). 

Chapter 3 presents introductory aspects of safety and human factors. Chapter 4 is devoted to methods considered useful to perform patient safety analysis. These methods include failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA), fault tree analysis (FTA), root cause analysis (RCA), hazard and operability analysis (HAZOP), six sigma methodology, preliminary hazard analysis (PFfA), interface safety analysis (ISA), and job safety analysis (JSA). Patient safety basics are presented in Chapter 5. This chapter covers such topics as patient safety goals, causes of patient injuries, patient safety culture, factors contributing to pahent safety culture, safe practices for better health care, and patient safety indicators and their selection. 

Also, information on the use of job safety analysis (JSA) in Chapter 4 has been expanded in the second edition with practical examples provided to further emphasis the value and understanding of this analytical tool. While JSA has long been utilized in the industrial safety arena, it is not always used consistently or correctly. Since this analytical technique is so closely linked to those commonly used everyday in the practice of system safety, this subject should be clearly explained and imderstood... 

The job safety analysis (JSA) [also referred to as the job hazard analysis (JHA)], which is a more simplified form of task analysis, has been a longstanding tool for task and function analysis. JSA has been available and utilized in general industry for many years by the industrial safety community. However, many practitioners do not understand or are simply unfamiliar with the connection between the JSA and the system safety tasks of hazard identification and analysis. It has even been suggested by some in the profession that the JSA itself is a type of oversimplified system safety analysis and, if performed earlier in the job development phase, could be used as the basis of a preliminary hazard analysis for a specific task or set of tasks. However, because JSA is often (if improperly) used to analyze a function only after it has been implemented, much of the data is not factored into the system safety process. The primary purpose of the JSA is to uncover inherent or potential hazards that may be encountered in the work environment. This basic definition is not unlike that previously discussed regarding the various system safety analyses. The primary difference between the two is subtle but important and is found in the end-use purpose of the JSA. Once the job or task is completed, the JSA is usually used as an effective tool for training and orienting the new employee into the work environment. The JSA presents a verbal picture of a specific job. 

Safety is always an important part of job training and especially so in a chlor-alkali plant. Trainees should be encouraged to pay close attention to the safety aspects of design and operation. One method recommended by King [7] is the use of job safety analysis (JSA). This isaformalized procedure in which analysts list the sequence ofbasic steps involved in a given task, consider the potential accidents that can occur, and then develop strategies and techniques of prevention. The National Safety Council of the United States [8] has developed standardized forms for JSA. 

Job safety analysis (JSA) is technique to help identify what behaviors in an operation are safe and correct. It is a form of task analysis. Some call the procedure job hazard analysis. 

Dealing with these design problems requires analysis to identify the potential behaviors and errors in behaviors that can lead to accidents and injuries. Techniques to identify these behaviors include job safety analysis (JSA) or some derivative of it. There is a need to conduct tests of designs with users who represent the population of potential users. 

Job Safety Analysis (JSA) is an analytical tool that can improve a company s overall performance by identifying and correcting undesirable events that could result in accidents, illnesses, injuries, and reduced quality and production. It is an employer/employee participation program in which job activities are observed divided into individual steps discussed and recorded with the intent to identify, eliminate, or control undesirable events. 

It is worth noting again that developing job-specific behaviors is very similar to performing a job safety analysis (JSA) or job hazard analysis (JHA). JHAs and JSAs, however, are not normally written as operational definitions of behavior. It is suggested that organizations upgrade their JSAs to behavioral standards (Krause, 1997, p. 185). 

Job Safety Analysis (JSA) also called Hazard Risk Assessment should be conducted prior to any infrequent operating/maintenance procedures. If the risks were better understood the operator would have been better prepared. 

Do job observations result in new work practices, workplace design, training, retraining, and task analysis including Job Safety Analysis (JSA) or Safe Operating Procedure (SOP) ... 

The standard is somewhat confusing as to whether the hazards to be identified have to do with technical, process or occupational safety. The topic of Job Safety Analysis (JSA), which has mostly to do with occupational safety, is an integral part of the standard. Yet, RP 75 is fundamentally a management standard, so the focus of a hazards analysis should be on process safety issues and the avoidance of catastrophic events such as Deepwater Horizon. 

As discussed above, the Hazards Analysis section of the SEMS mle covers both process safety analysis and job safety analysis (JSA). 

Task Analysis An expansion of the Job Safety Analysis (JSA) method of identifying hazards associated with a given job or task. Differs from the JSA in its level of specific detail and consideration of the human interface in all aspects of the job performance. 

Changes to production methods, procedures, or production standards, shall be reviewed for safety to ensure that the associate performing the work is not placed at risk. Documents relative to those methods or procedures, such as Job Safety Analysis (JSA), shall be revised and communicated to affected associates. Tlie evaluation shall include an Industrial Hygiene review if chemicals are used and an Ergonomic Job Analysis (EJA) if production standards have been modified. 

The technique of job safety analysis (JSA) has evolved from the work study techniques known as method study and work measurement. 

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