Timber Processing Industry - Guide to Health and Safety in the
The information in these guidelines will help you to identify hazards in your workplace and give you ideas on how to keep your staff and visitors safe at all times. Specifically, these guidelines help you to:
- identify places where injury or harm could occur
- work out how likely it is that injury or harm will happen
- put in place measures to protect your workers and your workplace.
Following these guidelines will give your staff confidence to carry out their work quickly and efficiently and save you the costs of an unsafe workplace.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Key terms explained
Section One: Safe access
1. 1 Making workplace access safe
What is safe access?
What the law says
1. 2 Identifying hazards
Looking for risks
Common hazards to check for
1. 3 Assessing access hazards
1. 4 Good practice for safe access
Access to your site
Common areas
Conveyors
Surfaces
Work at heights
Ladders
Fencing
Stairs
Handrails
Forklift cages
Tarping of timber trucks
Timber stacking
Isolation and lockout
Confined spaces
Signage
Lighting
Personal protective equipment
Section Two: Manual handling
2. 1 Making manual handling safe
What is manual handling?
2. 2 Identifying hazards
List the jobs and tasks
Identifying hazardous manual handling
Checklist for hazardous jobs and tasks
Common hazards to check for
2. 3 Assessing manual handling hazards
Things to think about
Factors that increase the risk
Scoring the risk
2. 4 Good practice for manual handling
Worksurface heights
Table tasks - workspace design
Handling heavy timber
Handling small-sized timber
Handling of tooling for woodworking machines
Handling panel products
2. 5 Further reading
Section Three: Lockout
3. 1 Locking out machinery
What is lockout?
What the law says
3. 2 Identifying hazards
Do you need a lockout?
3. 3 Assessing lockout hazards
3. 4 Good practice for lockout
Five steps to lockout
Working on energised equipment
Group lockout procedure
Lockouts across shifts
Releasing machines from lockout
Other hazards
3. 5 Workplace responsibilities for lockout
Employer responsibilities
Supervisor responsibilities
Employee responsibilities
3. 6 Further reading
Section Four: Machine guarding
4. 1 Making machine operations safe
What is machine guarding?
What the law says
Sharing responsibility
4. 2 Identifying hazards
Looking for risks
Common hazards to check for
4. 3 Assessing machine hazards
Risk assessment process
4. 4 Good practice for machine guarding
Using machine guards
Administrative controls
4. 5 Machine operating checklist
Section Five: Further information
5. 1 Further Information
