Safety Alert
Failure To Revise Job Safety Analysis Leads To Injury
Failure To Revise Job Safety Analysis Leads To Injury
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 418
- Control of WorkHuman Factors
- Line of fireRisk management
- Inspection and maintenanceLifting operations
- Crane
- Competence and trainingJob safety analysisSafety communicationStop-work authority
- Upstream oil and gas
Summary
A crew removing a heater tube added handrail removal without revising its job safety analysis. Crane tension and a prybar freed the handrail, which struck a worker and caused facial fractures. The alert identifies planning, training and policy failures, and recommends considering training programmes, discussing changed duties and using stop-work authority.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Risk management; risk evaluation.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Lifting operations; load lifting; hoisting.
Classifications: Crane; cranes.
Classifications: Competence and training; competency assurance; safety training.
Classifications: Job safety analysis; JSA; job hazard analysis; JHA.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Stop-work authority; stop work; stop-work intervention.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Summary
The alert highlights how failing to revise a job safety analysis can lead to injury.
BSEE Safety Alert 418. Themes: control of work, human factors.