Identifying and evaluating the risk related to the warehousing job using the JSA method in a waste servicecompany in Ahvaz city

Background: Every day, many incidents occur in work environments that cause death and injury. These incidentsare often due to lack of recognition of potential risks and proper training of workers. Therefore ,by identifying andevaluating risks of the work environment can prevent many incidents and calculated their risk number andprovided the required controls.Methods: JSA method is a systematic way, to identify hazard and assessing their risks also to provide appropriatecontrol. In this method, each stage of the job is carefully examined. The potential risks of each identification stepare evaluated and the best control solution is provided to eliminate or reduce the risks. The current descriptivecross-sectional study was conducted in a waste collection service company in Ahvaz city. The most important toolused in conducting Job Safe Analysis(JSA) is risk checklists. In this sense first, the warehousing job was selected. Inthe next step, system risks were identified and the level and number of risks were calculated.Results: In the present study a total of ۶۸ risks were identified. The results showed that the level of unacceptablerisk was ۱۳.۲۳% and the level of unfavorable risk was ۱.۴۷%, Acceptable or in need of revision۸.۸۲% , partial۷۶.۴۷% respectively.Conclusion: To eliminate or reduce the level of these risks, control solutions were proposed. the most importantcontrol solutions provided were, the training of workers, raising their awareness of risks and continuousmonitoring of their work.

کلیدواژه ها:

Risk assessment ، JSA ، Risk ، Ahwaz