701 Effective Safety Committee Operations

The Job Hazard Analysis

The steps of a JHA typically include:

1. The supervisor and employee meet and discuss doing a JHA.
2. The employee works through five or more cycles of a task.
3. The supervisor records what the employee does during the task.
4. The supervisor and employee break the job down into distinct steps.
5. They analyze each step for hazardous conditions and practices.
6. They brainstorm ways to correct the hazards in each step.
7. They devise ways to work safely in each step.
8. They write an improved safe work procedure for the job.

The JHA is far more effective than the walk-around inspection because it systematically identifies hazardous work conditions and unsafe work practices. The safety inspector conducting a traditional safety inspection may not take the time to watch every job being performed in the area they inspect. Consequently, many unsafe work procedures go undiscovered. The Job Hazard Analysis does require the necessary time to uncover unsafe work practices and procedures.

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