Job safety analysis (JSA) steps poster

A job safety analysis (JSA), also called a job hazard analysis (JHA), breaks a job into its steps, finds the hazards in each step and sets a control for each hazard before anyone is hurt. This poster sets out six steps based on OSHA's guide to job hazard analysis: pick the job, break it into steps, find the hazards, set the controls using the hierarchy of controls, write it down and train, and review it whenever the job changes.

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The words on the poster

Job safety analysis

Six steps to find the hazards in each step of a job and control them before anyone is hurt.

Pick the job Injuries, near misses or severe possible harm first. Then new jobs.
Break it into steps Watch the job. List the steps in order, each starting with a verb.
Find the hazards in each step What could go wrong? Struck by, caught in, falls, energy.
Set a control for each hazard Eliminate or substitute first, then guards, then procedures, then PPE.
Write it down and train The people who do the job help write it.
Review it After an incident, when the job changes, and on a set date.

Do it with the people who do the job. They know the shortcuts and the hazards nobody wrote down.

Based on OSHA 3071, Job Hazard Analysis.

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How to use it

Putting the Job safety analysis (JSA) steps poster to work

1
Post it where JSAs are written and reviewed: the safety office, the maintenance shop, the team area.
2
Use it to train the people who do the job to write the JSA with you, not to sign one someone else wrote.
3
Start with the jobs with the most injuries and near misses, and with new or changed jobs.
4
Pair it with the free JSA template and the hierarchy of controls poster.

Where the poster goes and how to teach with it, in the order to try them.

Which size to print

24 x 36 in or A2: a main wall or team board, read from a few metres away.
18 x 24 in or A3: a station or notice board. The A3 file also fits 11 x 17 in paper.
Letter or A4: a clipboard, binder or handout, on any office printer.

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