OSHA Job Safety Analysis

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration defines job safety analysis as "a technique that focuses on job tasks as a way to identify hazards before they occur." Identifying hazards can reduce or eliminate them.

Goals

• OSHA says the goals for job safety analysis include identifying what can go wrong in a workplace, how those problems arise, contributing factors, likeliness of the situation and the resulting consequences. Identifying these factors helps target hazard triggers and prevents them.

Review

• Employees review a job hazard analysis to determine methods to reduce risks and to change procedures for completing tasks safely, thereby avoiding hazards. Periodic reviews of a job hazard analysis ensure that an analysis remains current, and any updates or previously unidentified hazards are incorporated

Partnerships

• The OSHA's Strategic Partnership Program consists of voluntary alliances between businesses and governments to improve workplace safety. All partners in an OSPP alliance recognize the efforts to eliminate hazards to create the safest workplace possible by building relationships between employers and employees.