“Job Safety Analysis is a preventive risk management and control tool whose purpose is to identify hazards, assess risks and establish control measures”
What is a Job Safety Analysis?
Peruvian regulations use several acronyms for this tool: ATS (Análisis de Trabajo Seguro, Job Safety Analysis) is defined in the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations for the Construction Sector (Supreme Decree 011-2019-TR) and in the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations for Mining (Supreme Decree 024-2016-EM), while the acronym AST (Análisis de Seguridad en el Trabajo, Work Safety Analysis) appears in Standard G.050 Safety during Construction, part of Peru’s National Building Regulations (RNE).
What is a Job Safety Analysis (ATS)?
The ATS is a preventive risk management and control tool used in many industries, such as Mining, Construction and Oil and Gas, as well as in other sectors that may define it according to their own management standards. Its main purpose is to identify hazards, assess the risks involved in the activity and establish preventive measures to ensure workers’ safety in their daily tasks.
What do the legal standards say about the ATS?
Supreme Decree 024-2016-EM requires an ATS for non-routine activities that are not identified in the baseline IPERC (Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment and Controls) and that do not have a Written Safe Work Procedure (PETS). This means that an ATS must be prepared for any non-routine task, using the format in ANNEX No. 11 of that decree as a reference.
Supreme Decree 011-2019-TR establishes the ATS as an essential management tool. Before starting any activity, the foreman, or whoever acts in that role, must prepare the ATS together with the workers involved. This analysis must take the IPERC results into account, which ensures a thorough risk assessment.
How do you carry out an ATS?
Follow these 4 steps:
Step 1: Define the job to be analyzed
Determine the scope and objectives of the job and review the work method. It must include the activity to be analyzed, the location, and the tools and equipment required.
Step 2: Break the job down into individual steps or tasks
Break the task down into basic steps, describing what will be done and in what sequence. Each step description should state what will be done, without referring to how it will be done or who will do it.
Step 3: Identify the hazards and potential incidents in each step or task
Review each step to identify the hazards that may be present as a result of the task itself or of the work environment. At the same time, consider any deviation from the expected circumstances that could release or expose the risk, and the potential incident that could result.
Step 4: Define controls and preventive measures
First, controls and preventive measures must be developed for the whole task and the risks involved. The person responsible for each control or preventive measure must be clearly defined. Where a name cannot be specified, the job title of the person responsible must be defined.
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