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Job Safety Analysis
JSA 410
*Note: This document verifies the hazard assessment as required
by 29 CFR 1910.132(d) (2).
Cull Mail from Conveyor Belt
Location
Processing & Distribution Center
Portland, OR
Area: Western
Author
Name: Randy Walker
Title: PIT Instructor
Date: 07-31-2010
Sequence of Basic Steps
1. Ensure work area is clear of
obstacles and debris.
Job Description
Culling mail from conveyor belt.
Location Description
Processing and Distribution Center
Portland, OR
Local Reviewer
Name: Michael Robirds
Title: Supervisor
Date: 07-31-2010
Approval: Yes
Potential Hazards and Effects
Area Reviewer
Name: David Dixon
Title: Safety Office
Date: 07-31-2010
Approval: Yes
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Occupational
Codes
Required Personal Protective Equipment
Appropriate clothing and footwear required.
No loose clothing, jewelry, ties or hair near or
around moving equipment.
Gloves are recommended to avoid cuts.
Safe Work Practices
1.1. Hazard: Strapping, plastic, strings, rubber bands,
paper and debris.
Effect: Slips, trips and falls. Worker falls and is injured
when striking floor, equipment or other object.
1.1. Maintain good housekeeping practices.
Notify supervisor if area and/or path needs attention from custodial or
maintenance staff.
1.2. Hazard: Path to and from work area is obstructed.
Pedestrians, moving equipment and/or powered
industrial vehicles obstruct path.
Effect: Worker injured by striking into and/or against
obstacle, moving equipment, pedestrians and/or vehicles.
1.2. Ensure path to work area is unobstructed.
Maintain pathways and aisles clear of obstacles and debris.
Be alert to moving equipment, pedestrians and powered industrial
vehicles.
Monitor overhead mirrors, if available, for obstructions to paths.
1.3. Ensure path is clear of all unsecured obstacles:
1.3. Hazard: Work area has unsecured floor obstacles,
e.g. mats, tiles and rugs.
Effect: Worker slips on unsecured obstacle stopping
forward motion. Worker suffers strain injuries to arms,
shoulders and back.
2. Stage equipment, mail and
workers.
Refer to equipment JSA for safe
work practices.
Titles of Employees Performing
the Job
Clerk
Mail Handler
2.1. Hazard: Worker unfamiliar or untrained with the
specific culling belt operation or controls.
Employee not trained in the proper use of equipment and
dumper.
Effect: Injury to employee from electrical shock,
equipment usage or operational procedures.
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Reposition floor mats away from path
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Be alert to unsecured tiles, rugs etc.
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Do not push equipment over unsecured floor obstacles
2.1. Be familiar with proper use of equipment.
Be trained on correct use of electrical equipment and safe work
methods.
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3. Alert workers of dumper and
conveyor start-up.
Raise dumper.
Dump mail onto conveyor.
2.2. Hazard: Damaged/defective equipment.
Effect: Worker injured when equipment fails; brake
damaged; frame broken, etc.
2.2. Examine equipment prior to use.
Red Tag and remove from service all damaged/defective equipment.
3.1. Hazard: Electrical shock from conveyor controls;
falling mail. Worker
Effect: Injuries due to shock; mailing falling onto
conveyor belt may strike worker, equipment or object.
Worker struck by dumper.
3.1. Be alert to electrical controls.
Notify Maintenance of defective equipment, frayed wires, leaking
controls.
Be alert to falling mail, step away from direction of mail.
Ensure workers are alert to conveyor start-up and dumper operation.
3.2. Do not stand, sit or walk on conveyor.
3.2. Hazard: Walking, standing, sitting on conveyor belt.
Effect: Worker injured from moving parts of conveyor;
worker falls, striking floor, equipment or other object.
4. Cull mail from the conveyor
belt.
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Be alert to mail
containing biological
specimens, blood and
body fluids, infectious
materials and sharps
(needles).
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Remove unbroken
biological mail pieces
from the mail stream.
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Place biological mail
pieces in designated
Haz-Mat container.
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Contact Haz-Mat for all
broken biological mail
pieces and/or unknown
spills and leaks.
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3.3. Hazard: Worker untrained in dumper operation and
safety features including emergency stops.
Effect: Worker(s) injured when dumper operated
improperly, i.e. too fast.
3.3. Ensure worker is trained in safe dumper operation including all
safety features and devices.
4.1. Hazard: Sharp paper edges, staples, clips on mail
pieces.
Effect: Cuts to hands and arms from mail and abrasion
injuries from conveyor belt.
4.1. Be alert when handling the mail.
Ensure gloves are in good condition.
Remove Target Mail and place it in appropriate container.
4.2. Hazard: Contamination from sharps, hazardous
materials or clinical specimens.
Effect: Worker infected from exposure to biological
materials.
4.4. Hazard: Reaching, lifting, and bending across
conveyor cull belt.
Effect: Strain injuries to hands, shoulders neck and back.
4.2. Be alert to odd shaped mail pieces.
Use caution when removing mail from the culling belt which may be
damaged, leaking or containing sharps, clinical specimens or
hazardous materials.
Place unbroken/undamaged biological mail pieces in designated HazMat container.
If mail piece is broken, or unknown materials spills or leaks from mail
piece, isolate mail piece, contact Haz-Mat and supervisor.
Do not load, process or excessively handle Haz-Mat mail pieces.
Follow exposure control instructions.
4.3. Routinely shift weight to reduce fatigue.
Wear appropriate footwear.
4.4. No not use excessive stretch/reach to access mail.
Use retrieving tool, hook or other device to access mail out of safe
reach.
4.5. Hazard: Facing mail-continuously, intermittently.
Effect: Strain injuries to hands, wrists, arms, neck
shoulders and back.
4.5. Do not use excessive movement to face mail.
Use breaks, stretching and other methods to provide relief from
continuous facing.
4.3. Hazard: Continuous standing.
Effect: Strain injuries to feet, legs and back. Fatigue.
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Conveyor belts with
overhead chutes,
overhanging
equipment.
5. Place mail into equipment.
Refer to equipment JSA for safe
work practices.
4.6. Hazard: Overloaded conveyor belt.
Effect: Mail falls from conveyor, striking worker,
equipment or other object. Mail strikes surrounding
workers.
4.6. Do not overload conveyor.
Be alert to mail, load and/or objects on conveyor.
Notify surrounding workers of falling mail.
4.7. Hazard: Tossing mail over cull belt into container,
sack, equipment, etc.
Effect: Strain injuries to hands, arms, shoulders and
back. Mail misses and strikes worker, equipment or other
object.
4.7. Do not use excessive force to toss mail into containers/equipment.
Be alert to other workers, whether in the unit or walking through work
area.
4.8. Hazard: Overhead chutes depositing mail onto
conveyor.
Effect: Mail strikes worker, equipment or other object.
Worker strikes chute, injuries to head and face.
5.1. Hazard: Turning, bending, lifting, twisting actions
when moving mail from cull belt to equipment.
Effect: Strain injuries to worker when bending, lifting, and
twisting.
4.8. Be alert when leaning over cull belt. Do not lean into equipment.
Do not lean directly under chute.
Use broom or other device to retrieve mail.
5.2. Hazard: Grasping mail. Overloading mail container.
Effect: Repetition injuries; strains to fingers, hands,
wrists and arms. Strain injuries from overloaded/too
heavy mail container.
5.2. Grasp only comfortable amount of mail.
Do not over load/over fill mail container.
Ergonomic Risk Assessment
Health Risk Assessment Code
3-Moderate
Qualitative/Quantitative Exposure Assessment Data NA
Publication 129 Safety Talks
Section 5 Slips, Trips and Falls
Section 7 Housekeeping
Section 8 Lifting and Handling
Section 9 Personal Protective equipment
Section 10 Machinery, Tools and Ladders (Lockout/Tag Out, Conveyor, etc)
Section 13 Miscellaneous Safety (Inattention, Teamwork, etc).
Section 16 Hazardous Materials Handling (MSDS, etc)
Section 18 Local Safety and Health Program
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5.1. Use proper lifting techniques when removing the mail.
Do not bend or twist at the waist, turn the whole body.
Do not grasp, lift or handle mail which is too heavy or awkward.
Safety Risk Assessment
4-Minor
3-Moderate
Supporting Postal Service Policy Documents
EL-814
PO 502
EL-801
PS 4589
Postal Employee’s Guide to Safety
Container Methods Manual
Supervisor’s Safety Handbook
Observation of Work Practices-General
Attributions
http://blue.usps.gov/cpim/
http://safetytoolkit.usps.gov/
http://www.osha.gov/
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