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Job Safety Analysis: A Basic Overview
Watch a basic introduction to job safety analysis (JSA), then explore Todd Jerome Jenkins’s companion guide to conducting a job safety analysis.
By Todd Jerome Jenkins, MS, CSP · Free to watch · No account required
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Job safety analysis · 6:32
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Read the companion resource: How to Conduct a Job Safety Analysis
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Companion reading
Turn the task sequence into a usable work plan
Choose a specific job and involve the people who perform it. Observe the sequence where it happens, including preparation, normal work, interruptions and cleanup. Steps should be detailed enough to reveal a hazard without turning every small movement into a separate instruction.
For each step, describe the potential event, who could be exposed and the conditions that make it possible. Consider equipment, material movement, access, energy, exposures and adjacent work. Then select controls using the hierarchy and identify who will put each arrangement in place and check it.
Use the analysis in the pre-task discussion. Ask the crew to compare the planned sequence with today’s conditions and explain when the plan must be revisited. The finished sheet supports that conversation; the signature is not a substitute for verified controls. Review the analysis after changes, incidents or worker feedback reveal a gap.
Before the task
- Walk through preparation, execution and cleanup.
- Describe a credible event for each hazard.
- Assign controls, verification and a change-review trigger.
Fictional work example
A delivery analysis covers unloading but omits the driver’s access to remove restraints. The missed step can put the driver next to an unstable load before the planned unloading controls begin.
Consider: What should the crew add to the analysis?
Compare your reasoning
Include the restraint-removal step, load-stability conditions and safe access arrangement, then verify the sequence and responsibility before anyone releases the restraints.
Sources and further reading
Original companion notes and fictional examples · Updated . These notes support study; apply the actual workplace procedures and requirements. Government sources retain their own status and do not endorse this material.