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Toolbox Meeting - 20 May 2021
May 20, 2021
Crushing Hazards
In any workplace it is important to mitigate the risk of crushing hazards,
Commonly found crushing hazards are:
- falling product, machinery, forklifts and placing boxes onto pallets.
Common injuries associated with risk:
- crushed finger, crushed foot resulting in bruising or swelling.
- more servere injuries could be broken bones, or serious head injury from falling boxes.
In the situation of falling product, always be observant of surrounding products that have the potential to fall. Early signs of products that look unstable are products hanging over an edge, unbalanced product, or product that moves with indirect surrounding movements (Ie. a forklift removing a pallet from the container, shaking stacked boxes).
If you notice a potential hazard, step back and take 5 to evaluate the hazard. If the product can be safely removed to mitigate the falling risk altogether then do so. If the hazard can not be safely removed, freeze the scene and tell the site supervisor immediately.
Never attempt to catch falling boxes or falling product. Always make moving out of the way a priority. Product can be replaced, you can not.
All near misses or potential hazards should be reported immediately.
Reporting near misses, incidents and hazards
How to manage falling object risk whilst container devanning