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SECTION H STEP BY STEP
Step Task / Issue Possible Hazard Consequence Risk Existing Safeguard ( Controls) Recommended safeguards to Risk
No. Rating control risks rating
after
control
1 Draw Hilti gun from store  Unauthorized persons  Injuries 21 EX  Only employees with operator  Storeman to ensure that 10 M
drawing Hiltigun  Fatalities certificate or operator card to only authorized employees
 theft draw hilti gun form store operate Powder Actuated
tools are drawing tools
from store
2 Draw nails and Cartridges  Unauthorized persons  Injuries 21 EX  Only employees with operator  Storeman to ensure that 10M
from store drawing Cartridges and nails  Fatalities certificate or operator card to only authorized employees
 theft draw hilti cartridges from store operate Powder Actuated
tools are drawing tools
from store
3 Inspect Hilti gun  Damages  Injuries 21 EX  Before any operating of a Hilti  All operators receives a 10M
 Hilti gun dirty  Fatalities gun operator to inspect hilti gun course from hilti in the safe
 Machine gets jammed thoroughly operation of using a hilti
 Plungers and parts damaged o Plungers gun
o Seals  All operators receives
o Cartridge holder training on how to inspect
o Nail holder a hilti gun
o Trigger mechanism  All operators receives
o Nozzle training on the
o Handles maintenance of a hilti gun
 Ensure hilti is not loaded
before inspecting hilti gun

4 Identify work to be done and  Working in wrong area  Loss of time 8M  Foreman to identify work to be  Foreman to do planning 3L
check area where work is to  Work to be done not  Property done and inspect area
be done identified damage  Foreman to give clear instructions  Competent supervision is
 Damage to property to hilti gun operator required at all times

5 Working together with other  Nails shooting Right through  Injuries 21 EX  Operator to place warning signs  Foreman to give operator 10m
trades mortar and bricks  Damage that hilty gun is in operation assistance while hilti gun is
 Bricks splitting  Fatalities  Operator to clear all other trades in operation to keep area
 Noise in close proximity including above clear of pedestrians and
 Particles ricocheting and below operator other bystanders
 Nails hitting people working  Competent operator to be used  Required PPE to wear
in close proximity  Operator to use Correct strength o Hard hat

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nails are not driven in with goggles
excessive force and only with o Earplugs
force required o Overalls
o Safety boots
 Hilti operation board
to be placed
 Area to be
barricaded
 Hilti gun accidentally going  Injuries 21 Ex  Hilti guns are so designed that  Hilti has a double safety 10M
off  Fatalities they can not accidentally go off procedure built in
 Hilti gun must be pressed with
force against an object and trigger
pulled before it will go off
 Hilti gun must be held at exactly
90 degrees before hilti gun goes
off
 Working at heights with hilti  Damage to 21 EX  rope to be tied around hitli gun  All employees working at 10M
gun hilti gun and structure to prevent hilti gun height to undergo working
 Hilti gun falling  Injuries to from falling to the ground at height training
 Employee falling employee  employee to wear Safety Harness  Foreman to ensure that
 fatality Whilst working on heights higher hilti operator is tied off at
than 1.5m all times
6 Cleaning of Hilti gun  Incompetent operator  Injuries to 21EX  Remove ammunition  All hilti operators undergo 10m
 Not knowing how to strip hilti employee  Remove nails a training session with Hilti
gun  Possible  Competent employee to strip and South Africa on site
 Not properly cleaned fatalities clean and oil Hilti gun  In the safe use and
 Machine not made safe prior  Damage to  Pistons and seals and chambers cleaning of the hilti gun
to cleaning machine to be properly clean
7 Storage of Hilti gun  Theft of machine  Injuries 21 EX  Hilti gun and ammunition must be  Storeman to ensure that 10M
 Theft of ammunition  Fatalities stored separately proper stock control is held
 Uncontrolled use of  Loss  Both hilti gun and ammunition at all times
amunition  must be locked away when not in  Storeman to ensure that
use ammunition and Hilti gun
 Hilti gun must be placed in box are stored separately
when not in use  Operator to ensure that he
 When hilti gun is stored on site returns all used and unused
hilti gun and ammunition to be cartridges to the store
stored inside the storage box and
be under constant surveylance at
all times
 Ammunition to be signed out in a

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 All unused and used cartridges to
be returned to store after use all
unused cartridges to be signed
back into stock

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