📋 Job Safety Analysis (JSA)

Break Down the Job. Identify the Hazards. Control the Risk.

The Job Safety Analysis (JSA) Course is designed to provide workers, supervisors, engineers, and safety professionals with practical skills to systematically identify hazards associated with individual job tasks and establish appropriate control measures before work begins.

Participants learn how to break a job into manageable steps, identify potential hazards at each stage, assess the associated risks, determine suitable controls, and communicate the safe work method to everyone involved. Through practical exercises, workplace scenarios, and real-life case studies, participants develop a proactive approach to preventing incidents.

🔍 What You’ll Learn

📋 Job Breakdown

Learn how to divide a job into logical and manageable steps so that hazards can be identified effectively.

⚠️ Hazard Identification

Recognise potential hazards associated with people, equipment, materials, environment, and work methods.

📊 Risk Assessment

Understand how to evaluate the likelihood and potential consequences of identified hazards.

🛡️ Risk Controls

Learn how to select effective control measures using the hierarchy of controls.

👷 Worker Involvement

Understand how involving the people performing the job can improve hazard identification and practical risk controls.

🗣️ JSA Communication

Learn how to communicate the completed JSA to the work team through toolbox talks and pre-job discussions.

🛡️ Key Training Areas

Participants are introduced to:

• 📋 JSA fundamentals

• 🔍 Job-step identification

• ⚠️ Hazard identification

• 📊 Risk assessment

• 🛡️ Hierarchy of controls

• ⚙️ Equipment and machinery hazards

• ⚡ Electrical hazards

• 🔥 Fire and hot-work hazards

• 🧪 Chemical hazards

• 🏗️ Work-at-height hazards

• 🏋️ Manual handling hazards

• 🚧 Environmental hazards

• 🦺 PPE selection

• 🚨 Emergency controls

• 👥 Worker participation

• 🗣️ Toolbox talks

• 📝 JSA documentation

• 🔄 Review and revision

🔧 Practical JSA Training

From Job Description to Safe Work Method

Participants can gain practical exposure to:

01 — SELECT THE JOB
Identify a task or activity that requires detailed safety analysis.

02 — BREAK DOWN THE TASK
Divide the job into logical steps without making the analysis unnecessarily complex.

03 — IDENTIFY HAZARDS
Determine what could go wrong at each step and who could be affected.

04 — ASSESS THE RISK
Evaluate the potential risk associated with each identified hazard.

05 — SELECT CONTROLS
Determine appropriate measures to eliminate or reduce the risk.

06 — DOCUMENT THE JSA
Record the job steps, hazards, controls, responsible persons, and relevant requirements.

07 — COMMUNICATE
Discuss the JSA with everyone involved before work begins.

08 — REVIEW
Update the JSA when the task, equipment, environment, or conditions change.

📊 JSA Risk Assessment

Understand the Risk Before Starting the Work

Participants learn to consider:

🔍 HAZARD
What could cause harm?

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👥 EXPOSURE
Who could be affected?

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📈 LIKELIHOOD
How likely is the event to occur?

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💥 CONSEQUENCE
How serious could the outcome be?

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🛡️ CONTROL
What can be done to eliminate or reduce the risk?

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🔄 REVIEW
Are the controls effective and still appropriate?

🛡️ Hierarchy of Controls

Choose the Strongest Practical Control

Participants learn how JSA controls can be developed using:

🚫 01 — ELIMINATION
Remove the hazard completely where reasonably practicable.

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🔄 02 — SUBSTITUTION
Replace the hazardous material, process, or method with a safer alternative.

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⚙️ 03 — ENGINEERING CONTROLS
Use physical or technical measures to separate workers from hazards.

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📋 04 — ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROLS
Use procedures, training, supervision, scheduling, signage, and safe work practices.

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🦺 05 — PPE
Use suitable personal protective equipment for remaining risks.

A Good JSA Does More Than Identify the Hazard — It Defines How the Hazard Will Be Controlled.

📝 Example JSA Structure

JOB → STEP → HAZARD → RISK → CONTROL

A typical JSA can be structured around:

📋 Job Activity
What work is being performed?

01 — Job Step
What happens first?

⚠️ Hazard
What could cause harm?

📊 Risk
What could happen and how serious could it be?

🛡️ Control Measure
What needs to be done to prevent or reduce the risk?

👷 Responsible Person
Who is responsible for implementing or monitoring the control?

🔄 Review
When should the JSA be reviewed or revised?

🏗️ Practical Case Studies

Participants can work through realistic scenarios such as:

🔥 Hot Work

Identify fire, heat, sparks, gas, and surrounding combustible-material hazards.

🪜 Work at Height

Identify fall hazards, access issues, dropped objects, and rescue requirements.

🏗️ Lifting Operations

Identify load, rigging, crane, suspended-load, and exclusion-zone hazards.

⚙️ Machinery Maintenance

Identify moving parts, stored energy, electrical hazards, and unexpected start-up risks.

🧪 Chemical Handling

Identify exposure, storage, spill, ventilation, and PPE requirements.

🕳️ Excavation Work

Identify collapse, access, falling objects, underground services, and environmental hazards.

🗣️ JSA & Toolbox Talk

A JSA Is Only Effective When the Team Understands It.

Participants learn how to communicate JSA requirements through:

📢 PRE-JOB BRIEFING
Explain the task and planned work method.

⚠️ DISCUSS HAZARDS
Review the main risks associated with each job step.

🛡️ EXPLAIN CONTROLS
Make sure workers understand how risks will be controlled.

❓ ENCOURAGE QUESTIONS
Allow workers to raise concerns or suggest improvements.

✍️ CONFIRM UNDERSTANDING
Ensure the team understands the agreed safe work method.

🔄 REVIEW DURING WORK
Stop and reassess when conditions change.

🚨 When Should a JSA Be Reviewed?

A JSA Should Change When the Job Changes.

Review or reassess the JSA when there is:

• A change in work method

• New equipment or machinery

• Different materials or chemicals

• Change in workplace conditions

• New personnel or contractors

• Unexpected hazards

• An incident or near miss

• Significant environmental changes

• New information about the task

• Evidence that existing controls are ineffective

No Change Should Go Unnoticed.

🎯 Learning Outcomes

After completing the course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the purpose and principles of Job Safety Analysis.

• Break a job into logical task steps.

• Identify hazards associated with individual job steps.

• Assess risks associated with identified hazards.

• Apply the hierarchy of controls.

• Develop practical control measures.

• Understand the role of workers in preparing a JSA.

• Prepare and document a basic JSA.

• Communicate JSA requirements through toolbox talks.

• Recognise when a JSA needs to be reviewed or revised.

• Identify changes that may introduce new hazards.

• Support safer work planning and execution.

• Contribute to proactive incident prevention.

👷 Who Can Attend?

This course is suitable for:

Safety Officers • HSE Professionals • Site Supervisors • Engineers • Foremen • Team Leaders • Managers • Maintenance Personnel • Construction Workers • Production Supervisors • Contractors • Safety Committee Members • Workers Involved in High-Risk Activities

🧠 Training Approach

Learn → Break Down → Identify → Assess → Control → Communicate → Review

The course combines:

📚 Classroom Learning
Fundamental JSA principles and risk-management concepts.

🔍 Hazard Identification Exercises
Practical identification of hazards within realistic job scenarios.

📋 JSA Preparation
Participants develop sample JSAs based on selected work activities.

🗣️ Toolbox Talk Practice
Learn how to communicate JSA findings to work teams.

🏗️ Case Studies
Analyse real-world situations and identify better controls.

🔄 Review Exercises
Learn how to update a JSA when conditions change.

🔄 JSA Safety Cycle

Plan the Job Before the Job Starts

📋 01 — SELECT
Choose the job or activity to be analysed.

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🔨 02 — BREAK DOWN
Divide the job into logical steps.

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🔍 03 — IDENTIFY
Find hazards associated with each step.

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📊 04 — ASSESS
Evaluate the associated risks.

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🛡️ 05 — CONTROL
Select appropriate control measures.

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📝 06 — DOCUMENT
Record the JSA clearly and accurately.

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🗣️ 07 — COMMUNICATE
Discuss the JSA with everyone involved.

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👀 08 — MONITOR
Check that controls are being followed.

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🔄 09 — REVIEW
Update the JSA whenever the job or conditions change.

🏆 Key Benefits

For Workers

Improve hazard awareness and understand how to work safely through each stage of a task.

For Supervisors

Strengthen job planning, risk control, team communication, and safety monitoring.

For Safety Professionals

Develop a structured approach to task-level hazard identification and risk management.

For Organisations

Support proactive risk management, improve safety communication, and help prevent incidents before they occur.

⭐ Why JSA Training Matters

Many workplace incidents occur because hazards are not identified or controlled before a task begins.

A well-prepared JSA helps teams understand the job, recognise hazards, establish controls, communicate responsibilities, and respond when conditions change.

Don’t Wait for an Incident to Find the Hazard. Find It Before the Job Begins.

📋 Job Safety Analysis (JSA)

Break Down the Job. Control the Risk. Protect the Team.

Develop the practical skills required to analyse jobs, identify hazards, establish effective controls, and communicate safe work practices before work begins.