GRM FRCV Dropped or Falling Objects

• Document No.

• Audit Title

• GRM

• Conducted on

  Date

• Prepared by

• Location
  Address

• Personnel

• Risk Scope:
  Dropped or falling objects may include tools, coal, rocks, equipment and other material. Objects may fall randomly or as a result of operational activities.
  The scope excludes objects, dropped or falling as a result of structural failure or as a result of lifting and crane activities. Verification of separation controls from geotechnical hazards for personnel and equipment (including CMW's in equipment cabins) is captured in 'BMA Material Risk Critical Control Verification - Fall of Ground - Ground Control System'.

• Control Objective:
  The prevention of items being dropped or falling from one level to another, and mitigation of impact/s if item is dropped.

Work fronts must be designed, installed, maintained and operated in accordance with relevant Australian Standards, OEM, legislative requirements to prevent items from falling from one level to another. The following procedures must be complied with: - GRM STD Working at Heights Standard - GRM STD Barricading Standard - GRM STD Scaffold and Ladders Standard

• Work area / equipment set-up prevents the fall of tools and materials, there is clear separation where there is a potential for dropped objects and interactions above and below are adequately managed.

• Select 3 active work fronts, and verify that:

• Are all potential hazards identified in the hazard assessment for the task? (i.e. BMA Safe, JSA, PTW)

• Have appropriate control been identified and implemented (including interactions with other work groups?)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have structures where material can fall down been controlled? Guarded, kickrail, mesh etc.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Verify toe board for scaffolds, work platforms, EWP's etc. are adequate:

• Are they 100mm (min) in height?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are they fixed to floor or posts?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is there a gap between toe board and floor max 10mm?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is task equipment / materials restrained and/or contained to prevent accidental drop?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is area free of prohibited items (Pinch Bars and Crow Bars without Collar or End Piece)?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is suitable housekeeping in place? (Storage of tooling and parts, away from the edge, in containers other storage container).

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Ensure active elevated work fronts where there is a potential for an object to fall have an appropriate drop zone in place.

• Dropped zones must be clear, controlled, allow for deflection, ratio for barricading (height versus extent of drop zones 3:1)

• Select 3 active work fronts, and verify that:

• Is the drop zone accounted for in the hazard assessment / PtW process (if applicable), and suitable controls implemented accounting for: type, location, time, potential for objects to fall from one level to another, other workers in the area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is there appropriate barricading / grid mesh in place to prevent items from being dropped through (particularly handrails / lift well at CPP, workplatforms, booms)?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Select 3 personnel:

• Do personnel have knowledge of hazard management with managing dropped objects?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Provide photo evidence to verify documentation.

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