TA-FL-01 · Flooring
Flooring - Master Task Analysis
All flooring works including covering removal, substrate preparation, grinding and polishing, screeding, carpet, vinyl, resilient and timber laying, coatings and demobilisation.
What you get
One editable Word document covering flooring - master task analysis for Flooring: the task broken into steps, the hazards at each step, the controls, and a 5 by 5 risk matrix with residual ratings. Site fields and a crew sign-on are built in.
A Task Analysis is also known as a JSA (Job Safety Analysis) or JSEA. It covers each step of the job, the hazards and the controls.
The steps and hazards it covers
| Step | Hazards |
|---|---|
| Plan, prepare and confirm competency | Workers without the required training, competence or authorisation performing the task - incidents arising from lack of skill, competency or authorityDefective or unsafe plant, powered equipment, leads or attachments failing in useWorking on other people's sites, occupied premises or around the public |
| Assess the existing floor and plan the job | Unknown existing floors containing asbestos disturbed unknowingly during preparation or removal - fibre releasePoor planning leading to inadequate ventilation, sequencing or area isolation |
| Remove existing floor coverings | Dust, strain and cuts stripping old coverings |
| Prepare and grind the substrate | Respirable crystalline silica dust from grinding concrete, screed and tile beds - silicosis |
| Mix and lay screeds and levelling compounds | Cement burns, dust when mixing and rapid-set time pressure |
| Apply adhesives, lay carpet, vinyl and resilient coverings | Solvent adhesive vapour causing intoxication and fire in sealed roomsKnife cuts, knee injuries and roll handling during carpet and vinyl laying |
| Sand and finish timber floors | Wood dust (carcinogenic) and dust-bag firesVapour ignition and isocyanate or epoxy sensitisation applying coatings |
| Construct raised and battened timber floors | Falls between joists and bearers, and nail gun injuries framing raised floors |
| Manage electrical safety and ergonomics throughout | Electric shock from machines and leads around wet grinding, slurry and washingCumulative knee and back damage from prolonged kneeling and repetitive laying |
| Clean up, demobilise and reinstate | Trip edges, slippery new surfaces and uncontrolled re-entry onto curing floors |
Each hazard comes with its control measures, an initial and residual risk rating and the person responsible, ready to check against your job.
Preview the first 6 pagesSee the layout, the work screening table and the sign-on block
Preview pages are watermarked. The highlighted fields are the ones you complete for your site. This is the Flooring Master; the task documents in the pack follow the same structure.
How to use it
Read it against the actual job. Delete the hazards that are not there, add the ones that are, fill the site fields, then brief the crew and get every name on the sign-on. A document nobody has read is a piece of paper. One the crew helped finish supports worker consultation and records the agreed work method. Engagement under HSWA ss58 to 59 is an ongoing process of seeking and considering workers’ views, so the signed page is evidence of part of it rather than the whole duty.
About Flooring Task Analysis
This is the Master for Flooring, covering the general activities within its stated scope. The trade covers floor covering removal, screeding and levelling, grinding and polishing, resilient and timber overlay, adhesives.
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Where it sits in the law
New Zealand does not require a document of this name. The duty is to manage risk so far as is reasonably practicable (HSWA s36) and to engage workers on it (ss58 to 59). Use a Task Analysis to plan the work, identify the hazards and communicate the controls to your crew. That is also how you evidence both duties.
WorkSafe names “a task analysis, safe work method statement (SWMS), job safety analysis or equivalent planning document” as the same thing done under different headings, and Site Safe titles one of its own SSSP forms “Task Analysis (TA) and Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS)”. So if the paperwork you have been sent asks for a TA, a SWMS or a JSA, this is the document it means, written to the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. Only the name changes; the hazards, controls and ratings are the same either way.
Where this sits in your SSSP
A Site-Specific Safety Plan (SSSP) covers the whole job: who is on site, how hazards get reported, what happens in an emergency. A Task Analysis covers one task inside it. They are not the same document. Site Safe’s SSSP pack runs to ten forms, and the Task Analysis is Form 10, filed behind the plan itself.
So a main contractor who asks which SSSP pack you are using, and then asks for a TA covering flooring - master task analysis, has asked you for two separate things. This is the second one. Keep it with your SSSP for the job and bring it to the pre-start briefing, because the value is in the crew having read it before the work starts.