TA-IS-10 · Interior Systems
Setting, Jointing and Sanding Task Analysis
Setting and jointing plasterboard including mixing compounds, taping, coating and sanding to the specified level of finish.
What you get
One editable Word document covering setting, jointing and sanding for Interior Systems: 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 use |
| Mix and apply compounds | Skin and eye contact with stopping compounds and airborne powder when mixing - dermatitis and irritation |
| Sand joints | Airborne dust from sanding stopping compounds - respiratory irritation and long-term respiratory illness |
| Coat and sand at height | Overreaching and falls from platforms during ceiling jointing and sanding - serious fall injuries |
| Work from podiums and stilts | Jointing and coating from stilts - falls and ankle injuries on cluttered floors |
| Use taping and finishing tools | Automatic taping and boxing tools under spring and mechanical tension - pinch and strike injuries during use and cleaning |
| Apply sealers and primers | Vapours from solvent-based sealers and primers in enclosed rooms - headaches, dizziness and irritation |
| Control wet areas | Water and compound slurry on floors from wet sanding and tool washing - slips |
| Inspect and touch up finishes | Inspecting and sanding in poorly lit rooms - trips, falls and missed defects causing rework |
| Clean up and demobilise | Compound residue, dust and wash water in the work area - slips and residual dust exposure |
Each hazard comes with its control measures, an initial and residual risk rating and the person responsible, ready to check against your job.
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 Interior Systems Task Analysis
This is one of the Task Analysis documents written for Interior Systems crews. The trade covers plasterboard fixing and stopping, battens and ceilings, cornice, dust control, work from stilts and trestles.
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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 setting, jointing and sanding, 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.