TA-ST-01 · Steel Fixing & Structural Steel
Steel Fixing and Structural Steel - Master Task Analysis
All steel fixing and reinforcement works including cutting, bending, carrying, placing and tying bar, mesh and prefabricated cages, and working on decks and edges.
What you get
One editable Word document covering steel fixing and structural steel - master task analysis for Steel Fixing & Structural Steel: 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 |
| Set out, stage materials and establish the work area | Unidentified site hazards, services and conflicting works exposing the crewPeople struck or plant damaged unloading and setting up |
| Cut and bend reinforcement on site | Bar shear or bending machine - fingers or hand crushed, amputated or entangledCut-off saw or grinder - kickback, hot sparks, silica dust and noise |
| Place, fix and tie reinforcement | Falls onto protruding starter bars and projecting reinforcement - impalement causing fatal or serious injuryLacerations and puncture wounds from bar ends, tie wire tails and mesh edgesSustained bent-over tying - back, wrist and repetitive strain injuryTrips and ankle injuries walking on fixed reinforcement mats |
| Lift and place prefabricated cages and bundles | Crane lift of heavy cage or bundle - crew struck or killed by suspended steel |
| Fix steel at edges, decks and in footings | Falls from formwork edges, decks or into excavations |
| Work through concrete pours | Steel fixers working around the pour crew, pump lines and fresh mats - struck-by and strain during pours |
| Manage heat, sun and weather | Sustained outdoor work on exposed decks - heat illness, UV damage and dehydration |
| Clean up, demobilise and reinstate | Offcuts, tie wire and caps creating trips and laceration hazards |
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 Steel Fixing & Structural Steel 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 Steel Fixing & Structural Steel Task Analysis
This is the Master for Steel Fixing & Structural Steel, covering the general activities within its stated scope. The trade covers reinforcing placement and tying, structural steel erection, bolting and welding, crane lifts, work at height.
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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 steel fixing and structural steel - 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.