A JSA lists the steps of a job, the hazards in each step, and the controls agreed before work starts. SiteKey keeps them where your crew can find them.
JSA stands for job safety analysis. Some sites call it a JSEA (job safety and environment analysis) or a task analysis, or borrow the Australian term SWMS. Whatever the name, you break the task into steps, identify what could hurt someone at each step, and agree the controls before anyone picks up a tool.
A good JSA is short and specific. For each step it records what is being done, what could go wrong, and what is being done about it. The crew doing the work should help write it, because they know how the job goes. Everyone doing the task signs on to it before starting.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, a PCBU must identify hazards and manage risks so far as is reasonably practicable, and must engage workers in health and safety decisions. The Act does not name JSAs. A JSA is one of the most widely accepted ways of showing that the hazards were identified, controls were agreed, and the people doing the work were part of it.
JSAs often end up in a folder in the site office or on someone's laptop, and the crew on the tools has never seen them. With a JSA library, the crew can open them on site.
Break the job into the steps the crew follows, in order, with a line for each step. Most jobs come out at five to ten steps.
For each step, list what could hurt someone, such as falls, plant, energy sources, traffic, weather and other crews working nearby.
Set a control for every hazard, starting as high up the hierarchy of controls as practicable, and have everyone doing the job sign on to it.
SiteKey keeps your JSAs in a library attached to your sites, and workers see them when they sign in.
SiteKey is a flat rate of $30 a month for an office and $50 a month for a worksite. There are no per-user fees and no per-scan costs, and the price stays the same when you take on another crew. The JSA library is included in SiteKey site access management. See full pricing on the SiteKey homepage.
A JSA covers one task. The site specific safety plan covers the whole job on the whole site, and the JSAs for each task come under it. What an SSSP is and what goes in one.
JSA stands for job safety analysis. It is a short, structured document that breaks a specific job into steps, identifies the hazards at each step, and records the controls that will be used to manage them. You may also hear JSEA (job safety and environment analysis), task analysis, or the Australian term SWMS (safe work method statement). On most NZ sites these all describe much the same thing.
The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 does not name JSAs. It requires a PCBU to identify hazards, manage risks so far as is reasonably practicable, and engage workers in health and safety matters. A JSA is one of the most widely used and accepted ways of showing those duties were met for a specific task. Many principal contractors and clients require one before high-risk work starts.
A SWMS (safe work method statement) is an Australian term with a defined legal role for high-risk construction work under Australian regulations. In New Zealand there is no equivalent legal definition, so the JSA, JSEA and task analysis are used more flexibly. Both documents list the steps, hazards and controls for a job, and both are signed on by the crew.
The people doing the work, with their supervisor. A JSA written by someone in an office who has never done the task tends to miss how the job is done on the ground. Involving the crew is also how you meet the worker engagement duty in the Health and Safety at Work Act. Every JSA should end with the crew signing on before work starts.
SiteKey includes a JSA library as part of its site access management platform. Your JSAs are stored in the library and attached to the sites and tasks they cover. Workers see the relevant JSAs when they sign in to site on their phone and acknowledge them, and each acknowledgement is time-stamped. Pricing is a flat rate of $30 a month for an office and $50 a month for a worksite, with no per-user charges.
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