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Machine Safety 12 330-013-02-IGDO © 2013, Workplace Safety & Prevention Services (WSPS) 1 877 494 WSPS (9777) | 905 614 1400 | www.wsps.ca Human Factors planning Human factors planning is part of workplace machine safety and health. A significant number of Ontario injuries involve not only amputations and similar trauma, but many less dramatic strains, sprains, and related overuse/repetitive task injuries, which are, however, serious. The following checklist questions can be used to identify work activity "symptoms" that may have potential for developing into real problems that require control. ("Yes" answers indicate a concern that needs follow up and correction, e.g., professional advice for control.) Human Factors checklist YES 1. Is the worker exposed to unrelieved repetitive movements in the job process? 2. Does the worker's task demand moving too frequently, with excessive force, or too long? 3. Is the worker's body position, e.g., arms, legs, back, neck in poor alignment/awkward postures? 4. Is the workstation/equipment improperly placed/disorganized causing poor movement? 5. Are tools and other equipment designed to prevent healthy working positions? 6. Are processes and workstations designed to force long reaches, stretches, deep bends? 7. Is the worker uncomfortable during any tasks or procedures of the job? 8. Can any body part get caught in moving parts, between objects, have harmful contact? 9. Is the worker exposed to slips, falls, trips, strains from lifting, pulling, pushing, heat/cold? 10. Is excessive noise or vibration, poor lighting, or adverse weather affecting performance? 11. Is the worker exposed to any risk of falling or from falling objects? 12. Is the worker exposed to possible contacts with electricity, toxic, corrosive chemicals, dusts, fumes, vapours, gases, mists, etc.? WSpS.ca

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