Manage the band knife hazard and deliver a toolbox talk

What is going on

Band knife 2 in the Brunswick cutting room has been tagged out because its blade guard does not lower fully to lay height. The hazard is in the WHS Incident and Hazard Register at a high rating and is still open. The contractor cannot attend until next week, which means all band knife work is running through knife 1 and the cutting room is under pressure. The Quality and WHS Coordinator wants the risk rating verified against the matrix in the WHS Management Plan, the register entry updated with interim controls and owners, and a toolbox talk on guarding and the blade change process delivered to the cutting room team and recorded.

Your brief

Verify and manage the band knife guard hazard in the register, define interim controls with owners and due dates, prepare and deliver a toolbox talk on cutting room guarding and blade change to the cutting room team, and record it on the Toolbox Talk Record Template with follow-up actions.

Work through it

You do not need to do it all. Doing a few of these will show you what the work is like. Your ticks and notes stay on this device.

• Read the WHS Management Plan risk matrix and principal hazards section and the Occupational Health and Safety Policy, and confirm or revise the risk rating for register entry WHS-26-033 with your reasoning.
• Update the register entry with interim controls for the period until repair, including the tag-out, the transfer of work to knife 1 and any change to lay heights, each with an owner and due date.
• Consult the Production Manager and the senior cutter about how the extra load on knife 1 will be managed safely and record their input.
• Prepare the toolbox talk using the Toolbox Talk Record Template, covering guarding, mesh gloves, the blade change and one-for-one exchange rule, and the reporting of guard faults.
• Deliver the talk to the cutting room team at the start of a shift, ask the prepared questions and record every question and concern raised.
• Record attendees, key points and agreed actions on the template and file it with the Quality and WHS Coordinator within two working days.
• Add any new hazard raised at the talk to the WHS Incident and Hazard Register and update the training matrix note for each attendee.

What someone in this role would produce

• Register entry WHS-26-033 updated with rating rationale and interim controls
• Consultation record with Production
• Completed Toolbox Talk Record
• Any new register entries and training matrix update