Unit III Homework
Assignment
You have been tasked with identifying health hazards
associated with a production line at a manufacturing facility.
Employees at the beginning of the line use a solvent to
clean the surface of medium-size auto parts, and then they place the parts on a
moving line. As the parts move along the line, an employee sprays them with a
powder coating, and the parts
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move through an oven. Another employee removes the parts
from the line and places them in slots in a cart for transporting to shipping.
You have been provided safety data sheets for the solvent
used for cleaning the parts (click here to access) and the powder coating that
is used (click here to access). Use the JHA form to identify the potential
health hazards associated with the process. Click here to access the Basic Job
Hazard Analysis form. You will use the Basic Hazard Analysis form to enter your
responses and to answer the four questions listed below. Please upload this completed
document to your instructor for grading.
Prepare a two-page homework assignment summarizing your
health hazard analysis and answer these questions from the
Basic Job Hazard Analysis form.
1. What are the
health hazards associated with the operation?
2. What are the
primary exposure routes associated with each health hazard?
3. Are there any
potential acute or chronic health effects for any of the health hazards you
identified?
4. Are special
hazards associated with any of the health hazards?
You may use the safety data sheets provided above,
information from the OSHA or NIOSH websites, or academic references from the
Internet to answer the questions. Citations are not required for this homework
assignment; however you may want to use them in order to answer the questions.
Information about accessing the grading rubric for this
assignment is provided below.





