Safe Work Practices are generally written methods outlining how to perform a task with minimum risk to people, equipment, materials, environment, and processes.
Safe Job Procedures are a series of specific steps that guide a worker through a task from start to finish in a chronological order. Safe job procedures are designed to reduce the risk by minimizing potential exposure.
Safe Work Practices / Safe Work Procedures must identify materials, tools and equipment, including PPE requirements.
- Safe Work Practices / Safe Work Procedures are required for all jobs that are:
- Critical or high risk
- New or seldom performed
- Have a historically high incident & severity rates
- Complex or detailed in nature
- Completed needing two or more workers to carry out simultaneous or concurrent tasks