JHA Book

“Job Hazard Analysis – A Guide for Voluntary Compliance and Beyond”

Our book on Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) provides a portfolio of tools and methods to help you to assess the risk and hazards of your organization. By considering the JHA as a fundamental part of your occupational health and safety process, you have a better opportunity to effectively combine physical hazard elements, behavioral issues, and risk assessment into one application.

Using the JHA as a process and not just an “add-on” program enhances your ability to identify, reduce and eliminate hazards and their associated risks. Through the use of the concepts in this book, you will gain knowledge of new techniques that will increase your ability and that of your management and employees to recognize hazards and implement proper hazard controls more effectively.

James Roughton and Nathan Crutchfield argue that the JHA should be the centerpiece of any risk control and occupational safety and health program (OHS).  However, the traditional JHA has limitations in its analysis of task data and misses the behavioral effects and the systems interactions between tools, equipment, materials, work environment, management and the individual worker.
The JHA is a method that is used to review the basic structure of a job.  By determining the steps required to complete the job and each step’s sub-tasks, the hazards and associated risks can be identified.  Safe operating procedures and hazard controls based on a thorough analysis can then be more effectively implemented using a hierarchy of controls.

The authors take the reader through the whole process of developing tools for identifying workplace hazards, developing systems that support hazard recognition, developing an effective JHA, and managing a JHA based program.   Their intent is to better assure the JHA efficiently fits into occupational safety and health management systems, allowing organizations to move from mere compliance to a pro-active safety management.

The book is supported by examples of JHAs, end of chapter review questions, sample checklists, action plans and forms. Using the process allows for a methodically development of  risk assessment needed for ANSI/AIHA Z10-2005 and other safety and health management systems.
The book is divided into four sections to provide a logical flow from hazard recognition to JHA development.   To view the Job Hazard Analysis Table of Contents. You can also check out Customer Reviews.

Part 1 -  sets the stage for hazard recognition and provides the basic foundation necessary to identify and correct hazards in the workplace.
Part 2 -  provides methods and techniques to strengthen the JHA process.
Part 3 - details the JHA development and implementation.
Part 4 - provides an overview of management systems to set the stage for an organization to move from the compliance to a strong safety culture.

James E. Roughton has a Master of Science (MS) in Safety, is a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Canadian Register Safety Professional (CRSP-R), Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM-R), a Certified Environmental Trainer (CET) and a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt.  His experience includes four years in the military, 40 years’ experience in industry with the past 30 years in the safety area developing and implementing safety management programs and management systems. He is an accomplished author in various areas of safety, environmental, quality, security, computers, etc. and is the author of 6 books, most notably "How to Develop an Effective Safety Culture: A Leadership Approach."

Nathan Crutchfield has a professional history that encompasses a full range of risk control program design, development, implementation and evaluation.  He has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Georgia State University with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering Technology, Southern Polytechnic State University.  He holds the designations of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), Associate in Risk Management (ARM), Associate in Research & Planning (ARP), and Certified Safety Professional (CSP).

Job Hazard Analysis – A Guide for Voluntary Compliance and Beyond
James Roughton and Nathan Crutchfield
Butterworth-Heinemann Copyright © 2008, Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-7506-8346-3