Formal Hazard Assessment Report: Alberta Occupational Health

This report provides a hazard assessment based on the Alberta Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) program. It identifies potential hazards across various job roles within an organization, analyzes the associated risks using a risk matrix, and proposes control measures to mitigate these risks. The assessment covers physical, chemical, biological, and organizational hazards, focusing on tasks like battery engineering at Apple Inc. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of strengthening safety standards and establishing robust working structures to minimize risks, highlighting the need for proactive measures to ensure employee health and safety.

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Executive summary
The purpose of this project is to assess the hazards involved in the tasks of any job and
associate with its respective risks. The list of jobs of Apple Inc. has been determined and
thereafter the jobs are divided into its respective tasks. The several hazards for each tasks are
assumed and thereafter it is associated with a particular degree of risks. The risk matrix has
also been prepared to determine the position of the company with respect to the risk and
solutions to avoid the risk has been provided in the risk assessment table. The report is
thereafter concluded by determining what should Apple do to avoid such risks.

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Table of Contents
Executive summary....................................................................................................................2
Introduction................................................................................................................................4
Discussion..................................................................................................................................4
List of Jobs in Apple..............................................................................................................4
Tasks performed by the selected jobs....................................................................................5
The hazardous task.................................................................................................................6
The risks.................................................................................................................................7
Risk Matrix.............................................................................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
A hazard assessment is the process of identifying the possible hazard that can cause
damage to the people working in an organisation. The hazard assessment is done to control
and eliminate the possible hazard (Bouge, 2018). The study has elaborated the job roles and
job description of the Apple Company. According to the job description of the company the
following risk has been encountered in the paper (Hopkin, 2018). Hazard assessment is done
with respect to the risks associated with the occupation of the employees.
Discussion
Apple Inc. is a multinational company, being headquartered at California, America
was founded in the year 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozinak and Ronald Wayne. The
following paragraph discusses about the hazard assessment of the various jobs provided by
Apple Inc.
List of Jobs in Apple
Several jobs are available for several departments in the organisation. The
departments are hardware, software and services, design, operations and supply chain,
marketing. Corporate functions, sales and business development, apple retail and support and
services. The list of jobs in this organisation is:
1. Hardware- Acoustic Technologies, Analog and Digital Design, Architecture, Battery
Engineering, Camera technologies, Display Technologies, Engineering Project
Management.
2. Software Services – Application and Frameworks, Cloud and Infrastructure, Core
Operating Systems, DevOps and Site Reliability.
3. Design – Industrial Design, Communications Design, Human Interface Design,

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4. Operations and Supply Chain – Business intelligence and analytics, business process
management, supply and demand management, retail and E commerce, Supply chain
management.
5. Corporate Function – Information systems and technology, Finance, Legal, People,
Information Security.
6. Marketing – Product Marketing, Corporate Communications and Marketing
Communications.
7. Sales – Business Development, Account Management, Apple Store Sales, Retail
Partner Sales Sales Planning and Operations.
8. Support and Service – Online support, Technical Support and Customer Support,
Apple Store Support, Apple Care Business Development and Service Channel
Management and Operations.
The three jobs from the hardware department have been considered here and they are
Acoustic technologies,
Tasks performed by the selected jobs
Acoustic technologies –
i. It is involved with noise and vibration engineering.
ii. Designing and development of new audio systems.
iii. Audio electrical engineering.
Battery Engineering–
i. Creation of innovative battery designs.
ii. Enhancement of the charging technology.
iii. Engineering testing.

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Display Technologies –
i. Involved in imaging process.
ii. Involved in providing optical solutions
iii. Involved in software and silicon engineering.
The hazardous task
The hazardous task in this case is assumed to be the battery management. The hazards
associated with each tasks and their respective risks, how to control the risks are provided as
follows:
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TASKS HAZARDS RISK SOLUTION
Creation of
innovative
battery
designs
Physical Hazard
(Explosion can lead to
physical damage)
High Proper setup systems.
Chemical Hazard
(Battery uses
chemicals that can
cause harm to the
human body)
High Proper security and use of gloves and
masks.
Biological Hazard (Do
not have biological
hazard)
Organisational Hazard
(Different employees
can have different
innovative techniques
that can lead to
conflict)
Medium Proper managerial system.
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TASKS HAZARDS RISK SOLUTION
Enhancement
of charging
technology
And
Engineering
testing
Physical Hazard
(Explosion and
electrical shocks can
lead to physical
damage)
High Proper setup and secured administration
systems.
Chemical Hazard
(Battery uses
chemicals that can
High Proper security and use of gloves and
masks.

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cause harm to the
human body)
Biological Hazard (Do
not have biological
hazard)
Organisational Hazard
(Different employees
can have different
innovative techniques
that can lead to
conflict)
Medium Proper managerial system.
The risks
The risks associated with the physical hazards are that it creates damage to the
employees’ health and thereafter the working structure becomes questionable in nature. The
safety risks come under light and the company’s goodwill can be affected.
The risk associated with chemical hazards in this case is that the workers use a
mixture of chemicals in making batteries. Improper use of those mixtures can lead to blasts
and can affect the work environment as well as the health of the workers.
Risk associated with the organisational structure is that there can be several ideas
from different employees and hence there can be conflicts.
Risk Matrix
Severity
Make you
uncomfortable
(1)
Send you to
hospital (2)
Kill you or cause
you a permanent
disability (3)
Likelihood Unlikely (1) 1 2 3
Might happen (2) 2 4 6
Highly likely (3) 3 6 9

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It is a matrix that shows the level of risk possessed by the various jobs in the
organisation and it is grouped as per the likelihood and severity of the nature of the jobs and
the respective tasks. The risk matrix in case of apple’s battery management segment can be
grouped into the number 6 as there is physical, chemical and organisational hazard associated
with this particular task.
Conclusion
From the above analysis it can be concluded that every organisation is associated with
several types of hazards. There are several jobs in an organisation and each and every tasks
being performed has a hazard associated with it. The hazards are associated with certain risks.
It is concluded in this report that Apple is also associated to a certain degree of risk and it has
been marked as 6 with reference to the risk matrix table. The company should therefore
strengthen its safety standards and make strong working structures.

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References
Bogue, R. (2017). Robots that interact with humans: a review of safety technologies and
standards. Industrial Robot: An International Journal, 44(4), 395-400.
Giga, S. I., Fletcher, I. J., Sgourakis, G., Mulvaney, C. A., & Vrkljan, B. H. (2018).
Organisational level interventions for reducing occupational stress in healthcare
workers. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (4).
Hopkin, P. (2018). Fundamentals of risk management: understanding, evaluating and
implementing effective risk management. Kogan Page Publishers.
World Health Organization. (2018). Guidance document on evaluating and expressing
uncertainty in hazard characterization.