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a job hazard analysis or jha is an important component of any health and safety program it is one of many risk assessment tools that can be used in the formal hazard assessment process to identify and control hazards many workers have been injured or killed because they either don't know the right steps or don't recognize the potential hazards of a job jha's help establish proper operating procedures and provide recommendations for preventing or eliminating hazards a job hazard analysis should be conducted by a team familiar with the task and should include one or more workers familiar with the job supervisors and if applicable any other experts are specialists by involving a whole team the likelihood of missing a step or hazard is decreased workers who do the job regularly will recognize unsafe shortcuts or ways to get around protective devices these may need to be addressed creating a jha begins by observing the job for our example we'll begin by observing the task of lifting and mov