Lesson 36

Card 5.1: Safety Culture and the JSA

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Format: Instruction + writing workshop

Time: 40 min

Prerequisites: None; early in the season

Core Question

Professional dive and marine operations write a Job Safety Analysis before work begins: what are we doing, what could hurt someone, and what do we do about it, in advance and on paper. Can you do that for your own bench?

Resource (~10 min)

The JSA anatomy: task steps in order, hazards per step, controls per hazard. A control is specific (“safety glasses at the soldering station”) not vibes (“be careful”).
Read one strong JSA from a past MATE submission and one weak one. Name three differences.

Activity

Write a real JSA for a task you will actually perform this season: soldering, bench-spinning a thruster, potting, lifting the ROV, pool deck operations. Minimum three steps, each with at least one hazard and one concrete control. Trade with a partner and try to find a hazard they missed; revise.

Clearing This Card

Your revised JSA, plus a 90-second oral check: “Which control on your sheet is most likely to be skipped when people are rushed, and how do we make it skip-proof?”

If You Miss This Class

Examples and the template are in the folder; write, get a peer review from any cleared student, same check.

Why This Matters

The company safety review is a scored submission built from exactly these, so every cleared card contributes real lines to it. More honestly: the studio runs power tools, soldering irons, and 12-volt systems next to water, and the culture where students write the hazards is the culture where students catch them.