Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) for Construction
A JHA breaks every task into steps, identifies the hazard at each step, and establishes the control that eliminates or reduces it. Built for your specific operation — not pulled from a library.
A Job Hazard Analysis is not a safety checklist. It's a step-by-step breakdown of a specific task that identifies exactly what can go wrong at each step and what control eliminates or reduces that risk. Done right, it's the most practical safety tool a crew can use before starting high-hazard work. Done wrong — generic, pre-written, signed without being read — it's a liability document that demonstrates you had a plan no one followed.
Greenberg Safety writes JHAs for your specific tasks, in your specific site conditions, for your actual scope of work. We cover the task steps your crew actually performs, identify the hazards present in your environment, and specify controls at the appropriate level of the hierarchy — elimination and substitution first, administrative controls and PPE last. JHAs are delivered in English and Spanish and are written to be used in a pre-task briefing, not filed in a binder.
Beyond writing JHAs for immediate project needs, we train your supervisors and foremen to write effective JHAs on their own. A team that understands how to break down a task and think through the hazard at each step doesn't need a consultant to produce a form — they produce better safety outcomes because the thinking is built into how they plan work. That's the end goal: a crew that recognizes hazards before the task starts, not after someone gets hurt.