Hazards safety inspection

Production of POPs In accordance with the provisions of the Regulation on the Safety Manage ment of Hazardous Chemicals, a permit system is applied to the manufacturing and operation of POPs. In order to implement this management system, relevant government organizations issued the Measures for Permit Administration of Hazardous Chemicals in 2002, the Measures for Implementation of Work Safety Licenses of Hazardous Chemical Production Enterprises in 2004, and Measures on Safety Inspections of Construction Projects of Hazardous Chemicals in 2005. 

Storage of POPs Related enterprises shall establish storage facilities meeting relevant conditions and also that meet the requirements of Rule for Storage of Hazardous Chemicals (GB15603-1995). For new construction, renovation, or expansion projects of such facilities, the Chinese government shall impose a strict approval system. To this end, Measures on Safety Inspection of Construction Projects for Production and Storage of Hazardous Chemicals were issued in 2005. 

Process Hazards Reviews comprise formal committee meetings where hours are spent intensively examining, by one of the methods described later, a chemical reaction or process, with a report, documentation, and follow-up. Pre-Startup Reviews/Process Hazards Audits are no less intensive, but the time spent is less, because the complexity of the process or equipment being examined is less. Reports, documentation, and follow-up are also a part of the Pre-Startup Review/Process Hazards Audit. An equipment acceptance safety inspection would be considered a Process Hazards Audit. 

Administrative controls can be broken down into two broad categories programs and activities. Programs are the written documents that explain how hazards are to be controlled. Activities are the programs put into action. Some of the more common administrative hazard control programs include policies, procedures, and plans. Some of the more common administrative hazard control activities are training, housekeeping, the permit system, and safety inspections and audits. 

Chemical laboratories are the most common t)q)e of workplace where a wide variety of chemicals are handled on a routine basis. They have evolved into unique facilities designed to deal with many of the hazards described in this book. Chapter 8 discusses the modern laboratory environment as an essential component of the culture of safety and outlines the important role of safety inspection programs. Labora... 

A management tool used to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of the implementation of safety policy, programs, and procedures by subjecting each area of an activity to a systematic critical examination with the purposes of minimizing loss, and providing a quantified assessment of performance and actions needed to render identified hazards harmless. See also Safety Inspection. 

A physical safety inspection of the workplace to identify and evaluate potential hazards. 

Periodic, scheduled facility safety inspections are essential in any operational area, especially where hazardous tasks are performed on a regular basis. Compliance with safety inspection requirements should not be difficult to accomplish since similar requirements should already exist in an established occupational safety program. The facility inspection encompasses all facets of daily operation and considers the human-machine interface a primary candidate area for potential mishaps. Frequent facility inspections are an excellent method of maintaining current awareness of facility conditions and how those conditions affect, or might affect, the safe operation of that facility. A system should be in place to ensure implementation of corrective actions and to track repetitive items. Results of inspections should be properly documented and accountability for discrepant items appropriately determined and assigned in order for the inspection process to be effective. If properly performed, the facility safety inspection is an excellent tool in the overall success of the system safety function. 

Conduct periodic area hazard control and safety inspections. 

Does the organization keep records of safety inspections and identified hazards ... 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers requires contractors who perform construction work for the federal government to prepare a safety and occupational health plan (SOH). The idea is to analyze the potential work on a specific job or project and to plan accident prevention measures for each phase and component of the work. The plan includes work performed by subcontractors. It includes contractor hazard control measures. The plan must include frequent and regularly scheduled safety inspections of work sites, materials and equipment by competent persons. 

The site plan concept provides an overall view of plants requiring safety inspection and establishing an early warning system for possible changes of use or process. Within this general control, detailed controls may be elaborated. If it is desired to Introduce a new plant on the site, a more detailed plant specification must then be produced. This specification must indicate the type of process to be introduced, the nature of the materials to be processed, the nature and volume of likely wastes, the main nuclear hazards, aiid a Design Safety Report, which is a statement of the principles and means for the control of safety. This information must be submitted to the Inspectorate before the licensee begins to construct the new plant on his site. 

Identification of hazards includes those items that can assist you in identifying workplace hazards and determining what corrective action is necessary to control them. Actions include worksite safety inspections, accident investigations, meetings of safety and health committees, and project safety meetings. To accomplish the identification of hazards, the following should be reviewed ... 

Safety inspections of the jobsite will occur periodically every (Insert Frequency), when conditions change, or when a new process or procedure is implemented. These inspections should focus on the identification and correction of potential safety, health, and fire hazards. Individuals should use the site evaluation worksheet when conducting jobsite safety inspections. In addition, the safe work procedures should be reviewed by personnel conducting safety inspections of the jobsite. 

Internal safety inspections are important features in good safety practice. In daily production tasks, it is not always possible to detect all safety deficiencies. It is also well known that experienced employees can be too familiar with their work to note even imminent dangers. Regular walk-through surveys are therefore required. Safety checks may be conducted weekly, monthly or with some other level of frequency, depending on local risk conditions. It is usually advisable to use a checklist form appropriate to the plant, in order to conduct a systematic consideration of all of the relevant hazards. In the case of advanced safety inspection routines documented and issued using company systems, there is also a communication tool and checkout for the implementation of corrective measures by management. 

Workplace inspections tend to follow the same format but are given many different names including safety sampling, safety audits, safety inspections, hazard surveys, etc. Certain of the above are discussed below but all have the same aim - namely risk identification. 

During workplace safety inspections the people concerned are already alerted to the possibility that there are hazards present, and are actively seeking them. But to seek is not always to find. Untrained inspectors characteristically miss hazards which have one or more of the following... 

The proactive approach, on the other hand, endeavours to identify, evaluate and control hazards and risks before they develop to the stage of causing an accident. The technique is inherent in the process of risk management (Chapters 9 and 10). One of the more common methods employed to identify potential hazards before they manifest themselves is the safety inspection, or survey, carried out by the safety adviser, manager and safety representative, where the work area is inspected for any hazards which are noted. After the inspection the identified hazards are assessed and a plan of action to put them right is formulated. Variations on this theme include ... 

Hazardous Waste Inspections Reference Manual, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 1986. 

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