Inspections interviews

Observation Accidents Surveys Measurement Inspections Interviews Assessment JHA Records Incidents Maintenance Reports... 

Interviews provide an additional level of verification of the implanentation of written safety programs beyond the school inspection. Interviews are opportunities to measure the degree to which faculty and staff can converse on safety-related topics. Open-ended questions are the desired format for interview questions because they prompt comprehensive responses from the individuals being interviewed. Conversely, closed-ended questions should be avoided in that they only reqnire the interviewee to respond by saying yes or no. For example ... 

Employee involvement should also include participation in the OSHA enforcement process e.g., walkaround inspections, interviews, informal conferences, and formal settlement discussions, as may be appropriate. Many methods of employee involvement may be encountered in individual workplaces. 

Obviously, definition 2 would apply to a safety audit. The word audit implies a standard. The purpose of the audit is to find out if the standard is being met. This could be a standard for the number and location of fire extinguishers, whether operators have met certain training requirements, whether the relief valves on pressure vessels have been tested in the time period required, or virtually anything else that management deems essential to safety. Audits can involve any or aU of the following physical inspections, interviews, and review of documents and records. 

An essential part of the on-site visit is the physical inspection of the toller facility—the walk-through. It offers the opportunity to confirm interview responses, observe work practices, interview employees, and note general housekeeping, soil contamination and safety issues. 

OSHA has warned employers that it will make a special effort to inspect a company s PPE programs to determine whether appropriate equipment was made available and fitted properly to workers. OSHA is particularly interested in female employees. PPE is not always designed properly for women. OSHA plans to interview female employees during inspections to ensure that they are fitted properly. 

The audit includes a review of the process safety information, inspection of the physical facilities, and interviews with all levels of plant personnel. Using the procedures and checklist, the team systematically analyzes compliance with the PSM Rule and any other relevant corporate policies. The training program is reviewed for adequacy of content, frequency and effectiveness of training. Interviews determine employee knowledge and awareness ofthe safety procedures, duties, rules, and emergency response assignments. The team identifies deficiencies in the application of safety and health policies, procedures, and work authorization practices to determine live actions. 

After preparation, a checklist may be used by less expert engineers than the preparers for inspecting the process areas to compare the process equipment and operations with the checklist oidrcr on hardcopy or laptop computer. The analyst fills in the checklist according to observations from their inspection, process documentation, and interviews with operators and their perceptions. 

Periodically, the SEMP elements should be audited to evaluate the effectiveness of the program. Auditing should be conducted by qualified personnel through interviews and inspections. If audits consist < y find no deficiencies in the program, then management should conclude that... 

Accident facts Make detailed examinations with photos, inspections, and interviews. Establish origin of accident and facts relevant to layered causes and recommendations. Record extent of damage, and hypothesize the sequence of events. Resist development of potential causes to maintain momentum and objectivity while collecting data. 

The first phase of process safety incident investigation involves gathering all the pertinent facts from the collected evidence, whether derived from interviews, site and equipment inspections, or document reviews. At this... 

Inspectors will visit the investigator site and may possibly wish to visit the sponsor s office. They will review the documentation of the study file (see Box 7.1). Approval documents of the lEC will be compared with any amendments made to the protocol or to the subject s information sheet/ICR Consent forms for the study subjects will be inspected to establish who actually gave consent and whether this was before entry into the clinical study. A thorough source data verification of the CRF with the source documents, including the medical records, will be undertaken. Documentation relating to drug accormtability wiU be matched with each subject s CRF The facilities wiU be reviewed and the site staff interviewed. Further information can be obtained from... 

Completing the Audit At the conclusion of the audit, an exit interview should be conducted so that all concerns can be immediately conveyed to staff. It is important to be aware of questions or concerns the auditors may have before they leave. A file of inspection documents should be maintained... 

Inspection Workshop, which teaches inspectors the techniques of interviewing, evidence development, commimication and coordination with the manufacturer, and what to do once inside a firm... 

During the qualification of computer technology suppliers and developers, a site visit and inspection of the computing environment and related technology products is conducted. Information is collected through formal inspection of the defined practices, verification of supporting evidence, and interviews with key personnel. Information collected is compared to the defined acceptance criteria and verified before completion of the on-site visit. 

Don t allow the opening meeting to turn into an extended sales show. Inspection and interview should constitute the bulk of your work. Ask open-ended questions don t set up for simple yes or no answers. These open-ended responses will often lead you to unforeseen concerns. 

After an OSHA inspection of the workplace, the investigator(s) will review the evidence gathered via documents, interviews, and observations. If the OSHA inspector believes there has been a violation of a standard, he can use a standard citation form that identifies the site inspected, the date, the type of violation, a description of the violation, the proposed penalty, and other requirements. The citation must be issued within the first six months after the alleged violation occurred. 

A multi-disciplined team interviewed witnesses and performed tests, and the evidence was followed to a sound conclusion. Investigators sent the explosion meters (flammable gas detectors) to the instrument shop for examination. The welding torch was also inspected. Experts found both the torch and the meter behaved satisfactorily. There was speculation that some aquatic life deteriorated and formed methane, but that was not the case. They concluded that the fuel was dissolved methane from the well water system that was routed to the pump seal. Trace amounts of dissolved methane (about 0.02 percent by volume) accumulated in the well water stream flowing through the 3/8-inch-diameter stream on the... 

Existing site information very likely comes from the initial site assessment or phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) done for that site. A phase I ESA normally includes a site inspection, a review of the relevant data, interviews, and a written report. When a phase II ESA is performed, more existing site information is obtained. A phase II contains (limited) soil sampling, done to determine the soil contaminants, or to determine the soil quality on- and off-site. Phase II ESAs have written reports including recommendations and have the extent of contamination delineated. 

Table III indicates the number of dumps identified for one town in Monroe County before and after contact with local officials and field inspections. The findings illustrate that the methodology does not overestimate the number of dumps and possible dumps identified through photo interpretation. However, the process was able to identify approximately twice the number of dumps initially identified through a call-in campaign and preliminary interviews with the same local officials (10).

Inspection methodology Interview with the responsible person Checking the records and documentation Soil/product sampling Physically inspecting the farm or the factory... 

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