Safety analysis and pre-job planning

Installing such a pre-job planning and safety analysis system is one method of fulfilling the Management of Change requirements in ZIO, which are addressed in Chapter 15. A Pre-job Planning and Safety Analysis System is presented in... 

Addendum A is to serve as a reference only as each organization needs to craft its own formal management of change process. For moderate-sized locations, implementing the policy may be accomplished by instituting a not overly complex pre-job planning and safety analysis system. 

For moderate-sized locations, I strongly recommend that safety professionals consider drafting and proposing the implementation of a pre-job planning and safety analysis system as the implementation method to fulfill the Management of Change Policy and Procedures drafted to meet the requirements in ZIO. The purpose of a pre-job planning and safety analysis system is to provide a means for supervisors and their staffs to determine how the work is to be done and to study the hazards and risks that may be encountered—before the work commerces. 

At the beginning of those sessions, an outline was distributed to the attendees that set forth the fundamentals of the pre-job review system being proposed. After a discussion of the procedures enumerated in the outline, attendees were divided into groups to plan actual maintenance jobs that were described in scenarios that had been previously prepared. The discussion outline given to the participants was comparable to that shown in Addendum B in this chapter. It is a composite of pre-job planning and safety analysis systems. 

At this location, supervisors took to the idea of pre-job planning and safety analysis when they recognized that such a system made their jobs easier, improved productivity, and reduced the risks. As one safety professional said Our supervisors have become real believers in the system. Thus, a culture change had been achieved. 

Unusual, non-routine, non-production work, work where high energy exposures are contemplated, and maintenance projects for which the scope of the work requires a determination that pre-job planning and safety analysis would be beneficial... 

Multidisciplinary group discussions are to be held to encompass the content of the Pre-Job Planning and Safety Analysis Outline (Addendum B in this chapter). 

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