Required inspections .Hazard identification

Hazard identification requires the identification of hazards, unsafe conditions, and risky behaviors. Hazard anticipation relies on human intuition, training, common sense, observation, and continuous awareness. To identify hazards, rely on the use of inspections, surveys, analysis, and human recognition reporting. Hazard identification efforts should focus on unsafe conditions, hazards, broken equipment, and human deviations from accepted practices. Require supervisors or unit safety coordinators to conduct periodic area inspections. These individuals should understand hazardous areas and the workers better than anyone. However, supervisors can fall prey to inspection bias, which results in poor survey results. Many supervisors conduct limited ongoing inspections... 

Periodic inspections for security hazards consist of identification and evaluation of workplace security hazards and changes in worker work practices and may require assessing for more than one type of workplace violence. Our establishment performs inspections for each type of workplace violence using the methods specified below to identify and evaluate workplace security hazards. 

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