Risks plant employee safety

New plant, equipment, processes, etc. employ safe-place controls to eliminate or minimize risk. Responsible employees provide regular reports demonstrating favourable safety performance. 

Some plant and equipment are immediately classified as confined spaces, but extreme caution is necessary in the assessment of other areas. Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act 1974 requires employers to ensure the health and safety at work of their employees this duty is so far as is reasonably practicable. Therefore, as work in confined spaces is potentially dangerous this Section of the Act clearly requires employers to ensure that there is no risk to their employees when working in such an area. 

Suppliers and potential suppliers are classified with respect to expected or known compliance with environmental and safety standards. In a first approach, this classification is performed according to their location in OECD countries or non-OECD countries, since the risk of noncompliance with environmental and safety standards is expected to be higher in non-OECD countries (Kranz and Sargasser, 2003). Products/producers assigned a C3 rating represent a potentially high risk and are therefore subjected to a particularly careful check. This means that BASF employees visit the supplier and carry out an EHS assessment to determine whether the supplier s plant operates according to Responsible Care standards. A company can only be included in our list of suppliers if its facilities meet our requirements. 

As previously discussed, one of the best methods for employee empowerment is a facilitated workshop, where management is encouraged to talk to the employees. This should be held in a safe space. The facilitator asks employees to list the things that could be done to improve safety at the plant, and what hampers safety. Once a list is compiled, the attendees are asked to list what actions are needed to rectify the identified stumbling blocks, and to assign responsibility for those actions. Once the critical few risks have been isolated, commitments are made to take action to rectify either the behaviors or conditions to eliminate the listed pitfalls. In this type of a workshop, the goal is to have the employees tell us how we can improve safety. ... 

Risk analyses have been used for decades in Norway to support decisions related to industrial and societal developments. Primarily these analyses have focused on the risk for concerned employees. In recent years societal security has become an important issue and the enterprises have to demonstrate the safety of their facility according to the SEVESO II Directive. In this paper we will discuss important steps in relation to developing an LNG (liquefied natural gas) facility at Risavika outside Stavanger in Norway. Natural gas from the North Sea is transported through pipelines to shore, and then being liquefied at a process plant before it is stored in a huge tank. The LNG is distributed from the facdity to local consumers by LNG tankers and LNG lorries. The LNG facility is now imder construction by the local energy supplier Lyse. The necessary approval from local and central authorities has been obtained. 

It is the duty of every employer to provide a safe place of work, maintain plant and equipment safely and ensure safe use, handling, storage and transport of articles and substances. Furthermore under the same legislation, it is the employers responsibility to provide adequate instruction, training and information and to conduct his undertaking in such a manner that people who are not in his employ are not exposed to risks to then-health and safety. It is also the duty of employees not to endanger themselves or others by their acts or omissions and to cooperate with their employer as necessary to comply with current legislation and requirements. ... 

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. 

We promote a risk-aware culture in all areas of the company s decision-making. Improving the sustainability of our own operations, supply chain management, and technology and plant safety management have been identified as important targets to meet the expectations of customers, employees and other stakeholders. ... 

Section 4 is concerned with the various duties owed by those who have control of premises to those who are not their employees. Subsection (3) states that where such a person enters non-domestic premises by virtue of a contract or tenancy which creates an obligation for maintenance or repair or responsibility for the safety of or absence from risks to health arising from plant or substances in any such premises, then the person deemed to be in control owes a duty to see that reasonable measures are taken to ensure that such premises, plant or substances are safe and without risks to the health of the person entering. This section therefore would provide that safety standards be extended to someone who enters a cinema (contract) or enters a factory to inspect machinery (licensee) in addition to the other aim of the Act which is concerned with the safety of employees. It should be noted that liability is on the person who has control over premises or who can be described as an occupier and that case law shows that more than one person can be in that position Wheat v. Lacon Co. Ltd ). 

This type of organization has a program that stipulates competition among its various plants, offers plaques, has boards to record the number of hours passed without incidents, or posts a continuing safety record at the plant entrance. Such a company teaches the employees to identify the safety goals, and the employees are proud of the record. Safety in this company becomes one of the lively aspects of the job and is more than simply avoiding risks or accidents [2]. 

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