Safety audits forms

Table VII. Undergraduate Laboratory Safety Lecture Outline (based on OU LSSP coupled with OU Laboratory Safety Audit Form).

So, what sort of road safety issues did we identify on major road schemes They are built to standard, and so there should be no safety problems, right Wrong. Despite the Road Safety Audit forming only a small part of the road budget, its influence can be quite large. The trick is to make sure that any fundamental and serious road safety hazards are designed out and not carried through to construction - otherwise, remedial measures can be difficult and expensive. 

The audit/inspeetion form that you should use ean be developed from the safety plan. A qualified person should examine the safety plan and eome up with a eheeklist that should serve as an audit/inspeetion form. Allowanees should be made to inelude items not speeifieally noted in the safety plan but that may be observed during field walk-throughs. Certain highly pertinent seetions of what OSHA uses when performing a eomplianee inspeetion of hazardous waste sites is ineluded in Appendix D. This inspeetion/audit form eovers many of the basies and ean be used a general guide. 

Using a standard audit form is certainly acceptable and can prove to be an outstanding tool, especially when getting a handle on a fire extinguisher program, life-safety issues, the lighting of exit signs, availability of first-aid kits, clear aisles, and a variety of issues that are basic in nature. The typical standard audit form will likely have complete sections that are marked not applicable. Unless a unique audit form is created, there is usually no way around sections that will be marked not applicable. ... 

Safety audit report written records, together with the audited entity feedbacks are responsible for safety audit for review, modification to form an audit report. Then the reports should be submitted to the audited entity and signed by management layer. 

Measures of form are just that. Measures may be produced and observed, such as safety audits, incident statistics, or incident costs, and have no bearing on the status of those responsible for operations. 

Safety promotion subteam This subteam s objective is the raising of safety awareness. They would audit and approve safety improvements and track and support the JSA (job safety analysis) efforts. They could also collect the safety observation forms and hold a drawing to select a few winners at all company meetings. Rewards earned through these... 

Depending on which measurement method is used, the results are now quantified in the form of a percentage allocated, marks given, or a ranking established. Safety audits, both internal and external, evaluate compliance with an organization s standards, and scores then indicate whether there is a deviation from the prescribed standards set. 

A chemical plant is changing continually. People come and go, sources of raw materials vary, alternative suppliers of equipment have to be used, the plant gets older, and so on. To ensure that design intentions and safety standards are preserved, a system of monitoring the state of the process, plant and procedures is necessary. This can take two forms scheduled checks on trips and alarms, and safety audits. (See also case histories A1 99, page 194.)... 

A study of the development of the British railway network from the 1830s shows how railway engineers and their regulators grasped the concept of Safety Audit as the key to a safe transport system. In the early days of this form of mass transportation, accidents were common as the pioneers came to grips with the demands of moving people and goods, at previously unknown speeds, around the country. 

The Road Safety Audit Standard describes these Interim Road Safety Audits as being carried out and reported in the same way as the more formal stages of audit. However, it is likely that most nontrunk road schemes will have a less formal approach and the reports will be in the form of brief notes on the particular subject under... 

It is important that a copy of the Exception Report or feedback form is returned to the Road Safety Audit Team. Without some form of feedback. Road Safety Auditors are working in a vacuum and will find it difficult to improve their Road Safety Audits over time. 

While the Road Safety Auditor concentrates on road safety issues, the client or design project engineer will have to weigh up the various consequences of implementing the recommendations within the Road Safety Audit Report. Generally, the project engineer will prepare an Exception Report or at least a feedback form explaining why recommendations have been rejected. However, occasionally there will be situations where decisions are very difficult and in these cases it may be necessary to introduce a system of arbitration. 

The Canadian experience with Road Safety Audits continues to be positive and accepted in one form or another across the country. A national educational programme implemented by the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) dramatically increased the number of qualified auditors. The instructors for the TAC programme were the authors of the TAC publication on Road Safety Audits and are all experienced auditors. The provinces of Alberta and British Columbia have produced Road Safety Audit manuals. 

It is good practice to send out a feedback form with Road Safety Audits, with the objective of getting clients to tell the Road Safety Auditors how many of the safety problems are accepted, and how many of the recommendations will be implemented. From the feedback forms returned to TMS Consultancy, it is ascertained that around 60—70% of audit recommendations are implemented. 

The Worksheet is, in a sense, an audit form. As will be shown in Chapter 21, ZIO, Other Safety Standards and Guidelines, and VPP Certification, the VPP safety management system requirements have great similarity with the ZIO provisions. However, there are differences. Some of the VPP requirements are not as specific as comparable provisions in ZIO. Those provisions are identified below along with cross-references to the relevant chapter in this text ... 

ANSI Z9.5-2003, Laboratory Ventilation, is intended for use by employers, architects, occupational and environmental health and safety professionals, and others concerned with the control of exposure to airborne contaminants. The book includes new chapters on performance tests, air cleaning, preventative maintenance, and work practices. It also highlights the standard s requirements and offers good practices for laboratories to follow. The book also offers referenced standards and publications, guidance on selecting laboratory stack designs, an audit form for ANSI Z9.5, and a sample table of contents for a laboratory ventilation management plan. 

Team size and frequency will depend on the size of the property. At the beginning of every shift, employees should inspect their work areas and equipment before starting work to ensure that all defects are noted and corrected. Figure 11.2 is a sample daily audit form. The safety reminder checklist is not a complete list of safety topics and should be structured for your work area or fadhty. Note that the items listed in Figure 11.2arenot only positive work practices, but also government requirements. 

Safety audits can be conducted using several different methods, and feedback can take both written and verbal forms. Choose the method that aligns with your company s culture and size. 

The use of workplace inspections makes it necessary to have or develop written safety and health audit instruments. These instruments need to be tailored to meet the specific needs and intended purposes. Those using audit instruments need to be trained on their use and application. This means that they should be able to identify the hazards that are recorded on the audit form and must understand the workings of the workplace, process, equipment, etc., that they are to audit. These completed instruments are a record and documentation of one facet of your safety and health effort. A written sample safety and health audit policy is found in Figure 7.4. In Figure 7.5, you can find a sample jobsite inspection that can be altered and tailored to meet the unique needs of a particular company. 

Precommissioning Studies (also known as Pre-startup Studies) are forms of process safety audits. The precommissioning review is carried out prior to the introduction of materials, and is us to chedc that actions fiom hazard stupes have been incorporated and installed and all instructions and procedures conq>ty with aity requirements identified tty previous hazard stages and are satisfectoiy for the safe operation of the plant A precoitunissioning inq)ection chedcs conq)liance with compaity and legislative rec uirements. 

The other operation was called repackaging. This operation received bulk chemicals in tank wagons or rail tank cars and either placed the chemicals in a storage tank or immediately drummed them into smaller containers. Whatever was repackaged would be placed into storage and distributed using the distribution operation. Both of these operations were under my supervision and shared the same physical location therefore, I was tasked by corporate management to perform the standard corporate safety audit on these two different operations. With the diversity between the two divisions, the use of one audit form just did not seem to fit. 

In retrospect, this company should have customized the audit form for each operation that would have fit the particular safety concerns of that operation. The corporate management did not want to deal with different audit forms they wanted consistency. They believed that using one audit form was the fair way to judge one facility against the other. What might have been an alternative would be to offer one type of audit for the repackaging operations and another audit for warehousing/distribution operations. The comparison then would have been closer to the apples to apples comparison. 

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