Safety inspection site

Employers must admit OSHA compliance officers into their plant sites for safety inspections with no advance notice. A search warrant may be required to show probable cause. 

During on-site safety inspection, supervisors usually find various issues. If a company carries out a result-oriented management, issue means failure and punishment. The way of thinking issues makes employee have a negative attitude, which is adverse to solve problems fundamentally. As we known. Kaizen roots in oriental culture with Humanism. So, Kaizen weakens the contradiction of problems, and make people concentrate on process of solving problems rather than on dealing with confliction of interpersonal relationship. In brief, Kaizen could enhance the efficiency and quality on problems solving. 

Vigor and example Did management set high personal safety standards Was management s participation in safety meetings, safety committees, safety award presentations, and other safety functions highly visible Did management participate in work site safety inspections ... 

FRA s traditional site-specific safety inspection program has produced substantial gains in railroad safety with real benefits for the American people... These substantial safety improvements occurred even as freight railroad traffic and train density increased to record levels following economic deregulation of the industry as a result of the Staggers Rail Act of 1980. 

An Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) worksite safety inspection. There are five types of site inspections that OSHA conducts. These are listed as follows in their order of importance, as determined by OSHA ... 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers requires contractors who perform construction work for the federal government to prepare a safety and occupational health plan (SOH). The idea is to analyze the potential work on a specific job or project and to plan accident prevention measures for each phase and component of the work. The plan includes work performed by subcontractors. It includes contractor hazard control measures. The plan must include frequent and regularly scheduled safety inspections of work sites, materials and equipment by competent persons. 

The site plan concept provides an overall view of plants requiring safety inspection and establishing an early warning system for possible changes of use or process. Within this general control, detailed controls may be elaborated. If it is desired to Introduce a new plant on the site, a more detailed plant specification must then be produced. This specification must indicate the type of process to be introduced, the nature of the materials to be processed, the nature and volume of likely wastes, the main nuclear hazards, aiid a Design Safety Report, which is a statement of the principles and means for the control of safety. This information must be submitted to the Inspectorate before the licensee begins to construct the new plant on his site. 

Periodic site safety inspections involve supervisors... 

Safety inspections of the jobsite will occur periodically every (Insert Frequency), when conditions change, or when a new process or procedure is implemented. These inspections should focus on the identification and correction of potential safety, health, and fire hazards. Individuals should use the site evaluation worksheet when conducting jobsite safety inspections. In addition, the safe work procedures should be reviewed by personnel conducting safety inspections of the jobsite. 

Case 3. A chemical company with 1,200 employees has found numerous ways to include its employees in the site s safety and health program. For example, the Safety and Health Committee, which includes equal labor and management representatives, has responsibility for a variety of activities, such as monthly plant inspections, incident investigations, and examination of any unsafe conditions in the plant. Employees are also involved in process and operations review, safety inspection, and quality teams. Two hourly employees work fulltime at monitoring the safety and health performance of on-site contractors. 

Upon arrival at the inspection site and before the commencement of the inspection, the inspection team shall be briefed by facility representatives, with the aid of maps and other documentation as appropriate, on the facility, the activities carried out there, safety measures and administrative and logistic arrangements necessary for the inspection. The time spent for the briefing shall be limited to the minimum necessary and in any event not exceed three hours. 

In carrying out their activities, inspectors and inspection assistants shall observe safety regulations established at the inspection site, including those for the protection of controlled environments within a facility and for personal safety. In order to implement these requirements, appropriate detailed procedures shall be considered and approved by the Conference pursuant to Article VIII, paragraph 21 (i). 

To ensure the health and safety of inspection team members and of the inspected site without impairing confidentiality during all inspections, particularly challenge inspections, and subject to the provisions of the Convention, the following procedures shall apply whenever the inspected State Party deems appropriate ... 

Site safety tours and site safety inspections >- Activity observation ... 

It is often the case that a fire safety inspection will not identify issues such as the control of contractors as being a risk, unless contractors and maintenance operations are being undertaken at the time of inspection. This issue must be included in a risk assessment as it is reasonably foreseeable that contractors may either compromise the safety of those on site while undertaking their operations, or compromise fire safety compartments or other control systems. 

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