Safety issues audits

The regular HSS was on a month s leave. Responsibility for management of site safety and health at Site A was assigned to several individuals ineluding the response manager, the Teehnieal Assistanee Team (TAT), health and safety oflfieer (HSO), and the on-seene eoordinator. It was not elear at the time of the audit whieh of these individuals aetually fulfilled the role of full-time HSO, nor was it elear how these individuals would eoordinate and eommunieate on overlapping health and safety issues. 

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. ... 

Product verification requires inspection and testing programs to confirm that product meets the quality requirements. In PSM and ESH terms, the product is the management of environmental, health and safety issues and may be difficult to separate from measurement (Chapter 7) and Audit. 

Two other federal authorities, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the General Accounting Office (GAO), also have a role. The NTSB investigates reportable pipeline incidents to determine the causes and to make recommendations to the OPS for future prevention. The GAO audits the OPS for performance against its mission and makes recommendations for improvements, if needed. A report, issued by GAO in 2000, reviewed progress on pipeline safety issues by the OPS. ... 

Most centers or offices have access to a wide network of inspectors. These inspectors operate worldwide, and audit both animal and clinical studies, as well as manufacturing processes and premises. Such audits can be for cause , e.g. a complaint from the public or an emergent safety issue, or routine . Pivotal clinical trials in a submitted NDA or BLA will usually garner an inspection of the clinical trials sites and statutory documentation. 

In the specific implementation of a safety audit project, safety audit project leader should be fully aware of the following circumstances, an initid assessment of the importance of this safety audit and audit risk (1) ask the audited entity related personnel and related management (2) access to the audited entity s operations manual, the internal control manual and other information (3) access to the audited entity annual production and safety plans, financial budget and other documents (4) check the safety activities or safety issues certificates and records (5) examine the audited unit production, business activities and the implementation of internal control (6) select the number of safety events to be tested. 

External safety system audits were arranged, and external international auditors spent a week on the property evaluating the safety system. A four-star safety rating was achieved and issued by the National Occupational Safety Association (NOSA) of South Africa. The internal trained auditors then followed up with 6-monthly internal audits. 

The RCSC conducts appraisals of the HCF at least annually, and the RCSC Charter identifies criticality-safety items to be included in the audit. HCF criticality-safety issues are documented and followed up in accordance with SNL ES H requirements of GN470072, which are reflected in nuclear facility operations procedures. HCF operational procedures require a record of HCF fissile inventory at ail times. These records shall be used and maintained to document compliance with criticality mass limits. 

Patient safety indicators have almost always been considered quantitative by nature (e.g. EUNetPas 2010 33 Kristensen et al. 2007 7). However, qualitative indicators can also provide important information on patient safety. For example, personnel s expressions of worry about patient safety issues in the organisation or quality audits that provide a written summary evaluation provide important information about patient safety - often more important than the quantitative indicators do. The problem of the quantification of, for example, adverse events and near misses is the loss of context, i.e. the loss of the story behind the incidents (Dekker 2011 Reiman and Rollenhagen 2011). Instead of data analysis it is merely a classification of data (Dekker 2011 143). Too often this classification is taken as a sufficient basis for managerial decisionmaking in situations that should require more in-depth analysis of the individual... 

Safety personnel can help lab safety by providing training, resources, and consultation for a variety of laboratory safety issues, including chemical safety, biological safety, electrical safety, laser safety, radiation safety, and other topics. They can also review the chanical hygiene plan, help develop and maintain laboratory safety manuals, conduct exposure monitoring, inspect fume hoods, and perform safety audits. 

Process safety issues and concerns may come as a result of a process hazard analysis or revalidation, an incident investigation, an audit finding or a review of delays in required mechanical integrity tests and inspections. The appropriate priority must be... 

Road Safety Audit is not an opportunity to redesign a scheme or to make changes to design with no apparent link to a safety issue. It is not intended to be a technical check on the design elements nor a... 

Experience has shown that two people carrying out a Road Safety Audit will identify more potential safety issues than a single Road Safety Auditor. The number of items to be checked, particularly on large highway schemes, can be onerous. Large numbers of detailed scheme plans may have to be examined. In addition, it is helpful to be able to discuss possible recommendations with another Road Safety Auditor. Using a Road Safety Audit Team helps to avoid the situation in which a single Road Safety Auditor can sometimes overemphasise a particular issue because of that individual s experience or even prejudice. 

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. 

Some audits continue to be imdertaken against design standards, rather than against the likelihood of crashes (an experience issue). Some TDesign and Construct contracts struggle to effectively deal with road safety issues within the audit process. 

The Canadian approach to Road Safety Audits includes the traditional aspects of identifying the safety issues and also includes a subjective risk rating as well as a few suggested solutions. The subjective risk rating was requested by the recipients of the Road Safety Audits so that they could apply a priority hierarchy in addressing the issues. The inclusion of a few potential solutions was to fully utilise the expertise of the auditors who have a professional engineer on the team with expertise in road safety. 

However, there is clearly a cost implication in carrying out this work. Is it cost-effective to insist on a Road Safety Audit if the audit turns out to be a substantial part of the overall cost It could be argued that there should be a cut-off based on the cost of scheme. Experience has shown that safety issues are identified even on very small schemes, and a cost cut-off of, say, 20 000 would miss some of these schemes. 

The Road Safety Audits that are carried out are often confined to the access onto the highway network and the auditors may not have sufficient information to complete the audit. Further, there may be road safety issues within the development site itself that are not... 

In some cases a client is unable to adopt recommendations due to design constraints. In other cases the client does not believe that the issue raised is a legitimate safety problem that could lead to road accident casualties. Tables lO.l and 10.2 show the safety issues most frequently accepted and rejected by SaferCity in response to TMS Road Safety Audits. 

Although reviewing the OSHA log is a good tool for auditing a management system, it is only one of many tools that can be used. Such an approach takes only a proactive look at the management system once a safety issue has occurred. Ideally, a company should try to be proactive in their approach [9]. 

Fire Similar to housekeeping audits, fire audits are focused on life safety issues that are applicable in the event of a fire. This can include the verification of fire pump operation, clearance of sprinkler heads from obstruction, and clear paths of egress in the event that an evacuation must occur. Also similar to housekeeping audits, fire audits can take place on a weekly or monthly basis in the span of a few hours. 

Pedestrian Road Safety Audit Guidelines and Prompt Lists http //drusilla.hsrc.unc.edu/ cms/downloads/PedRSA.reduced.pdf (accessed August 18, 2010). U.S. Federal Highway Administration. Outlines basic concepts used in conducting pedestrian road safety audits. The guidelines provide detailed descriptions of potential pedestrian safety issues. 

To review accidents, incidents, collect statistics, analyse trends on occupational health and study reports on health, safety and fire safety issues >- To review new, existing and recurring issues revealed by safety audits... 

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