Safety reporting audits

This audit led to the formation of two teams, one to tackle locomotive design issues and the other for safety reporting and action. As a result of team activities, many ergonomic actions were implemented. These included management actions to ensure a uniform wagon fleet, autonomous inspection/ repair teams for tracks, and multifunctional teams for safety initiatives. 

Typici stakeholders in model evaluation are the model developers, safety officers in industry and consultants applying models during preparation of safety reports, and authorities facing approval of these safety reports. The preferable approach is that either a model developer or a user is able to undert e the evaluation. An independent agent with appropriate expertise can also undertake the evaluation. Because the question of impartiaUty may be raised, the relation between the evaluator and the model should be documented. In each case, however, the evaluation report should be fully verifiable (e.g., by means of an audit). 

Work Safety reports proced ires Audits... 

A DO IT process can define desirable behaviors to be encouraged or undesirable behaviors to be changed. What the process focuses on in your workplace depends on a review of your safety records, job hazard analyses, near-hit reports, audit findings, interviews with employees, and other useful information. 

The methods used include providing a learning environment and effective informal issue communication, independent analysis. Red Teams (critical independent reviewers), management benchmarking, inspections, safety performance audits, on-site presence, intensive bottom-up reporting, and most of all assuring personal responsibility and accountability. 

Hazard summary sheets (as shown in Table 3.11) provide a framework for the safety report preparation (where appropriate), future training, and auditing. 

Establish an effective safety management system/process. Nominate key roles/ responsibilities. Define approval signatories - especially for safety reports. Establish independent verification/audit to reduce chance of undetected error. Establish a workforce-wide commitment to product integrity. Learn from previous mistakes. Initiate a documentary audit trail (identify, log and track all hazards). Airworthiness and safety must be foremost in the minds of the entire organisation. Furthermore, as many legal cases turn on documentation, it is essential that risk assessment activities and choices are documented and that records are kept. ... 

Exeept for the bolded seetions, the following information was taken direetly from a report entitled EPA/LABOR Superfund Elealth and Safety Taskforee OSHA Audits of Superfund Sites 1993 to 1996, dated August 25, 1997. The report is lengthy, so the authors have only ineluded parts of the report they felt to be pertinent to the subjeets within the main body of the book. 

The aforementioned reviews and assessments were assimilated to characterize the effect of dielectric, rotational, and mechanical hazards on motor performance and operational readiness. Functional indicators were identified that can be monitored to assess motor component deterioration caused by aging or other accidental stressors. The study also includes a preliminary discussion of current standards and guides, maintenance programs, and research activities pertaining to nuclear power plant safety-related electric motors. Included are motor manufacturer recommendations, responses from repair facilities to a questionnaire, in-service inspection data, expert knowledge, USNRC-IE audit reports, and standards and guides published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). 

Management must institute procedures to assess levels of compliance with agreed standards for safety. Techniques include environmental and/or biological monitoring, health surveillance, safety audits, safety inspections, and procedures for accident reporting, investigation and analysis. Communication is essential, e.g. by provision of information (on specific chemicals, processes, etc.), safety meetings, notices, safety bulletins etc. 

The tangible data retrieved from databases, reports and forms in an organization are (safety ) incidents, inspections, audits. 

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