Sample Action Plan

Action Item Specific Activity Initiated Completed Responsible to OSH 

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The organization will be responsible for prioritizing and developing an action plan based on the review. The action plan should describe the specific actions that will be taken, the person(s) responsible, and the completion date. Once prepared, it is the facility s responsibility to update the action plan. Refer to Appendix B for a sample action plan. 

To develop an action plan, identify the specific action items that need to be implemented. Keep to the facts and do not get into too many details. Action items should pinpoint events and critical steps to consider during implementation. Once the plan is designed, responsibility for each step can be assigned, along with an estimated target date. Refer to Appendix B for a sample action plan document. 

Appendix C Three Sample Basic Action Planning Forms C.1 Sample action plan 1... 

Audit findings or scores are useful periodic measures of improvement in PSM and ESH management. Improvement in performance between audits is generally easy to spot. Audits may not be conducted annually at each facility however, if a sufficient sample of facilities is audited each year it can provide a useful indicator of overall change across the company. Of course, the audit results are most relevant to the individual facility managers who can develop action plans for improvement based on the results. 

For both the Saint-Lawrence River Action Plan (Costan et al., 1993) and the Toyama Bay Japanese (Kusui and Blaise, 1999) studies, the two suites of bioassays employed represented three trophic levels (decomposers, primary producers and primary or secondary consumers), and sought to measure both acute and chronic toxicity. Toxicity tests were selected on the basis of practical and scientific criteria including low sample volume requirement, sensitivity, simplicity of undertaking the assay, ease in maintaining laboratory cultures, cost-effectiveness, procedural reliability and/or frequency of use internationally. 

Requiring low-sample volume micro-scale tests for its cost-effective application, the PEEP index has thus far employed bioassays with bacteria, algae and microinvertebrates. While well-standardized toxicity tests using freshwater fish existed at the time of the PEEP s conception in the early 1990 s (e.g., the Environment Canada fingerling rainbow trout 96-h lethality test to assess industrial wastewaters), they were excluded because of their large sample volume needs (e.g., close to 400 L of effluent sample required to undertake a multiple dilution 96-h LC50 bioassay in the case of the trout test). In addition to effluent sample volume, the cost of carrying out salmonid fish acute lethality bioassays for the 50 priority industrial effluents identified under SLAP I (the first 1988-93 Saint-Lawrence River Action Plan) was prohibitive. 

Their concentrate supplier s demand on the pigment manufacturer caused the pigment supplier to review sampling, testing, and process techniques. The pigment manufacturer in turn discovered that one raw material component was causing the hue shift. That raw material producer in turn reviewed its manufacturing capability and developed a corrective action plan. 

Based on case studies, many countries have tried to develop similar indices where a number of toxicological parameters are integrated with the aim of quickly measuring the potential danger of the samples, particularly industrial effluents. The potential ecotoxic effects probe (PEEP) is one of the best known. It was developed in Canada as part of the St. Lawrence River Action Plan and was used to rank the impact of 50 industrial effluents discharged daily into the St. Lawrence River (Costan elal.. 1993). 

Patient education is essential before monitoring can be effective. Patient education has proved successful regardless of the health professional who provided the information (physician, nurse, or pharmacist). The NAEPP advocates significant involvement of the primary health care provider in the educational process. The provision of written treatment plans enhances the success of education and peak-flow monitoring and is considered an essential component of care. Samples of clinically tested written action plans are available from the NAEPP Expert Panel Report 2 ... 

The statistical relevance of the action plan should be included for cross-referencing between organisations, i.e. that the plan is based on MIL-STD-105E, Inspection Level II, Normal Inspection, Table IIA AQL 1% (single sample). 

Have a detailed contract (as opposed to just a policy) that clearly spells out the duties partners owe one another. These duties include personnel responsibilities and accountabilities, corrective action plans, enforceable provisions for restitution, and so forth. Only 18% of our sample reported having a formal contract relating to IT security and supply chain partners. 

The Federal Government. Bior neries roadmap as part of the German Federal Government action plans for the material and energetic utilisation of renewable raw materials. Berlin 2012. http //mediathek.fnr.de/med ia/downloadable/files/samples/r/o/ roadmap web en.pdf. 

Written inspection reports should be designed to record hazards found during the inspection. One individual or team should be responsible for developing an action plan, and tracking hazards to completion. Refer to Appendix C for a sample report. 

Many companies use forms that document hazards identified for the purpose of developing a corrective action plan. Inspection reports include discussions about hazard correction along with the information about the hazard. Forms that employees use to report hazards and incidents should provide a space for description of the action plan. Refer to Chapter 11 and Appendix B for more detail. Notice that each of these forms has a line for corrective actions [2], Refer to Table 11-6 for a sample pohcy for employees to report hazards. Appendix C provides other forms for employees to report various hazards. 

Once individual risks have been evaluated using a semi-quantitative approach, it is possible to establish formalised action plans based upon the risk grading - a sample is shown in Table 5.4. 

On an LDI report, results are displayed as percentiles. Thus each leader can compare his or her personal scores with a large database of other leaders scores. This comparison leads naturally to the development of an action plan for the individual safety leader. Figure 5-2 shows a sample report. 

The design of this fish study centered on sample collection, preservation, preparation, analysis, and QA/QC. There was no discussion of the effect of compositing on the sample population. No description was given of statistical techniques to be applied to the data for reporting results and for comparison with action levels and future data. Unfortunately, the omission of a statistical framework during planning of the field study is the rule rather than the exception in hazardous waste investigations. 

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