Walk-rounds inspections

Care should also be taken in the use of recovery factors, because these can exert a significant effect. In general, recovery paths are appropriate where there is a specific mechanism to aid error recovery, that is an alarm, a supervising check, or a routine walk round inspection. 

The fitter who installed the expansion joint incorrectly could have prevented the fire. So could the person who was responsible for her or his training and supervision so could the designers if they had not specified an expansion joint, had carried out a HAZOP, or had consulted experts so could the author of the company s design standards, and those responsible for the training of designers those responsible for inspection of workmanship, and anyone who kept his or her eyes open when walking round the plant. 

Walk-rounds are used to conduct ongoing daily safety inspections of the workplace. This type of inspection identifies obvious or observable blatant hazards or visible risk that related to unsafe work practices or conditions. 

All the walking routes they re supposed to be made sure they are all right, just don t have time to do it. Cut down on the staff and you re expected to do the same things. Ladder inspections—haven t got the time to go round and do those. Cut down on supervisors, who s going to do it ... I have to honestly say I can t be possibly following them all because there s insufficient time. The intention is there but there is so much else to do nowadays, the pressures are enormous, financial as well as everything else, this just has to take its place, (manager, interviewee 110)... 

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