- What is safety audit?
- The safety audit is the process that identifies un-safe conditions and unsafe acts the plant and recommended safety improvement. Walk through It evaluates the unsafe condition notice able to naked eye during work through the plant. (Stores, civil work, erection work) Inter mediate-more details study and review of plant design and plant operation. Comprehensive? It evaluates the safety factors in the plant on the base engineering, analysis, testing, and measurement.
- What is inspection?
- Inspection means to find out hazards according to checklist prepared with reference to the department operations by the people who are familiar with the plant.
- Plant safety inspections by whom?
- Safety officer
- By line management personal
- By senior management personnel
- First line supervisor
- By maintenance engineers
- By workers
- By safety committee
- By statutory authorities
- How many types inspection?
- There are 5 types inspection; pressures of boilers (supervisor)
- Continuous inspection: select employees / operator
- Periodical Inspection: material storage, fire fighting equipments, handling equipments
- Intermittent inspection: unannounced inspection done by safety officer, safety committee. (Particular work spot)
- Statutory inspection: storage area, location at height (cranes, ropes, chains, it my tackles inspection)
- Special inspection: accident investigation, Inspection of new building, general lighting, use of PPE’s etc. construction work
- How is audit conducted?
- Preliminary visit and understanding the factory
- Identify the audit element
- Prepare the questionnaire
- Get the reply from the company
- Discussion with management, executives & workers.
- Cross Verification at site
- Preparation of report.
- What are audit elements?
- OS&H policy, educational training, safety manual and rules, new equipments, safety inspection, machine guarding, material handling safe operating procedures noise.
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