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Safety inspection:
The term safety inspection can be applied to:
Routing inspection, statutory inspection, periodic inspection and pre use inspection
Sampling:
For example in large office which have 1200 fire extinguishers must be inspected by competent engineer
then there are several ways to check
1. to check the inspection record to ensure all FE are signed
2. check all 1200 FE directly on by one
3. check 50 FE randomly from 1200 FE
Item no 3 is sampling
Safety Tours:
A safety tour is high profile inspection of a workplace carried out by a group of managers
Safety Survey:
Safety survey of one particular issue or topic
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Reactive monitoring uses accidents, incidents, ill health, and other unwanted events and situations as
indicators of health and safety performance
We can calculate Accident Incident Rate (AIR) by this formula
AIR = ,
number of accident during a specific time period . X 1000
Average numbers of workers over the same time period
Various factors must be considered when setting up an inspection system such as:
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Gathering information:
Reviewing performance relies on data gathered from various sources such as:
1. Accident data
2. Inspections
3. Absence and sickness data
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4. Safety surveys, tours and sampling
5. Audit reports
6. Other sources (e.g. complaint form workers or QA reports)
Reporting on performance:
Safety specialists usually play a key role in collecting this data and reporting on performance to senior
management.
Continues improvement:
Review enables action to be taken so that health and safety performance is continuously improved.
Explain the meaning of term health and safety audit and describe the preparations that may
need prior, during and after audit? Or
Define health and safety auditing?
Auditing:
Auditing is the systematic, objective, critical evaluation of an organizations health and safety
management system
Purpose of auditing:
Auditing is mechanism for verify that an organizations safety management is in place and operating
effectively. It will check that
1. Appropriate management arrangement is in place.
2. Adequate risk control systems exist.
3. Appropriate workplace precautions are in place
During audit:
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During audit three different types of evidence will be sought:
1. Documents and records
2. Interviews
3. Direct observations in the workplace.
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