Workplace Safety Audit in Meerut

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It is recommended that a team be established to conduct safety audit. Each team should be comprised of at least three to five people representing a variety of departments. To ensure neutrality and objectivity, it is suggested that team members should not audit their own department. Audits may also be conducted by qualified consultants. Audit Team members should review all existing safety program material in advance of the safety audit. Safety Audits are conducted for the purpose of health, safety, and fire hazard identification. During these surveys, assessments are made for compliance to applicable regulations and fire codes as well as the detection of unsafe hazards. Audits also provide an evaluation of workplace compliance to Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA standards relating workplace and worker safety. Audits of work sites are conducted for the purpose of health, safety, and fire hazard identification. During these surveys, assessments are made for compliance to applicable building and fire codes and the detection of unsafe hazards. Work site audits also provide an evaluation of compliance to Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA standards relating to ergonomics, respirator use, hearing conservation, bloodborne pathogens and use of personal protective equipment. Ergonomics, the study of work and the relationships of carious stressors on the individual, can be identified through the building audits. The objective of ergonomics is to adapt the job and workplace to the worker by designing tasks, workstations, tools, and equipment to the abilities of the worker. Conducting a single annual comprehensive safety audit can actually hide the facts and hazards that you may want to discover. The single annual audit approach may tend to create a safety ramp up effect, by managers and supervisors, as the audit time approaches. A better approach may be to schedule various specific safety audits throughout the year on a ten month schedule. The eleventh month should be reserved for a comprehensive annual audit. Consider using the same topic schedule for your annual refresher training program. There are four basic questions a safety audit should answer. The persons or team designated to conduct the audits should take a fact finding approach to gather data. These auditors should be familiar with both the company program and the various local, state and federal requirements. All safety audit comments, recommendations and corrective actions should focus on these four questions.1. Does the program cover all regulatory and best industry practice requirements,2. Are the program requirements being met,3. Is there documented proof of compliance,4. Is employee training effective can and do they apply specific safe behaviours. Safety Audits are primarily to check the effectiveness of the various programs, they do not take the place of regular facility inspections. Facility safety inspections for hazards and their control should be performed on a weekly basis by supervisors and on a monthly basis by management. A third party audit allows for fresh eyes and a different approach to research, review, and analysis of company safety programs. There are four major benefits of conducting third party safety audits Knowledge and validation, third party audit companies have vast experience in conducting an audit in a different environment in a different situation. This gives you the best policies, programmes to strengthen the industry.  Third party providers can serve to validate existing programmes and provide recommendation for growth or change when deemed necessary. Objectivity, third party audits provide you with a neutral verdict about the companies existing system, policies, and process without the natural familiarity that occurs over time with regular staff and day to day routines.

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