SAFETY AUDIT AND

INSPECTION
BY:
Ilag, Janella*Jane R.
ChE-4102

Safety Audit

Safety Audit
are report cards on the success of
safety
and
health
programs,
environmental
programs,
and
process safety management
are structured evaluations on
performance and compliance.
is
a
structured,
methodical
assessment and evaluation of how
workplace activities affect safety
and health.

 is a planned and documented

activity performed by qualified
personnel
to
determine
by
investigation,
examination,
or
evaluation of objective evidence,
the adequacy and compliance with
established
procedures,
or
applicable documents, and the
effectiveness of implementation

Safety
Inspectio
n

Safety Inspection
a basic tool for establishing and
maintaining safe conditions and
discovering unsafe practices in
the workplace
are practical ways to identify and
correct
unsafe
equipment,
conditions, processes, and work
practices.

The purpose of inspections is to

identify:
Potential problems;
Equipment deficiencies;
Improper employee action;
Inadequacies in hazard controls
or remedial actions; and,
The effects of change, including
new hazards that were not
previously identified.

Types Of Inspection:
(1)Technical Safety Inspection
shall refer to inspection for the
purpose of safety determination
of boilers, pressure vessels,
internal combustion engines,
electrical installations, elevators,
hoisting equipment and other
mechanical equipment.

(2) General Safety Inspection

shall refer to inspection of the
work environment, including the
location
and
operation
of
machinery other than those
covered by technical safety
inspections,
adequacy
of
workspace, ventilation, lighting,
conditions of work environment,
handling,
storage
or
work
procedures, protection facilities

(3) Continuous Activity

is a continuing plant activity to
discover
conditions
that
if,
uncorrected may lead accidents
and injuries which are essential to
a first rate safety performance.
(4) Preventive Maintenance
is a scheduled safety inspection
carried
on
by
the
plants
maintenance personnel or plant
engineer to prevent breakdowns
and lengthen the life of machines

(5) Special Inspection

is usually in the form of

investigations and made of special
information purposes.
(6) Formal Inspections
are planned, careful, systematic
and periodic examinations of the
workplace which are conducted
by the Occupational Health and
Safety
committee
or
the
Workplace Health and Safety
representative.

(7) Informal Inspections

are
ongoing
inspections
continually
conducted
by
supervisors and workers as part
of their job responsibilities.
Hazardous conditions are noted
and
are
either
corrected
immediately or reported for
corrective
action.
These
inspections do not usually
generate inspection reports.

(8) Pre-use Inspections

refer to
inspections of
equipment before it is put in
operation.

Authority
For
Inspectio
n

1982 : Authority to Chartered

Cities:
The Department may delegate
enforcement of this Standards to
chartered cities, subject to the
conditions provided herein, the
authority to conduct technical
safety inspection in workplaces
within
their
respective
jurisdictions, together with the
undertaking of other related

1982.01 : City Service Plan:

Chartered cities that desire to
assume responsibility for technical
safety inspection as defined above
shall submit a request to the
Secretary, through the Regional
Labor Office concerned with the
following requirements:

(1) A plan containing:

a. Copy of the city ordinance or other
appropriate authority enabling the city to
establish and operate a safety service
adequate for the purpose of technical
safety inspection;
b. A description of the safety service as
organized, including its organizational
structure, statement of functions, name
and qualifications of each personnel, tools
and equipment available, and where the
service shall be organizationally attached;

c. An undertaking that the safety

standards established by the Department
including rules, standards and orders shall
be complied with in the conduct of the
activities of the service;
d. The number of establishments to be
covered by inspection activities of the
service;
and
e. An undertaking that the reports
required by said standards, rules and
orders shall be submitted to the

(2) Personnel:
Every safety service shall, for the
purpose of technical safety inspection as
provided herein, have at least one
professional mechanical or electrical
engineer for the first five hundred (500)
inspectionable units and one registered
mechanical or electrical engineer or
master electrician for every other five
hundred
(500)
inspectionable
units
depending on the safety service applied
for, with the necessary clerical support

(3) Tools, Equipment and Other Facilities:

Every city safety service authorized to
conduct technical safety inspection shall
be equipped with the following:
a. Slide rule
b. Collapsible steel tape
c. Engineering Scale
d. Flashlight
e. Boiler testing hammer
f. Depth gauge, micrometer, inside
and outside caliper

h. Sealing pliers
i. Hook-on volt ammeter
j. Megger tester
k. Safety goggle
l. Tachometer
m.Hard hat
n. Safety shoes

Compliance Safety and Health

Officers of the Department of Labor
are authorized to enter without delay
and at reasonable times any factory,
plant, establishment, construction
site, or other area, workplace or
environment
where
work
is
performed by an employee of an
employer.

OSHAs Inspection Priorities

Imminent Danger
is any condition where there is
reasonable
certainty
that
a
danger exists that can be
expected to cause death or
serious
physical
harm
immediately or before the danger
can be eliminated through normal
enforcement procedures.

Catastrophes And Fatal Accidents

Second priority goes to the
investigation of fatalities and
accidents resulting in a death or
hospitalization of three or more
employees.
The employer must report such
catastrophes to OSHA within 8
hours.

Complaints And Referrals

Third priority goes to formal

employee complaints of unsafe or
unhealthful working conditions and
to referrals from any source about a
workplace hazard.

Complaints And Referrals

Third priority goes to formal

employee complaints of unsafe or
unhealthful working conditions and
to referrals from any source about a
workplace hazard.

Results of an
Inspection

Citations
inform
the
employer
and
employees of the regulations and
standards alleged to have been
violated and of the proposed length
of time set to correct alleged
hazards

Violation And Penalties

Serious Violation
A violation where there is a
substantial
probability
that
death or serious physical harm
could result. OSHA assesses the
penalty for a serious violation
from
$1,500
to
$7,000
depending on the gravity of the
violation.

Other-Than-Serious Violation
A violation that has a direct
relationship to job safety and
health, but probably would not
cause death or serious physical
harm. OSHA may assess a penalty
from $0 to $1,000 for each
violation. The agency may adjust a
penalty for an other-than-serious
violation downward by as much as

Willful Violation
A violation that the employer
intentionally and knowingly commits.
The employer is aware that a
hazardous condition exists, knows that
the condition violates a standard or
other obligation of the Act, and makes
no reasonable effort to eliminate it.
OSHA may propose penalties of up to
$70,000 for each willful violation. The
minimum willful penalty is $5,000.

Repeated Violation
A violation of any standard,
regulation, rule, or order where,
upon re-inspection, a substantially
similar violation is found and the
original citation has become a
final order. Violations can bring a
fine or up to $70,000 for each
such violation within the previous
3 years.

Failure-to-Abate
Abatement means action by an
employer to comply with a cited
standard or regulation or to eliminate a
recognized hazard identified by OSHA
during an inspection.
Failure to correct a prior violation
may bring a civil penalty of up to
$7,000 for each day that the violation
continues beyond the prescribed
abatement date.

INTERNATIONAL
SAFETY TRAINING
SYSTEM

One
of
the
most
comprehensive safety audit
system

A safety audit is an investigation in an

organization in which an evaluation is
made of what that organization is doing
to control accidents/incidents, to prevent
undesired events from happening and to
limit the consequences in case the event
would still take place.
Safety audits are carried out using
safety audit "systems".

Safety Audit Systems

contain questionnaires which lead us
through the organization concerned
At the end they are intended to provide
us with the strong and weak points of
the structured safety and loss control
management activities.
A good audit tool enables to make
relations
between
the
various
safety/loss control activities included
and therefore one can indeed speak of
a safety audit system rather than
just a "questionnaire".

The ISRS involves 20 elements as

part of the "core" safety/loss control
audit system.
1. Leadership and administration
2. Leadership training
3. Planned
inspections
and
maintenance
4. Critical
tasks-analysis
and
procedures
5. Accident/Incident analysis
6. Job observations

9. Knowledge and skill training

10. Personal protective equipment
11. Health and hygiene control
12. System evaluation
13. Engineering and change
management
14. Individual Communications
15. Group Communications
16. General Promotion
17. Hiring and Placement
18. Accident/Incident investigation

19. Materials and services

management
20. Off- the- job safety

ISRS helps to :
Ensure business operartions are safe
and sustainable.
Ensure systematic and effective risk
management.
Save money by reducing your
accidents, process stoppages and other
loss events.
Provide assurance to stakeholders
that external standards are being met.
Establish regulatory compliance.

 Benchmark

performance
against
industry peers and world class.
Highlight
current
strengths
and
weakness in the management system.
Identify any improvements required
and monitor their implementation.
Establish optimized work processes
using industry best practice.
Develop employee skills and foster
the right workplace behaviors and
culture.

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