Safety audits not only pinpoint problems, but they also encourage and maintain employee awareness of and interest in workplace safety. That makes them a great training tool.
Regular, frequent, and thorough self-inspections are not only an excellent way to prevent safety and health problems, they’re also a strong and flexible training tool, according to BLR’s Safety Audit Checklists.
Self-inspections:
- Reinforce training
- Identify the need for further training
- Involve workers in making the workplace safer
Here are some suggestions for encouraging employee participation in the audit process.
Ask for employee input in developing audit checklists. Safety Audit Checklists can provide you with a basic audit checklist, which you and your employees can add to and customize to suit specific safety and health issues in your workplace.
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Try a rotation system to give different employees audit responsibilities each time you conduct a self-inspection. That way, overtime, a large number of workers will have the chance to participate.
Appoint a team to look into a specific regulation that applies, or could apply, to your workplace and is frequently cited for violations. The team can answer questions such as:
- What are likely causes of violations?
- What are the solutions to these problems?
- How well does your organization comply with the law?
- What changes could improve compliance and safety?
The greater the employee participation in safety and health audits, the farther the sense of responsibility for safety extends.
When you consider the importance OSHA places on awareness training, safety audits that heighten safety awareness of a wide range of important issues are clearly a boon to any organization.
What’s more, self-inspections, when coupled with good-faith attempts to correct hazards, can work in your favor in the event of an OSHA inspection.
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Ready-Made Checklists
BLR’s Safety Audit Checklists provides safety and health checklists on more than 50 essential workplace topics, including one entitled “Self-Inspection Audits.”
Each checklist helps improve workplace safety, ensure OSHA compliance, and determine just the right content for your next round of safety training sessions.
Each Safety Audit Checklists section contains:
- A review of applicable OSHA standards
- Safety management tips
- Training requirements
- At least one comprehensive safety checklist
Many sections also contain a compliance checklist, which highlights key provisions of OSHA standard. All checklists can be copied and circulated to supervisors and posted for employees.
All told, this best-selling program provides you with more than 300 separate safety checklists keyed to three main criteria:
- OSHA compliance checklists, built right from the government standards in such key areas as HazCom, lockout/tagout, electrical safety, and many more.
- “Plaintiff attorney” checklists, built around those non-OSHA issues that often attract lawsuits.
- Safety management checklists that monitor the administrative procedures you need to have for topics such as OSHA 300 Log maintenance, training program scheduling and recording, and OSHA-required employee notifications.
Make as many copies as you need for all your supervisors and managers, and distribute. What’s more, the entire program is updated annually. And the cost averages only about $1 per checklist.
If this method of ensuring a safer, more OSHA-compliant workplace interests you, we’ll be happy to make Safety Audit Checklists available for a no-cost, no-obligation, 30-day evaluation in your office. Just let us know, and we’ll be pleased to arrange it.