Effective Safety & Health
Assessments:
Audits and Inspections
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Why Conduct Safety
Audits and Inspections?
 Protect your most valuable assets: your employees
 Detect and eliminate unsafe conditions and unsafe acts before incidents occur
 Verify compliance with federal and local regulations, as well as company policies, rules and procedures
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Audits vs. Inspections
 Inspections
 Periodic surveys of facilities, equipment, hazard exposures, work practices and behaviors
 Audits
 Systematic review of safety systems, programs and practices
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Who / How Often?
 Inspections are conducted by managers, supervisors or employees who have the ability to identify hazards in the workplace
 Before you determine how often to conduct audits and inspections, define the purpose and objectives
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What To Document
 What was wrong
 Where it occurred
 Action taken (or recommended) to correct
 Assigned responsibility to correct (or get management to delegate)
 The correction due date
 A follow-up or verification date

Communicate Results
 Management, supervisors and employees need to know the results of the audit / inspection
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Follow Up
 Have hazards or behavior been eliminated or modified?
 Are trends developing that need to be addressed?

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Summary: Leadership's Role
 Establish an assessment system
 Audit and see that others are conducting assessments
 See that corrective actions are taken
 Review assessment information

Quiz
All Questions True or False
Q: Conducting safety audits and inspections will help detect and eliminate unsafe conditions and unsafe acts before incidents occur.
A: True
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Quiz
All Questions True or False
Q: An inspection is a systematic review of safety systems, programs and practices.
A: False
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Quiz
All Questions True or False
Q: Inspections should only be conducted by managers and supervisors who have the ability to identify hazards in the workplace.
A: False
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Quiz
All Questions True or False
Q: Audit and inspection results should be communicated to management, supervisors and employees.
A: True
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Quiz
All Questions True or False
Q: Follow-up is an important step in audit and inspection processes.
A: True
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Resources
 Facilitator Guide
 Sample Inspection Checklist

LOWER INCIDENTS
No one gets hurt at work through LOWER* incidents.
*(Limiting Oilfield Workers'
Exposures and Risks)
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