Plant Health and Safety Compliance Audits … what can you do?
Plant Health and Safety Compliance Audits … what can you do?
Your actions are important to business risk management!
Everyday can be an opportunity to verify effectiveness and compliance.
3 key steps to effective plant level health and safety compliance
- engage all levels in the organization to think about plant level health and safety compliance.
- Establish health and safety compliance protocols, to be used by all levels of staff members. Keep records of issues and corrective actions.
- make it a team effort … the health and safety compliance team!
Complete plant level health and safety compliance audits / inspections on a monthly basis will help you stay in compliance. What does it take to complete a monthly health and safety compliance audit.
Typically, most clients find utilization of their Health and Safety Committee a good starting point at those individuals have an interest and more training. In addition, in you are doing audits by areas in the plant, then involve your area lead hands or managers for that audit. As well, it is good to show management involvement and arrange someone from management, perhaps the President, or Plant manager. As they are legally responsible, they should have a firm hand on the status of their compliance.
Participation is key, waving the flag, involvement and interaction can make a big difference in perception of caring and effectiveness of process. After all, the process is how you will develop effectiveness and spirit with your team. We are all in the safety team, working together to go home safe!
CSA provides a manual which can be found here https://www.scc.ca/en/standardsdb/standards/28990
Regulatory requirements must be met and Health and Safety Compliance Audits provide an external view of how well your team is doing, often finding opportunities for improvement to make your team stronger.
Feel free to contact Chris at 647-921-9322 or solutions@esatco.com for more information
