Monitoring safety improvement is very important. This is why we have chosen to discuss ways to monitor safety improvement at Workplace.
Every employer of labour is legally obliged to maintain a safe and healthy work environment for both their staff and clients. Depending on the kind of business, every organisation has its own unique health and safety system, contingent to the hazards involved. What is important is that your safety and health management system are active for the organisation.
A safe and healthy workplace is only achievable when there is a planned and systematic approach to managing risks. There should be an understanding to exposures and safety risks in your workplace. The harmful consequences of each and control measures that will be taken to help put them into check.
Below are steps to monitor safety improvement in our workplace.
1. Identify every potential Hazards.
Both employers and employees should begin by identifying hazards in the workplace, through analysing situations that can be an immediate threat or cause harm over a period of time. The following method can help with hazards Identification;
– Physical work environment.
– Tasks and how they are performed
– Equipments, materials and substances.
– Work design and management
Hazards are caused by different risk activities, so the organization need to be aware of the exact activities which are likely to pose hazard.
2. Risk Assessment
Risk Assessment is considering what would happen if someone is exposed to a hazard. Risk assessment helps you evaluate potential risks in a workplace and allows you to determine severity of a risk, as this help to know whether existing control measures are effective or not and how urgent actions should be taken to control it.
Risk assessment should be conducted when;
– It is uncertain how a hazard may cause injury or illness.
– The work activity presents a number of different hazards.
– There are workplace changes that may affect the effectiveness of control measures.
3. Risk Control
Once the situation that can pose hazards to the organization is noticed, the next step is to take risk assessment after which the organization should engage the function of risk control, this involves knowing the control measures that should be put in place. Risk control is check through the following;
a. Eliminate the hazard.
b. Substitute hazard with something safer.
c. Isolate the hazard from people.
d. Reduce risks through engineering controls.
e. Minimise exposure to the hazard using administrative actions.
f. Utilise personal protective equipment.
With these steps being out in place, then we are set for the next step.
4. Affirm and monitor control measures.
Organization should ensure regular checking to make sure that the implemented control measures are effective through:
– Engaging with workers and getting feedbacks.
– Inspections and observations and walkthroughs.
– Environmental monitoring such as air quality and noise testing.
5. Continuous Improvements
Every organization will need to follow up with continuous Improvements to ensure safety is being monitored accurately.
The use of a Safety and Health Program Assessment Worksheet to review progress.
– Review activities to identify new risks.
– Investigate incidents as they occur.
– Conduct frequent inspections on equipment and processes.
– Ensure hazard correction systems are in place.
– Evaluate effectiveness of training.
– Document all safety efforts.
– Engage staff to identify areas of improvement.
With all the above listed point being put in place, monitoring of safety will be effective and this would bring more results.
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