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Workplace Safety Audit
In the world of workplace safety, one of the cornerstones is the workplace safety audit. Safety audits are an essential component of workplace safety, along with safety policies, safety procedures & execution, safety awareness and safety training. Workplace safety audits are the hub of these other four components, ensuring that policy, procedure, awareness and training are working in concert to form a superior workplace culture. In CDG, we’ll explore workplace safety audits and focus on four areas on which managers and supervisors can focus to ensure that workplace safety audits are conducted properly, regularly and thoroughly.
5 Important Steps to a Workplace Safety Audit – and 4 Areas to Focus On
Workplace Safety Audit Planning
Workplace Safety Audit Execution
Compiling the Workplace Safety Audit
Take Corrective Action as Informed from the Workplace Safety Audit
Communicate the Results of the Workplace Safety Audit
four distinct areas on which an effective workplace safety audit ought to focus:
Safety Policies
Safety Procedures
Safety Awareness
Safety Training
These four areas, when working in harmony, encompass both the big picture and the day-to-day of a worksite or organization that promotes, maintains and grows a superior workplace safety culture. Thus, the Workplace Safety Audit should focus on these four areas to ensure that each is up to snuff and that all four are working together.
Workplace Safety Audit: A Big Picture Look at Safety Policies
Safety policies are the big picture reflection of an organization’s workplace safety culture. A company or work site with effective, detailed, well-informed and well-thought-out safety policies is far more likely to be a safer workplace.
Safety policies stem from a number of areas:
Past experience in your organization & industry
Best practices of workplace safety in your industry
Federal, provincial and municipal workplace safety laws & regulations
Workplace safety audits that you have conducted
Yes, workplace safety audits you’ve conducted in the past have led to current safety policies; while your next workplace safety audit (and subsequent audits) will lead to better safety policies.
Workplace Safety Audit: The Day to Day of Safety Procedures & Execution
While workplace safety policies have a big picture scope, they also inform the safety procedures and processes that are to be followed in the day-to-day operations of your workplace. When safety policies are planned and put into place at the managerial level, it’s the supervisors and staff who are executing the safety procedures that stem from said policies. Specifically, supervisors are to ensure that safety procedures are being followed at all times; and their role is extended to include providing feedback to management as to how policy and procedure can be improved. Staff are to be aware of all safety procedures and processes for their given role(s), following these to the letter in the safe execution of their job. Workplace safety audits should ensure that the above are taking place, and should recommend areas in which safety procedures and processes can be improved.
Workplace Safety Audit: A Culture of Safety Awareness
A workplace safety audit will reveal the culture of safety awareness in your organization or work site. Specifically, it will uncover gaps and areas for improvement, showing where workplace safety needs to be bolstered. Workplace safety audits will also reveal an organization’s strengths in terms of safety awareness. A superior workplace safety culture includes attention to safety awareness. Workplace safety audits should ensure safety awareness is ingrained in the workplace safety culture, and should recommend areas in which safety awareness can be improved.
About CDG
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