Safety Compliance and Site Inspection

INTRODUCTION

Organizations, as a minimum requirement, must demonstrate compliance with health, safety and environmental ‘HSE’ legal requirements. They should also demonstrate compliance with the HSE Management System. An essential part of any HSE-MS is to provide some means of measuring performance against these requirements and to provide feedback for management review. The HSE Audit and site inspections are essential elements in providing this function. Auditors, whether experiences or new need to have the necessary experience in HSE to conduct an effective audit. In this programme you will learn to:

• Prepare and conduct effective Company and contractors HSE Audits
• Enhance your background for relevant HSE issues
• Gain necessary skills in carrying out physical site inspections
• Prepare HSE audit reports

OBJECTIVES

• Describe the Company’s HSE Management System Elements
• Understand the role of risk assessment and risk management
• Develop a plan and implement vertical and horizontal audit systems
• Be familiar with the requirements of HS(G)65, BS 8800, OHSAS 18000 and ISO 14000
• Carry out effective site inspections to sample behavioral and physical aspects of the site and its workers
• Measure improvements in safety culture
• Describe the role of projects HSE reviews
• Be able to prepare audit reports

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Experienced and new auditors linked to the organization’s HSE MS
• All HSE personnel
• Managers and supervisors responsible for HSE functions
• Individuals responsible for controlling contractors

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COURSE OUTLINE

Introduction to safety audits and inspections

• Introduction to risk assessment and risk management
• Working with contractors and other organizations
• Permit-to-work Systems
• What should HSE Management System cover
• Standards for HSE Management Systems
• Projects Health, Safety & Environmental Plans – Mechanism for audit and    review for each stage of the project

Elements of HSE Management Systems

• Types of HSE Management Systems
• Elements of HSE – Management Systems
• HSE Policy – Elements of HSE policy statements
• Types of self-audit systems
• Proprietary HSE audit software systems
• Quantitative audit systems
  • Proactive and reactive monitoring of performance
• Measurement techniques
• Advanced Audit techniques

Behavioral Safety

• Motivation and employee involvement
• Development of positive safety culture
• What is safety culture
• How to promote safety culture
• How to measure safety culture
• Behavioural Safety and employee’s involvement
• Selection of outcome indicators

Inspection and observation procedures

• Engineering integrity
• Site inspections and observation techniques
• The Safety Case Concept
• Specific audit/inspection systems: fire protection and site activities
• Permit-to-work systems
• Preparation of audit reports and action plans

Emergency preparedness

• Elements of an emergency plan
• Auditing emergency plans
• Procedures for preparing action plans
• Auditing contractors
• Procedures for preparing action plans