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Custom Safety Programs
Investing in a safety program provides your business with a much needed security blanket and a competitive edge. Regardless of your industry or trade, whether you need to create a brand new safety program from scratch or just update your current safety manual to address new requirements, our experienced safety professionals will collaborate with you to develop the exact health and safety program you want. Our safety professionals constantly seek your input as they draft detailed standards, policies and procedures, as well as a plan for implementation.
Who is required to provide a Written Safety program?
OSHA requires that EVERY COMPANY provide a written safety program that outlines the acceptable procedures and cautions of their workplace. In addition to the general safety outlines, you must provide a program for any site-specific hazards.
Custom Safety Programs
Investing in a safety program provides your business with a much needed security blanket and a competitive edge. Regardless of your industry or trade, whether you need to create a brand new safety program from scratch or just update your current safety manual to address new requirements, our experienced safety professionals will collaborate with you to develop the exact health and safety program you want. Our safety professionals constantly seek your input as they draft detailed standards, policies and procedures, as well as a plan for implementation.
Industry Leading Expertise
Increased regulations and enforcement, EHSS offers much needed assurance that you are getting the very best and most knowledgeable safety professionals available. Each and every business is unique with different safety concerns and needs. This is why we are confident that you will be 100% satisfied with our customized approach to written safety programs.
Modifying Existing Programs
EHSS can evaluate and refine your company’s existing policies and procedures to ensure compliance. Allow one of our safety professionals, who formally wrote policies that passed the third-party auditors, tailor your company’s current information.
Should the immediate supervisor be on the team?
The advantage is that this person is likely to know most about the work and persons involved and the current conditions. Furthermore, the supervisor can usually take immediate remedial action. The counter argument is that there may be an attempt to gloss over the supervisors shortcomings in the accident. This situation should not arise if the accident is investigated by a team of people, and if the worker representative(s) and the members review all accident investigation reports thoroughly.
Why look for the root cause?
An investigator who believes that accidents are caused by unsafe conditions will likely try to uncover conditions as causes. On the other hand, one who believes they are caused by unsafe acts will attempt to find the human errors that are causes. Therefore, it is necessary to examine some underlying factors in a chain of events that ends in an accident.
The important point is that even in the most seemingly straightforward accidents,seldom, if ever, is there only a single cause. For example, an “investigation” which concludes that an accident was due to worker carelessness, and goes no further, fails to seek answers to several important questions such as:
Was the worker distracted? If yes, why was the worker distracted?
Was a safe work procedure being followed? If not, why not?
Were safety devices in order? If not, why not?
Was the worker trained? If not, why not?
What are the steps involved in investigating an accident?
The accident investigation process involves the following steps:
Report the accident occurrence to a designated person within the organization.
Provide first aid and medical care to injured person(s) and prevent further injuries or damage.
Investigate the accident.
Identify the causes.
Report the findings.
Implement the plan.
Evaluate the effectiveness of the corrective action.
Make changes for continuous improvement.
As little time as possible should be lost between the moment of an accident or near miss and the beginning of the investigation. In this way, one is most likely to be able to observe the conditions as they were at the time, prevent disturbance of evidence, and identify witnesses. The tools that members of the investigating team may need (pencil, paper, camera, film, camera flash, tape measure, etc.) should be immediately available so that no time is wasted.
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