Effective Work Health and Safety Auditing and Management
Contents
Performing an Accurate Health and Safety Audit 3
Evaluation and understanding of health and safety hazards. 4
Provide Clear TimeLine related to Health And Safety Auditing. 4
Create And Health And Safety Checklist 5
Logbooks Documenting Checklist And Meeting Actions. 6
Reporting of Actions Taken with Regard to Identified Hazards. 6
Other Factors Linked To Effectively Managing Health And Safety Risks. 6
Educate Staff on How to Minimize or Avoid Health and Safety Hazards. 6
Provide Guidance on How to Deal and Handle Occupational Health Problems. 7
The Supervisor’s Role towards Safety. 8
Introduction
Business, workplace, and staff management is often presumed to be the management of business operations and performance but the delivery of the best health and safety facilities to the workforce is also critical towards smooth operations. With human resource classified as the most important asset to every business, addressing health and safety concerns at the office play a huge role towards any organization’s development and growth (Stranks, 2010). But simply knowing the occupational hazards is not enough to manage the situation. It is important for the organization heads, HR department and all stakeholders to evaluate the situation and prepare the required reports that address the concern. Health and safety audits at the workplace will help the business work around occupational hazards which will allow them to reduce the risks and hazards the staff may encounter while at the workplace. Similar to other departments of a business, the work health and safety management department or officer is responsible for auditing a business’s current health and safety status. The official is also responsible for providing clear findings related to the health and safety hazards and how the staff, as well as organization, can work around those complications.
Performing an Accurate Health and Safety Audit
To perform an accurate audit linked to staff health and safety, the concerned officer must be able to first understand the health hazards experienced at a working environment (Asbury, 2013). Only after the hazards and risks have been understood and identified can appropriate counters be put in place to reduce or avert the risk or hazard.
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