Use and modify this checklist to assist you and your teams during workplace safety inspections.
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Are you regularly doing scheduled workplace inspections? If you’re not, you should be and now is a great time to start. Workplace inspections give you a chance to thoroughly evaluate equipment, processes, tasks, tools, and other factors. Regular inspections help you find new hazards, see how existing hazard controls are working, correct or fix issues, and implement new controls (engineering, administrative, PPE) where needed.
This sample checklist, from the North Carolina Department of Labor, is designed to help you in developing programs tailored to your own operation. Please copy, expand, modify and customize this sample as needed.
This sample checklist, from the North Carolina Department of Labor, is designed to help you in developing programs tailored to your own operation. Please copy, expand, modify and customize this sample as needed.
Your safety depends on workplace inspections and the corrective actions that should be taking place. Workplace inspections are designed to uncover hazards, the obvious and not so obvious kind.
Conducting regular safety inspections is a key component of any workplace safety program. Unfortunately, safety inspection methods leave a lot to be desired at many workplaces. Although the specific details of the inspection process will vary from operation to operation, here are five strategies just about any employer can use to improve inspections.
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Need a reason to be regularly conducting workplace inspections? Here are 6,098 reasons why workplace inspections are important – that’s how many Canadian and U.S. workers died in 2017 from work-related injuries or illnesses.
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Confined spaces are notorious for hazards, often hidden that you can’t see or smell. Too many times when a hazard in a confined space is recognized it is too late for the entrants in the space to save themselves. Here are six hazardous and deadly confined space situations.
Use/modify this form to identify hazards associated with a confined space and to determine procedures and safety precautions required for entry into the space. This form is to be completed by a trained and competent Confined Space Entry Supervisor.
Permit required confined spaces have long been – and still are - the leading cause of multiple fatalities in the workplace.
Use this Decision Tree to help you determine if a confined space is a permit-required confined space or a non-permit confined space.
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