FUNDAMENTAL 55: Safety Audits
Key Takeaways: Learning about the safety audit and its purpose. [...]

Key Takeaways: Learning about the safety audit and its purpose. [...]

You must annually review your lockout/tagout program and make updates and changes as needed. Copy or customize this checklist from the University of Washington to meet the needs of your LOTO program Annual Inspection and Training Assessment.

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.

Use and modify this checklist to assist you and your teams during workplace safety inspections.

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.

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.

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.


The trucks and equipment your company operates are great pieces of equipment. They're versatile. They're powerful. And, they have to be inspected. A proper inspection protects workers and those working around them by ensuring that the equipment they are using is mechanically safe. And that's what this video is all about how???to perform a thorough, consistent and accurate pre-shift inspection.
The trucks and equipment your company operates are great pieces of equipment. They're versatile. They're powerful. And, they have to be inspected. A proper inspection protects workers and those working around them by ensuring that the equipment they are using is mechanically safe. And that's what this video is all about how???to perform a thorough, consistent and accurate pre-shift inspection.

Investigating an incident allows you to look beyond what happened and discover why it happened. It also allows you to identify and correct deficiencies in your safety and health programs, management shortcomings, and unsafe processes, conditions, and actions.
Looking deeper to uncover the causes for a tragic and deadly train derailment.

Unless you go looking for safety hazards, they can lurk out of sight and out of mind until something serious happens.

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