SITE VISITS

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SITE VISITS

• SOME ISSUES FOR
• OCCUPATIONAL PHYSICIANS
• INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE

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ANZSOM/AFOM SITE VISIT

• Principal justifications
• single issue following clinical event, injury
• invited to deal with medical issue dermatitis
• concern by safety officer following site
  exposure event, gas, spillage
• hazardous substance determination, WorkCover
  authorisation, lead biological monitoring
• concern by workforce specific issue, asthma
  requires permission
• company doctor and not seen as a threat

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AFOM/ANZSOM SITE VISITS

• Content
• Must have objective
• Foot in the door best reason, clinical case
• Enquire, question, suggest never dictate
• Opportunity to identify alternative jobs
• Identification of detail of tasks for each job
• Identification of physical, chemical, biological,
  design and psychosocial hazards
• May need to resolve OHS conflict
• Meetings, legislation interpretation

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AFOM/ANZSOM SITE VISITS

• Training Manual
• .will be able to undertake assessments of the
  work environment in order to recognise, evaluate
  and control physical, chemical, biological,
  design and psychosocial hazards in the
  workplace.
• The OP undertakes these to prevent disease and
  injury, resulting from, or being aggravated by,
  exposure to these hazards.

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AFOM/ANZSOM SITE VISITS

• The Process
• Pre-walk through meeting
• purpose of visit
• expected outcomes
• review companys activities number of sites
• review processes procedures
• review jobs
• identify current OHS programmes
• Walk though survey
• identify all potential hazards
• review shift rosters
• ergonomic assessment

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AFOM/ANZSOM SITE VISITS

• Cont
• Post-walk through
• summary talk to senior supervisor
• clarify any issues
• the value of your work is readily undermined by
  errors of fact. Get it checked thoroughly

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AFOM/ANZSOM SITE VISITS

• A Comprehensive process/audit
• OHS Policy
• OHS Administration programme
• Site Management, Supervisors and Employee
  responsibilities
• Joint employee-management HS Committees
• Training and Induction Programmes
• Incident and Accident management
• Allocation of HS person
• Facilities/Equipment/Hazardous materials/Fire
  Safety
• HS Programmes and Procedures IH activities
• Protocol for Risk Assessing
• Documentation Data Recording auditability

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AFOM/ANZSOM SITE VISITS

• Structure of Workplace Visit Report
• Introduction background reason for visit
• Executive summary
• Discussion/Methods/Findings
• Summary
• Conclusions
• References

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AFOM/ANZSOM SITE VISITS

• Review of
• Physical hazards
• Chemical hazards
• Biological hazards
• Design hazards
• Psychosocial hazards
• explosive/flammable
• machine guarding
• working from heights

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AFOM/ANZSOM SITE VISITS

• Risk Assessment
• Describe the Hazard
• Assess the Risk
• recognition
• evaluation/measure
• control

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AFOM/ANZSOM SITE VISITS

• Major benefit being that it provides a sound
  basis on which to make informed decisions about
  appropriate hazard control measures.
• identify all hazardous substances (and their
  byproducts) and establish an inventory.
• risk assessment is the process undertaken when
  reviewing the use and process involving any
  hazardous substance.

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AFOM/ANZSOM SITE VISITS

• Workplace controls
• Design
• Elimination
• Process changes
• Isolation
• Exhaust ventilation
• Labelling
• MSDS
• SWPs
• Training

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AFOM/ANZSOM SITE VISITS

• Having done the risk assessment -
• need for health surveillance
• medical examinations
• biological monitoring
• need for workplace hazard exposure
• physical, ergonomics aircon
• noise
• chemical, gas, dusts