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WORKPLACE INSPECTION TRAINING
By OSH Department, MAHB
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Workplace Inspection

• What to inspect ?
• When, How and Where
• Physical Hazards looks only at things.
• Unsafe Acts includes looking at people.
• Physical Hazards and Unsafe Acts a combination
  to ensure effective Inspection.

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Workplace Inspection

• Why inspect ?
• To check results against plan
• To reawaken interest in safety
• To reevaluate safety standards.
• To teach safety by example.
• To detect and reactivate unfinished business

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Workplace Inspection

• To collect data
• To note and act upon unsafe behavior trends.
• To improve safety standards.
• To check new facilities.
• To detect unsafe conditions.
• To measure performance in safety.
• To comply with legal requirements.

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Workplace Inspection

• Responsibility of area to be inspected
• Rest upon the owner, supervisor etc.
• Results of inspections is direct measurement of
  safety performance effectiveness.

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Workplace Inspection

• Important to look behind the acts and behind the
  conditions when inspecting.
• Ask, Why is this ?
• The answer may lead to some other system
  weakness within the area.
• Question should be explored fully and answered.

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Workplace Inspection

• Example If a defective ladder is found during
  inspection.
• Why is this ladder here ?
• Why was it not uncovered during the owners
  inspection ?
• Why did the supervisor leave it here ?
• Why is it not replaced ?
• Answers to question such as this begin to get at
  the true causes of accidents.

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Workplace Inspection

• A Safety Inspection Inventory.
• Planned Inspection means knowing two things
• Inspectors need to know what to look at.
• They have to know what to look for.
• Things that must be looked at fall into 24
  broad categories.
• For any given area , not all categories
  necessarily apply, nor are all of equal
  importance.

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Workplace Inspection

• A Safety Inspection Inventory.
• Looked At Guide.

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Workplace Inspection

• A Safety Inspection Inventory.
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Workplace Inspection

• A Safety Inspection Inventory.
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Workplace Inspection

• A Safety Inspection Inventory.
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Workplace Inspection

• A Safety Inspection Inventory.
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A Safety Inspection Inventory. Looked At
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Workplace Inspection

• A Safety Inspection Inventory.
• Looked For Guide.
• Separated by Five major categories.
• These categories will not cover all of the
  possibilities but they are a guide to what to
  look for..

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Workplace Inspection

• A Safety Inspection Inventory.
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Workplace Inspection

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Workplace Inspection

• Inspectors are often provided with a checklist to
  use for primary inspection.
• Approach such as this does not encourage an
  effort to trace back the symptoms to their true
  cause.
• Checklist should be reworked into a form that
  requires determination of some of the causes of
  the symptoms that have been unearthed.
• Checklist ranges from simple to more complex
  forms to record results of the inspection.
• Example of checklist

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Go forth work safely successfully!