Workplace Inspection Services

What does workplace inspection mean?

A workplace inspection is a process of critically examining the workplace for the identification and mitigation of workplace hazards and to ensure that all standards and procedures are met and the workplace is safe and free from any risks

Workplace inspections are an ongoing process that plays an important role in actively monitoring an organization's safety adherence and compliance to safe work practices

why workplace inspections are important

Workplace inspections help prevent incidents, injuries, and illnesses through a critical examination of the workplace. Inspections help to identify and record hazards for corrective action. 

Health and safety management and safety committees can help plan, conduct, report, and monitor site safety inspections

Regular workplace inspections are an important part of the overall occupational health and safety program and management system if it is present

Let us discuss in detail what involves and includes in a workplace safety inspection

The inspection process involves various people such as health and safety specialists, safety practitioners, managers, supervisors, and members of the health and safety management committees

Depending upon the type and frequency of inspection, the inspection process mainly focuses on four key areas:

Number one: people, workers, their behavior, and matters

Number two: plants, machinery equipment, and vehicles

Number three: premises, the workplace itself, and the working environment

And number four: procedures, the methodologies, safe systems of work and permit to work system, etc.

These are the four key elements that the safety inspectors will mainly focus on here. The most important question is what will be the frequency of site safety inspections?

The frequency of inspections depends upon the nature of work being done, the materials, substances, and equipment involved in the work process, and the procedures being followed

Depending on these factors, inspections may be carried out daily, weekly, monthly, by annually

What is the purpose of a site safety inspection?

Safety inspections are a very important element of the health and safety management system

Number one: listen to the concerns of workers and their supervisors 

Number two: gain further understanding of jobs and tasks at the site

Number three: identify existing and potential hazards

Number four: determine underlying causes of hazards

Number five: recommend corrective action

And number six: monitor steps are taken to eliminate hazards, and control the risk for example engineering controls administrative controls, policies procedures, personal protective equipment, etc.

Without frequent site safety inspections, you will not be able to gain access to such vital points which are directly linked with the progress of the organization

Another important question, how do you plan for site safety inspections?

Planning is essential for any task, for any activity if you like to make it effective and successful

What to examine?

Once you are at the site and you are conducting a site safety inspection, every safety inspection must examine who, what, where, when, and how. Pay particular attention to items that are most likely to develop into unsafe or unhealthy conditions because of stress, fear impact vibration, heat, chemical reaction

Other issues include areas where no work is done, regularly such as parking lots, rest areas of storage areas, and locker rooms

All these areas, all these activities, you must examine once you are in the process of site safety inspection. Furthermore, you will look at all workplace elements, the people, the environment, the equipment, and the process

The environment includes such hazards as noise, vibration, lighting, temperature, and ventilation

Equipment includes materials, tools, and operators for producing a product or a service

The process involves how the worker interacts with other elements in a series of tasks of operations.