Safety Audit & Site Inspection
Details :
“What you do not measure you cannot improve
on”; every system however good on paper needs to be checked if it actually
works in practice. How much more important is this need when what is at stake
is not only money but human lives?
This training course will cover the
essentials of Audits. Delegates will learn that an Audit is about examining the
systems within a company and verifying firstly that the systems actually do
exist and secondly that these systems are within the legislative requirements.
Within this training course, the focus will also be on methods of identifying
gaps that should be filled and or improved upon.
In this Safety Audit and Site Inspection
training course, participants will learn about document searches, interviews
and actual Site Inspections. Audit and Inspection findings are facts and
not opinions and this is emphasised throughout the course.
In this training course, participants will
learn to:
- Conduct effective Company and Contractors Safety
Audits
- Appreciate the importance of pre-audit
questionnaires
- Understand the legal aspects of audits
- Improve your knowledge on safety issues
- Improve your skills in undertaking Site
Inspections
By the end of this training course, participants
will:
- Understand the legal background
- Appreciate all Audit activities
- Gain knowledge about the elements of a Safety Management system
- Successfully undertake Site Inspections
- Assess the Safety Culture of the organization
- Evaluate the Emergency Plans of the Organisation
This training course is suitable to a wide range of
professionals but will greatly benefit:
- All Supervisors and Line Management who have assigned
responsibilities within the organisation’s Safety Management System (SMS)
- HSE personnel
- Operations personnel
- Maintenance personnel
- Staff involved in Contractor work
Day One: Introduction to Audits,
Legislation & Contractors
Competency Description: It is a necessary to understand legal and
best practice before undertaking Audits and Inspections
Key behaviours
- What is the latest best practice for On Shore
High Hazard Plants?
- What are the requirements mobile construction
sites?
- Do Risk Assessments need a new approach?
Topics to be covered
- Introduction to safety audits and inspections
- The Legal Aspects
- Good Practice for the Oil and Gas Industry
- The New Seveso III Directive,
- PSM 1910.119
- Directive 92/57/EEC - temporary or mobile
construction sites
- Contractor Selection & Induction
- Risk Management & Risk Assessments
- Evaluating Risk Assessments
Day Two: Elements of a Safety Management
System – Audits
Competency Description: The Auditor must be aware of the types of
Safety Management Systems
Key behaviours
- Appreciate the differences of SMS
- Which Elements of a Safety Management System
should be Audited
- Which KPIs are relevant
- The activities undertaken by the Auditor
Topics to be covered
- Types of Safety Management Systems
- Mechanical Model
- Socio Technical Model
- Elements of Safety – Management Systems
- SMS Policy – Elements of SMS policy statements
- Proactive and reactive monitoring of performance
- ANSI/API 754 Process Safety Indicators for the
Refining and Petrochemical Industries
- The Auditors’ qualifications
- Audits
- Pre Audit Activities
- On Site Activities
- Post Audit Activities
- Classification of Findings
Day Three: Inspections
Competency Description: The physical Inspection of the Plant is
part of the Audit.
Key behaviours
- Energetic, inquisitive and persistency in
inspections
- Knowledge of the legal aspects
- Communication skills
- Excellent record keeping
Topics to be covered
- Observation Techniques
- Specific audit / inspection systems - physical
inspection of the site
- Confined Space Entry
- Work at height
- Scaffolding
- Ladders
- PPE
- Fire Assessment
- Chemicals
- Work Permit Systems
Day Four: Safety Culture
Competency Description: This is the Soft area of Safety and is
strongly linked to Behavioural Safety. One cannot exist without the other.
Key behaviours
- Understanding motivation, attitudes and
perceptions
- What is the Id, Ego and Superego?
- The results of consequences
Topics to be covered
- Safety Culture and Behavioural Safety
- Motivation - Taylor, Herzberg, Vroom, Gueller,
Maslow
- ABC Analysis
- What drives behaviour
- Natural penalties and consequences
- Auditing the Safety Culture
- Improving the Culture
Day Five: Emergencies
Competency Description: However unlikely an emergency is always
possible. Every company must have in place a ready response for the most likely
emergencies that it may face.
Key behaviours
- Which Internal emergency Plans should be in
place?
- How are these plans put into effect?
- Is there a need for an External Emergency Plan?
- Completing the Audit
Topics to be covered
- Internal Emergency Plans
- External Emergency Plans
- Auditing emergency plans
- Audit Reports
- Course Review
- Evaluation
- All lectures are in colorful presentation
- All lectures are interspersed with interactive discussion
- All lectures include group discussion, case history and exercises
- Actual major incidents as well as industry experience are reviewed
- Participants receive a multicolor course manual
- Pictures of real incidents and case history are shown
- Videos on the subject are shown
daily 09:00 – 14:00