To measure the level of safety that your organisation observes, various occupational health and safety officers conduct regular inspections around your facility. They assess the existing working conditions around and they look into the procedures that you have adopted in order to combat dangerous situations. As part of their job, they examine every corner of every room in your building or site and they make that you are not going against the legal requirement of the Australian government when it comes to OHS.
Because the OHS officers can immediately question your firm if you are not complying with the regulations, it is better for you to perform your own site assessment before any formal visits to your organisation. You can get hold of a safety inspections checklist and use it to find all hazards and threats in your premises. If you do not have that document yet, draft one now and use the following as guide.
• With the industry that you are in and the kind of work that your workers carry out, identify your health and safety needs. Do you need a lot of personal protective equipment since the employees will be dealing a lot with harmful substances and objects? Or do you need a lot of safety signs to indicate high-risk areas in your site?
• Once you have identified your OHS requirements, make a tour around your premises to determine the areas that are considered safe, risky, and critical. That way, you will be able to know what safety protocols to apply in each of the zone.
• After going around your firm, prepare a list of to-dos and items to check which will then comprise your very own safety inspections checklist.
So there you have it, a personal safety inspections checklist that you can use to scrutinize your facility before opening up your premises for the intensive inspection of the OHS officers.
