How do you guys manage routine safety inspections?
When it comes to safety inspections there’s certainly no shortage of them. Between fire extinguishers, first aid cabinets, AEDs, eyewash stations and showers (among many, many more) managing all these inspections and making they’re getting done is an incredibly challenging task.
I’m curious how you guys delegate these inspections and verify they’re all getting done. For us, we outsource our AED inspections, fire extinguishers and first aid cabinets - then the rest are done in house. Even still it’s tough to verify every single one is getting done at the correct frequency. Does anyone have an effective system to managing these?
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So I don't have a great way of doing this at my current organization due to cost, but some programs which have worked well in the past:
Inspect N Trak worked well for me for internal inspection of extinguisher and first aid cabinets. It makes sure that the employee is physically going to each location
Using CINTAS or some other vendor managed inventory to inspect/clean/sanitize/fill the first aid cabinets
I know some EHS Management softwares have good auditing/inspection modules - I would love feedback on others who are utilizing them.
David,
As far as reoccurring inspections, I normally set my locations up with a calendar. You could break this out for equipment inspections (fire extinguishers, first aid kit, AED, rescue equipment, rigging, fall protection) where you identify the inspections needed and a date that it needs to be completed by.
We also have mandatory numbers to meet for safety conversations and management inspections on active projects, so we use a monthly calendar and post it for all supervision to see. The supervisor's name is added for the day(s) they are required to do a job site audit and typically our safety professional will get with them in the morning to do a joint walk down.
We created a citywide (organization-wide) safety team comprised of volunteers in various departments. They are supported by me and a few others in the Mayor's Office. But it creates ownership and buy-in while giving an opportunity to teach safety policies and procedures to those not typically exposed to them. It sets up a "scaffold method" of teaching where peers create a feed back based relationship. This improves trust, belongingness and ownership amongst employees.
While I realize that I am late in posting this (I just joined S.K.'s today), I can echo the efforts from outside vendors, such as CINTAS. In my previous company, we used a compliance/EHS Activities calendar via an excel spreadsheet. It was an annual calendar with the "Sub-tabs" utilized for each month. It especially works well in meetings because it spells out every EHS topic & task and shows completion of each task in real time while checking the box for who carried out and who is responsible for each task as well.