Procedure Updates
What are some ways you check your procedures for compliance? How do you find out what updates have been made in the regs. in order to stay compliant?
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Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone. I’ve got a list going for each procedure and when it was revised last (thanks, Eric great idea!). I recently started a new role, so this will be a good way for me to review each and make notes for corrections needed.
Again, thanks for the input!
I review all procedures once a year and attend safety conferences to be sure I am up to date on current events.
I don’t have a suggestion on fully automating the search for updates, however you could create a table with your procedures, dates of creation and last update, and the regulations that are the basis for each procedure. Then two options for the update step. You could subscribe to receive federal register updates and scan this to identify rule changes, or periodically look at the dates when each regulation was last updated. The first allows proactive updates and is a good practice in the base case to stay up to date with specific rules that affect your industry.
Here’s a link to where you get started on notifications:
https://www.federalregister.gov/reader-aids/using-federalregister-gov/subscription-options-and-managing-your-subscriptions
One can sign up on the OSHA webpage, and they send out a newsletter and, at times, have alerts to changes to regulations.
This is a great question. I think it just comes down to being diligent about reviewing them every year/couple years. Might even be worth taking a look with a consultant to get another pair of eyes on it, and even go check the regs to see their revision date.
Would be nice if there were a system that helped automate this - identifying changes to regulations referenced in each procedure.