The best health and safety audit systems are capable of identifying deviations from agreed standards, analyzing events leading to these deviations and highlighting good practice. They look especially at the ‘software elements of health and safety, such as systems of work, management practices, instruction, training and supervision.
The health and safety culture of an organization is the system of shared values and beliefs about the importance of health and safety in that workplace. The culture is how workers at all levels within the organization think and feel about health and safety, and about how this translates into their behaviors.
However, we have to realise that each country or region may define their ambient air parameters differently. Same is the case with measurement intervals which help in generating the coloured scale range shown. Therefore, the scale values and range may correspond to different levels of common pollutants in other countries.
The immediate action on occurrence of any accident is to save the affected persons and arrange for their rescue, first-aid and requisite medical care. Simultaneously or with no delay, the abnormal situations are to be normalized and made safe, with least or no change in the scene of the occurrence which shall facilitate incident investigation.
Process safety starts with design-friendly plants which can withstand human error and equipment failure without serious effects on safety, environment and efficiency. Process design analysis is very much helpful to assess the risks in the project. Process safety identifies risk and control measures to reduce or eliminate the risks to avoid the unwanted events.
Traditionally, at most of the places where behavior based safety(BBS) has been applied, it has focused on employees engaged in, and close to the operation environment. At several companies, worker’s union have strongly opposed BBS on ground that it wrongly identifies only worker’s behavior responsible for accidents and ill-health.