Proactive Monitoring of Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality (HSEQ)
Having invested in setting systems up to assist you in managing for Health, Safety, Environment and Quality you should consider how you can proactively monitor for continual improvement. This embraces the Plan – Do – Check -Act approach promoted by the Health and Safety Executive. At Crathie Consultants we are qualified to carry out inspections or audits of all or part of your HSEQ Management systems.
An audit program involves systematically going through the workplace to evaluate HSEQ programs and practices within an organization. An inspection likewise involves systematically going through the workplace, but in this case looking for safety hazards or lapses in HSEQ practices. Both are important components of a workplace management plan.
Safety Inspection
A safety inspection looks at the physical conditions and work practices in a workplace or work site(s). Equipment is examined to determine whether all safeguards are in place and whether its operation presents any hazards. Work practices are observed to identify unsafe actions. The overall goal of a safety inspection is to identify hazards so they can be eliminated, guarded, or protected against.
Safety Audit
A safety audit involves measuring and collecting information about the reliability and effectiveness of the safety inspections, programs, training, plans and systems within a workplace. The relationship between a safety inspection and a safety audit is that a safety audit is used to determine whether the safety inspection is returning accurate, reliable, and complete results. A safety audit is verification that the safety programs are working.
Whenever an audit or inspection is undertaken a report on the findings with recommendations will be provided to assist you to continually improve your HSEQ management standards.
Reactive Monitoring of HSEQ
At Crathie Consultants we can assist with any accident and incident investigations and report on the findings with recommendations to prevent any re-occurrence.