DSG Safety Audit Modules

Has your local leadership developed their own written Health and Safety policy and is actively involved, and has effectively communicated management's expectations to all levels of the organization?

Direction and Promise
This set of questions are comprised of statements that will evaluate the overall direction setting of the local leadership that includes involvement, commitment, fiduciary responsibilities and ownership at all levels of the organization.

Does your location have a Change Management plan that has been implemented and the site verifies that design requirements are met? Are formal Project Safety and Health Reviews completed by a project coordinator using proven methodologies on new or re-designed processes or equipment to ensure elimination of potential hazards? Is Health and Safety input from production, maintenance, and the Health and Safety resources utilized?

Change Management
Questions under this module include the identification and management of all changes that occur within the local site. The identification involves formal project safe methodologies that categorize the potential hazards recognizing management and ownership of project changes.

Does your location have policies and procedures in place to manage core worker safety risk within the workplace? Are personnel trained to recognize, evaluate and control current risk factors that impact workers safety and the safety of others within the boundaries of the employee scope of activities? Are mechanisms in place to maintain the compliance of employees’ chemical knowledge, handling, and exposures?

Workers Safety
This module consist of the management of signs and tags, the management of onsite contractors and the core safety programs including lock out tag out, confined space, hazardous communication, fall prevention and a host of other programs that pertain to worker safety, worker compliance and proper risk assessment that accurately identify corrective actions to be carried out.

The location has aligned trained technical resources to address the control of systematic and/or problematic events that may occur. Appropriate skill levels and resources are obtained to properly identified and maintain ownership and control of combustion, fire and not limited to location security

Mechanical Safety
This module includes confirmation of certain technical systems that require appropriate skill leveled personnel to address systems such as combustion, fire, security, hazardous processes and other areas that address management and risk evaluation of critical location components and systems.

Does your location have a well-organized system for providing professional and high quality occupational medical services? Are proper implementation of Policies, Procedures, Practices and Government Regulations maintained? Is the occupational medical service system well integrated into all phases of medical emergencies?

Health Practices
Questions within this module include provisions for potential medical surveillances, first aid and proper medical response. The accident investigation, recordkeeping and reporting processes, general workplace requirements as well as exposure control provisions and monitoring are also explored

Does there exist a local environmental policy that addresses the location’s behavior as it relates to air emissions, water discharges, treatments and proper waste characterization, handling and disposal? Does your location have trained champions responsible for the management of environmental practices and performances?

Environmental Performance
This module includes the management, use and disposal of air, water and waste. This also includes questions pertaining to the release and reporting of emission, releases and contaminations of soil or water.

Does your site have a local plan for the investigation, analysis and corrective action of adverse events or incidents that may occur? Does your management structure and commitment support the follow-up including completion of appropriate corrective actions regardless of its severity?

Event Analysis
This module has questions that pertain to the overall management, analysis and corrective action of all incidents and gaps within the local site regardless of their severity.

Has your site identified an application with proven fundamental case management skills that establish a positive claim partnership, proactive approach, openness to modified work opportunities, realistic approach to vocational rehabilitation and the recognizing of factors that lead to stress?

Claims Management
The questions in this module comprise case management tactics and fiduciary responsibility for the closure of all claims, transitional work opportunities and strategies for maximizing people resources and minimizing overall indirect cost.

Has your site developed a training strategy which addresses all levels of the organizational safety responsibilities? Does your location also have provisions in place to evaluate the core competencies required for the job? Are 100% compliance goals tracked and addressed in situations of new team members, departmental transfers and opportunities where retraining is required?

Training and Techniques
This module questions contain information that pertain to the training, retraining and orientations of all employees, this includes contingent workers and contractors working at the local site. The quality of training received as well as the retention of owners are evaluated based upon the local training strategy and opportunities for 100% compliance goals.

Does your site own and maintain a well-integrated and measurable system that manages the observations of employee behaviors to set levels of compliance? Are there control tools in place to quickly rectify unwanted behavioral observations at all levels of the organization?

Behavior Observations and Response
The module includes questions that represent the integration of employee behavior versus their observations from a positive and non-conformance perspective. The module also includes avenues to ascertain goals and tools to gain compliance to local rules, policies and standards established.

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