Workplace Health and Safety Audit in India

CIL provides workplace safety audit services in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. CIL is an ISO 17020 accredited inspection agency.

 Safety audit begins with self-appraisal by an individual employee. He is encouraged to check his credentials against unsafe act committed knowingly or unknowingly. The factory carries out its internal safety audit since they are well aware that an accident or dangerous occurrence retard productivity adding to the loss whereas an accident-free period has become a marked value-addition. They adhere to the golden principle of “A Penny Saved is A Penny Earned”. The society, too, has risen to an accident-free environment. They have whistle blowers and non-Government organizations armored with the latest “Right to Information (RTI) Rules. Various statutory authorities in India are also equipped with state-of-the-art hardware and software to monitor and identify any malpractices leading to accidents and dangerous occurrences. For instance, satellite imagery, at once, reveal where there is smoke in the sky and brown water gushing into streams and rivers. 

External safety audits and internal safety audits have their own intrinsic qualities. An internal safety audit, carried out by a committee constituted from experienced experts of a factory, reveals most unhidden unsafe acts and unsafe conditions. After-all, the occupier and its employees know better than others about conditions in their factory. An external safety audit, carried out by experts constituted from other factories, academic professionals or those registered with the DGFASLI brings out a non-complacent, un-corrupted, perspective report coupled with benchmarked solutions and advice. 

The objective is to carry our systematic critical appraisal of all the potential hazards involving man, machine and material which also embodies in itself plant services and method of operation. In general, the objective is to cover the examination and qualitative assessment of all facets of safety in every activity which includes research and development, design ad layout, occupational health and hygiene, environmental feature ad control, plant, product and process safety, employee and public safety. It involves a review of safety and health aspect in the production, technical operation, maintenance, clearance certificates, emergency procedures, job description, operating instructions, training, housekeeping, personal attitude, management-worker relationship, workers’ participation in health and safety matters etc. 

FACILITY SAFETY AUDIT 

Visit site to assess physically the safety status including housekeeping. 

A safety audit well executed, and follow-up safety measures religiously adopted would spontaneously result in achieving a healthy index of the factory. A safety index is the ratio of the safety status of the previous year and the current year. This index would be less than 1. The more a factory is concerned about the safety, occupational health of its employees and the environment upkeep, the lesser and healthier would be the safety index. 

SAFETY SYSTEMS 

a) SAFETY FUNCTION 

· Role of safety vis-à-vis other functions 

· Procedure governing safety at works 

· Training given to safety personnel/other employees 

b) SAFETY INSTRUCTION 

· Works Standing Instructions 

· Area Instructions 

· Statutory Warnings/Instruction 

c) DOCUMENTATION 

· Manuals (Safety/Fire/Others) 

· MSDS 

· Audit 

· Statutory Compliance 

d) AUDITING/INSPECTION 

· Safety auditing 

· Inspection of safety features 

· Frequency 

· Agencies utilized (in-house/external) 

· Action arising from audits 

e) COMPLIANCE 

· Status of compliance with regulation 

· Register of compliance 

· Monitoring  

Contact CDG for Audit and Inspection.