Health and Safety Audit In Workplace

CIL provides workplace safety audit services in Hyderabad, Telangana,  India. CIL is an ISO 17020 accredited inspection agency.

Workplace Safety 

Every organization strives for creating safe environment at workplace involving all areas of activities related to productivity and services. However, there are incidences of workplace hazards and injuries like the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984, was perhaps the major industrial catastrophe as far as the occupational health and safety is concerned. Therefore, emphasis is on workplace safety considering the hazardous nature of tasks and risk prone conditions in the working environment.  

Why is a Health and Safety Audit Important? 

As well as identifying gaps, health and safety audits are important for challenging the benchmarks you’ve set out in your safety management system. 

They’re really helpful for coming up with actionable steps you can take to improve your business’ safety, and can be used to: 

Document that your safety management system complies with legislation 

Test if your safety management system is achieving its objectives 

See if your safety management system is maintaining the performance criteria and the auditing system is effective 

Assess whether your organization has completed any previous modification compliance audits, when necessary 

Constantly improve your organization 

Depending on the requirements of the organizations, the audit can focus attention on the following aspects of a safety system – 

• Safety Management systems. 

• Fire and Explosion prevention, protection and emergency management. 

• Work injury prevention. 

• Health hazards control. 

• Evaluating emergency plan if already available. 

• First aid practices 

• Management of health and safety 

• Accidents and accident reporting 

• Asbestos 

• Contractors 

• Display screen equipment 

• Electrical safety 

• Emergency lighting 

• Environmental protection 

• Fire prevention and emergencies 

• First-aid 

• Hazardous substances 

• Housekeeping and cleanliness 

• Information and communication 

• Kitchens, catering and food safety 

• Lifts and lifting equipment 

• Manual handling operations 

• Noise 

• Occupational health 

• Personal protective equipment 

• Plant rooms, machinery and equipment 

• Risk assessment requirements 

• Safety Policy 

• Safety signs and notices 

• Training 

• Use of vehicles / vehicle safety 

• Water services 

• Welfare provision 

• Working time 

• Work at heights 

• Workplace environment 

• Accident prevention 

• Identifying and correcting Regulatory Deficiencies 

• Improvement of Employee Morale 

• Identification and Elimination of Safety Hazards 

 CDG- we have made delivering comprehensive and detailed workplace safety audits our business. Our skilled and dedicated team of assessors and inspectors can come to your site and identify any issues or problems before they cause untold damage to property or personnel. To ensure that your working environment is kept in the best condition possible regular safety audits should be conducted. Safety audits are also necessary in the following situations: 

An accident or incident involving employees, equipment, or property 

Injury occurring on site 

Faults or damage being made apparent through use or inspection 

Planning to install new equipment or machinery 

After the installation of new equipment or machinery 

Site Inspections 

CDG ensure that all areas are inspected on a regular basis so that hazards can be identified and actions to rectify them taken. 

Inspections are a physical review of workplace equipment, working environment and practices, to identify hazards and deficiencies.