Safety Audit Checklist | Safety Audit Types | Safety Audit Sheet

What is Safety?

Safety is prevention of accidents which results personal  injury and property damage.

Safety in a industrial establishment is required to avoid any interruptions into all the below factors:

Man, Machine, Material and Environment.

Safety Management Principle

• Safety is everyone’s responsibility
  • Good result can not be obtained without unified safety consciousness.
• Safety takes priority over everything else i.e. Safety First
  • First priority must always be given to safety to protect “Employees”.
• All industrial accidents are preventable
  • Dangerous environment is the factor of the industrial accidents.
  • Industrial accidents are preventable if we eliminate the danger.

Safety Audit Purpose

• To identify unsafe conditions/unsafe acts
• To find out ways and means to implement preventive actions
• To ensure employee participation in accident prevention
• To evaluate & compare the safety performance level  within departments
• To register the upward communication on safety issues
• To create a safe work place
• To fulfill legal compliance

Who Secure Safety ?

Safety should be secured by all the members.

Safety Audit Methodology

• Prepare Safety Audit Checklist for conducting audit
• Identify key persons to conduct the conduct the audit
• Adequately train the identified key persons
• Select a department /Area /Section
• Conduct the audit once in month comprehensively
• Record the findings in the defined format
• If possible, take a photograph of the non-conformity as evidence
• Put a tag explaining the non-conformity
• Number the tag and category or criteria
• Present them in the Safety committee meeting
• Suggest countermeasure and preventive measure
• Send minutes of meeting to the concerned process owners (HODs)
• Follow the progress of action
• Re-audit the same if the non-conformities existing

Types of Safety Audit

The Safety Audit types in manufacturing industries are:

• Material Handling Equipments
• Machine Guarding
• Electrical Safety
• Fire Fighting Equipments
• Safety Switches
• Layout of Machines
• Training and knowledge of operators
• Chemical Handling
• Safety Communication
• Contractors  Regulation
• Storage of Materials
• Work Environment Hazards
• ISO 14001 Environmental Management Standard
• OHSAS 18001/ISO 45001 Occupational Health & Safety Management Standard

Prepare Safety Audit checklist by addressing all above safety points.

Marks Criteria:
For 100% Compliance :- 2 Marks
50% Compliance :- 1 Mark
Poor condition/Not follow :- 0 Mark
Not Applicable :- NA

-> No good work without safe working environment

-> No good quality without good work

-> No productivity improvement without good quality