Workplace Health And Safety Victoria

1. Occupational Health and Safety OHS Auditing The Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) is a standardized approach to inspecting health and safety risks. It helps the organizations to improve their safety performance and compliance with health and safety standards. They can create safer working environments that protect people at work by ignoring the health and safety hazards. There are several steps employers can take to reduce the chances of workplace accidents, but the first task is to perform a risk management analysis. Once the problem is identified the owner can then allocate someone to find the solution. OHS auditing is an effective method for ensuring compliance and enhancing the performance of prevention systems. The structure and distribution of occupational health and safety (OHS) audits vary greatly. So the employers should choose an audit that best suits their needs. Some audits aim organizations that initiate to advance their OHS management system and others target organizations that are much forward. OHS management audits label strengths and weaknesses of the workplace by assessing the features such as accountability, policy, hazard verification, hazard control, training, and communication. They ensure that every OHS program meets the legislation and regulation. The legislative compliance audit includes an audit plan, an opening meeting, verification of existing policies and procedures, consultation of work practices in business, a general visit to work location and verification of equipment, an exit meeting, assembling an audit report, recommendations for health and safety management, and presentation of the report.

2. Types Of OHS Audits There are six types of OHS audits, • OHS audits on human factors or hazardous substances • Auditing in machinery • Auditing in the site of work • Compliance with legal or internal standards • Validation the design of OHS management systems • Auditing in safety management Role Of Audits Audits plays important role in, • Reporting the identified risks and provide appropriate solutions • Analyzing the workplace by qualified professionals • Documenting the insurance compliance • Identifying the needs to improve safety management procedures • Identifying the areas that need improvements to protect workers from injury and illness • Ensuring the legislative compliance • Making benchmark in OHS practices • Determining the organizational rewards • Determining the penalties Health, Safety, and Business risk can be handled effectively by recognizing the gaps in the existing systems and implementing the effective management strategies and controls. The proactive and a systematic approach that involve us assessing the health and safety risk to your organization and then helping you to eliminate them. This structured approach to risk management provides clear checkpoints along the routes to compliance and allows for forwarding budgeting and continuous performance monitoring. For further details and queries please contact us at OHS Australia or visit our website here: http://safesystem.com.au.