Legal Safety Audit by TheSafetyMaster

One of the main reasons for Maintaining and Promoting good standards of health and safety is legal requirement. Most national legislations would require employers to make arrangements to take care of the health, safety and welfare of its employees. These legislations are made by local governments in consultation with the society.

The social expectations may increase as the living conditions, technology, and awareness increases, and the law also gets amended to take care of these enhanced expectations.

Importance and Need of Compliance to Legal Requirements

To ensure that the law is adhered to, the national governments also appoint the enforcement agencies, who are empowered to enter workplaces, conduct audits, interview people and verify records.

During such routine inspections, if the enforcement agencies find any violations with respect to the law then they may initiate proceedings which can range from a simple enforcement notice to prosecution in the criminal court, which can lead to either fines, imprisonment or both.

The following are the benefits of carrying out Legal/Statutory Safety Audit with TheSafetyMaster™ legal safety experts,

ü  Avoidance of Criminal Charges

ü  Building Positive Reputation

ü  Higher Productivity

 
Identification of Legal Requirements

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          Organization may need to prepare a procedure to identify the applicable legal requirements.

·      Conduct a search on all EHS legislation that applies to country and territory. The search

     should identify the legislations that specify the requirements that the company needs to comply with EHS.

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       Websites and other national/state database should be referred.

Workplace Legal safety Acts and Regulations

Here is some common workplace legal safety acts and regulations TheSafetyMaster™ legal safety experts would review during Legal Safety Audit,

1.    Constitution of India, 1949

2.    The Factories Act, 1948

3.    The Environment Protection Act, 1986

4.    The Water Act, 1974 and Rules, 1975

5.    The Air Act, 1981 and Rules, 1982

6.    The Petroleum Act, 1934 and Rules, 2002

7.    Indian Electricity Rules,1956, Electricity Act 2003, CEA Rules 2010

8.    The Gas Cylinder Rules, 2004

9.    Indian Boilers Act, 1923

10. Hazardous and Other Waste Rules, 2016

11. The Biomedical Waste Rules, 2016

12. E-Waste Management Rules, 2016

13. The Batteries Rules, 2010

14. MSIHC Rules, 1989

15. Static and Mobile Pressure Vessel Rules, 2016

16. Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991

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HIRA by TheSafetyMaster

HIRA – Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment by TheSafetyMaster™

Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA) is a systematic evaluation of the workplace and/or other activities which identifies the hazards present and gives an estimate of risks involved” in any activity.

Legally it is required that organizations conduct risk assessments and these risk assessments should not just be mere pieces of paper so as to achieve legal compliance but also serve the set objectives, hence it is required that the risk assessments should be “suitable and sufficient”.

Factors of HIRA – Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment

We in TheSafetyMaster™, consider the following as the factors of HIRA during our HIRA certificate training,

1.    Human Behavior

2.    Hazard Origination

3.    Change in Management

4.    Hazard Created

5.    Training

6.    Applicable Legal Obligation

7.    Workplace

8.    Infrastructure

9.    Design of workplace

Steps of HIRA – Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment

Basically there are three steps involved in HIRA and it helps majorly in keeping the workplace safe.

Risk Assessment in HIRA

Risk Assessment is a formalized process of identifying preventive and protective measures by evaluating the risk(s) arising from a Hazard(s), taking by evaluating the risk(s) arising from hazard(s), taking into accounts the adequacy of any existing controls, and deciding whether or not the risk(s) is acceptable.

Objectives of a Risk Assessment

·         To determine the measure required by the organization to comply with relevant health and safety legislation

·         To ensure that risks are minimized by the correct application of risk control measures

·         To ensure legal compliance

·         To prevent incidents from happening and the consequent injury and ill health

·         To prevent legal enforcement action against the company and its managers.

·         To prevent the direct and indirect costs arising from an accident.

Risk Assessment Process: Five Step Method

Expert help is often required within industrial workplace activity for Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA Studies) and at TheSafetyMaster™, we excel at this integral ‘Safety First’ service.

The objective of HIRA training is to train staff to identify and contain various activity based workplace hazards and risks within an industrial setting that may have low injury but high frequency and it’s not conducted on non-chemical process/activity that involve work at height, material handling, confined space, permit to work etc. Such an assessment is followed up with extensive documentation of risks and hazards present within an industrial environment, their causes, associated consequencand risk and hazards containment recommendations.

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