Improving the procedure of behavioural occupational safety audit
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32782/2225-6733.43.2021.22Keywords:
risk, hazard, behaviour based safety audits, auditor, expert, checklistsAbstract
Introduction of risk-oriented approaches to occupational hazard (OH) identification, based on various conceptual models, including the Heinrich accident triangle, into occupational safety management systems in Ukraine has necessitated behaviour based safety audits (BBSA) – one of the important elements in reducing occupational injuries at an enterprise. To solve this problem, organizational solutions were developed, which are aimed at improving the procedure for conducting BBSA on the basis of determining the OH admissibility with the relevant change management. The algorithm of performing BBSA in five steps is offered, executed in the developed special software complex «Monitoring of safety», which includes a number of integral forms of identifying OHs which, taken as a whole, work as a unit to achieve the targeted result. A new approach is provided in presenting information on hazard identification in the form of a report based on the definition of the hazard factor, which ensures that managers make operational decisions to eliminate negative manifestations of the «human factor» in the production process, timely bringing OH to an acceptable level of safe work. Full automation of the process is provided, which does not require excessive participation of the expert-auditor in the formation of a full cycle of monitoring the state of occupational safety in the workplace. The scientific novelty involves identifying the interrelation between the hazard factor and the probability of danger or dangerous activity through the product of the number of discrepancies identified in the audit of one group on the proportion of employees responsible for organizing and ensuring safe working conditions in the unit to the total number of employees in the same subdivision. The practical value involves development of a software package «Monitoring of safety» based on the software environment of Microsoft Office – Excel-2019 with support for macros with special forms of checklists and automated OH analysis, which simplifies the work of an expert-auditor
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