Health & Safety Compliance Assessment

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OH&S Policy

• Has top management, established, implemented and maintained an OH&S policy that:

• Includes a commitment to provide safe and healthy working conditions for the prevention of work-related injury?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Includes a commitment to eliminate hazards and reduce OH&S risks?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Includes a commitment to consultation and participation of workers, and where they exist, workers representatives?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Organizational roles, responsibilities, accountabilities and authorities

• Does top management:

• Ensure responsibilities, accountabilities and authorities for relevant roles within the OH&S management system are assigned and communicated at all levels within the organization and maintained as documented information?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Assign the responsibility and authority to ensure the OH&S management system conforms to the requirements of ISO 45001?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Report on the performance of the OH&S management system?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Consultation and participation of workers

• Does your organization establish, implement and maintain processes for consultation and participation of workers at all applicable levels and functions and where they exist, workers representatives in the development, planning, implementation, evaluation and actions for improvement of the OH&S management system?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Does your organization

• Provide mechanisms, time, training and resources necessary for participation?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Provide timely access to clear, understandable and relevant information about the OH&S management system?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Does your organization emphasize the consultation of non-managerial workers on the following:

• Establishing the OH&S policy?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Assigning organizational roles, responsibilities, accountabilities and authorities as applicable?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Determining how to fulfil legal requirements and other requirements?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Determining the mechanisms for their consultation and participation?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Actions to eliminate hazards and reduce OH&S risks?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Investigating incidents and nonconformities and determining corrective actions?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Planning for the OH&S management system

• Does your organization consider its context, interested parties and the scope of the OH&S MS and determine the risks and opportunities that need to be addressed to:

• Give assurance that the OH&S MS can achieve its intended outcome(s)?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Prevent, or reduce, undesired effects?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Achieve continual improvement?

  Good

  Fair

  Poor

  N/A

• Does your organization plan actions to:

• Address risks and opportunities?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Address applicable legal requirements and other requirements?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Does the organisation have a legal register in place which shows it compliance to each identified requirement?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Prepare for, and respond to, emergency situations?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Does your organization plan how to:

• Integrate and implement the actions into its OH&S MS processes or other business processes?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Evaluate the effectiveness of these actions?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Support

• Does your organization ensure that workers are competent (including the ability to identify hazards) on the basis of appropriate education, induction, training, or experience:

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Does your organization make workers aware of:

• The OH&S policy and OH&S objectives?

  Good

  Fair

  Poor

  N/A

• Their contribution to the effectiveness of the OH&S MS, including the benefits of improved OH&S performance?

  Good

  Fair

  Poor

  N/A

• The ability to remove themselves from work situations that they consider present an imminent danger to their life or health, as well as the arrangements for protecting them from undue consequences for doing so?

  Good

  Fair

  Poor

  N/A

Information and communication

• Has your organization established, implemented and maintained the process(es) needed for the internal and external communications relevant to the OH&S management system

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Has your organization determined relevant to the the OH&S MS communications process:

• On what it will communicate?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• When to communicate?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• With whom to communicate?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• How to communicate?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Does your organization:

• Ensure its communication process(es) enables workers to contribute to continual improvement?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Operation planning and control

• Does your organization determine, plan, implement, control and maintain the processes to meet requirements of the OH&S MS by:

• Maintaining and retaining documented information to the extent necessary to have confidence that the processes have been carried out as planned?

  Good

  Fair

  Poor

  N/A

• On multi-employer workplaces, has the organization implemented a process for coordinating the relevant parts of the OH&S MS with other organizations?

  Good

  Fair

  Poor

  N/A

Management of change

• Does your organization review the consequences of unintended changes and take action to mitigate any adverse effects, as necessary?

  Good

  Fair

  Poor

  N/A

Procurement

• Has your organization established, implemented and maintained a process(es) to control the procurement and services in order to ensure their conformity with the OH&S MS?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Contractors

• Has your organization co-ordinated its procurement process(es) with its contractor(s) to identify hazards and to assess and control the OH&S risks arising from the:

• Contractors’ activities and operations that impact the organization?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Has the organization ensured that the requirements of its OH&S MS are met by contractors and their workers?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Does the organization’s procurement process(es) define and apply OH&S criteria for the selection of contractors?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Performance evaluation

• Has the organization determined:

• What needs to be monitored and measured?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• The methods for monitoring, measurement, analysis and performance evaluation, as applicable, to ensure valid results?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• The criteria against which the organization will evaluate its OH&S performance?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• When the monitoring and measuring shall be performed?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• When the results from monitoring and measurement shall be analyzed, evaluated and communicated?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Does your organization retain appropriate documented information:

• As evidence of the monitoring, measurement, analysis and performance evaluation results?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• On the maintenance, calibration or verification of measuring equipment?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Internal Audit

• Has your organization:

• Planned, established, implemented and maintain an audit program(s) including the consultation requirements, which takes into consideration the importance of the processes concerned and the results of previous audits?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Selected competent auditors and conducted audits to ensure objectivity and the impartiality of the audit process?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Ensured that the results of the audits are reported to relevant managers, workers, and where they exist, workers representatives, and other relevant interested parties?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Management review

• Does management review include consideration of: changes in external and internal issues that are relevant to the OH&S management system including risks and opportunities?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Do the outputs of the management review include decisions related to: Opportunities to improve integration of the OH&S MS with other business processes?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Has top management communicated the relevant outputs of the management review to its relevant workers, and where they exist, workers representatives?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Improvement

• Have you determined:

• What to do when an incident or a nonconformity occurs, does the organization react in a timely manner to the incident or nonconformity and as applicable: 1. Take action to control, and correct it? 2. Deal with the consequences?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Does the organization evaluate, with the participation of workers (see 5.4) and the involvement of other relevant interested parties, the need for corrective action to eliminate the root cause(s) of the incident or nonconformity, in order that it does not recur or occur elsewhere, by: 1. Investigating the incident or reviewing the nonconformity? 2. Determining the cause(s) of the incident or nonconformity? Determining if similar incidents or nonconformities exist, or could potentially occur?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Arrangements

• Has the organisation got effective arrangements for the following aspects?

• Fire Safety

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Fire Risk Assessments are available?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Fire Alarm checks are being carried out

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Fire Alarm is serviced annually

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Fire Extinguishers are available

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Staff are trained on the Fire Procedures

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• There are evacuation instructions available on site

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Key information is available in appropriate languages

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• First Aid

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Sufficent staff are trained in First Aid?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Sufficent First Aid kits are available?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Inspection of lifting equipment

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Inspection of Electrical Equipment

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Inspection of owned premises

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Risk Assessments

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are Risk Assessments cascaded / shared with staff?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Record Management

• Are there records available for the following?

• Fire Alarm Weekly testing

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Fire Alarm Annual Testing

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Emergency Lighting Testing

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Vehicle Inspections

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Legionella temperature checks

  Yes

  No

  N/A

General Comments and observations

• General comments and observations