Information

  • Document No.

  • Audit Title

  • Client / Site

  • Conducted on

  • Prepared by

  • Location
  • Personnel

Personal Protective Equipment. (PPE)

  • Hard hats / head protection worn by all employees<br>

  • Eye protection worn when required

  • Face shield being used when required

  • Gloves / hand protection being used when required

  • Hearing protection being used when required

  • Appropriate respirator being used when required

  • Work boots worn by all employees (no gym shoes, sandals, bare feet)

Electrical

  • Extension cords in safe condition for use (no cuts in outer insulation, no exposed wires, no missing ground prong)

  • Electrical cords compliant with our assured grounding program

  • GFCI being used if required by conditions or project requirement

  • Electrical panels appropriately covered or our employees protected from coming within 6' of a live exposed panel

  • 10' minimum clearance from live high voltage power lines

  • Temporary lights in our work areas guarded

  • Halogen light bulb guards in place

  • Proper use of temporary power boxes

  • Lock out / tag out procedures in place and being implemented if required

  • Are all energized electrical components protected to reduce employee exposures

Housekeeping and Other

  • Clear access to building, structure & work location

  • Are slip, trip & fall hazards in reasonable condition to minimize risk of injury

  • Impalement protection

  • Proper material storage

  • Fire extinguishers present and charged

  • Adequate lighting

Mobile Baker Type Scaffolds

  • Scaffolds in safe condition for use

  • Wheels / casters locked when required

  • Guardrails in place when required

  • Stabilizer outriggers in place when required when double stacking or higher

  • Scaffold being used within its rated weight capacity limits

  • Being used in a safe appropriate manner

Mini-Perry Mobile Workstands

  • In safe condition for use

  • No one working above 3rd rung level

  • If accessing 3rd rung level, are 3 platforms being used in stair-step fashion

  • Being used within rated weight capacity limits (4' model = 250 lbs, 5' model = 300 lbs per platform)

  • Overall, being used in a safe manner

Pipe or Frame scaffolding

  • All scaffold components free of damage and in safe condition for use

  • Cross braces in place at all levels

  • Safety toggle pins in place to prevent uplift of sections

  • Scaffold fully planked at working level

  • Scaffold wheels / casters locked when occupied

  • Guardrails in place when required (10' per OSHA or must follow G.C. rule if more stringent

  • Stabilizer outriggers being used or is scaffold secured to structure if higher than 4:1 height to width ratio

Fall Protection (6' fall hazard exposures)

  • Guardrails or barricades in place protecting our employees from falls of 6' or more to lower levels

  • Do guardrails meet OSHA requirements

  • Floor holes adequately covered within OSHA requirements (secured, demarcated, capable of supporting 2 x load)

  • If using fall arrest or restraint equipment, was it inspected and in safe condition for use

  • Proper 5,000 lb anchorage point

  • Roof edge or sharp edges protected from cutting our lifelines, lanyards, etc.

  • Is all fall arrest and/or restraint equipment being used in the correct appropriate manner

  • Is the employee's free fall distance limited to 6' or less

  • Are all employees protected from fall exposures of 6' or more to lower levels

  • If using metal pan roof anchors, are all baseplate holes filled in with 1 1/4" # 12 tek screws and using a retractable lanyard

Aerial Lifts

  • Aerial lifts in safe condition for use

  • Floor surface free of pits, holes & depressions which could cause tipping

  • Safety gate or chain closed

  • Feet on platform floor (no climbing or standing on safety rails)

  • Lift being used within rated weight capacity

  • 10' clearance from power lines

  • If using boom lift, safety harness worn by employees and are they tied off to manbasket's anchorage point

  • Overall, are aerial lifts being used in a safe appropriate manner

Ladder Safety

  • Are ladders in safe condition for use

  • Extension ladders being used to access higher levels extended 3' and secured

  • No standing on top 3 rungs of straight ladders & top 2 steps of portable A-frame ladders

  • Are portable A-frame ladders being used in the fully open position with the spreader arms locked

  • No one using make-shift ladders such as 5-gallon buckets to stand and work on

  • Ladders or stairs with handrails being used when access area has a > 19" break in elevation

  • Are ladders being used safely, appropriately and for their intended use

Stairs

  • Are stair treads filled in

  • Do stairs have handrails

  • Do stairways have adequate lighting

  • Are the stairs clear of debris, materials & equipment

Stilt Safety

  • Are stilts in safe condition for use

  • Floor conditions safe for stilt usage

  • Stilts being used in a safe manner

  • No stilt usage on computer floors

Tool safety

  • Are tools and cords in safe condition for use

  • Blade guard or machine guard in place and working appropriately

  • Ground prongs in place on tools and equipment that require them

Back Injury or Lifting Related Hazards

  • Are employees using safe lifting procedures

Hazard Communication

  • Are M.S.D.S. readily available

Medical

  • 1st aid kit accessible to employees

  • Occupational health clinic & emergency medical center established

Other Employee Safety Issues

  • Any other employee safety issues that are not noted above (unsafe acts, unsafe behavior, violating co. rules, Etc.)

Other Job Site Safety Issues

  • Any other job site safety issues that are not noted above

  • Safety Inspection Completed by Peter Graham, Safety Director for International Decorators, Inc.

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