.gif) Active monitoring is fundamental to good safety management. It seeks to collect accurate information which forms the basis for practical decisions to drive improved safety performance. Turriff has recently introduced two new initiatives to reinforce its active monitoring process: The ‘team safety log book’ and the 'near miss hazard card'.
The team leader is the team safety log book owner. The log book approach seeks to encourage clients, contractors and Turriff team members to document compliance issues. Clients such as SGN have been briefed on the log book at client meetings and on site team briefings.
Typical log book entries might include:
- Any exemplary performance or conditions observed
- Any unsafe acts, conditions or behaviors observed
- Appropriateness of on-site risk assessment
- Appropriateness of other documentation
- RSWA compliance
- Environmental controls - pollution & waste
- Technical issues – performance against standards
- Personnel issues
- Materials issues
- Sub-contractor issues
Contracts/Operations Managers are responsible for reviewing their team’s entries on a weekly basis – but urgent issues should be highlighted to them by their supervisors. The HSEQ Coordinator keeps a spreadsheet of how many entries have been made so we can monitor usage.
Each Turriff team now has a pack of near miss hazard cards. The aim of the cards is to identify potential hazards or near miss events. Actions can then be taken to eliminate the hazard or cause of the near miss and thereby pre-empt the potential for future near misses and accidents. For example, a tile may have fallen off a roof. The action to be taken could include an inspection of the roof, replacement of the tile, and repair work to prevent a repetition.
To raise the profile of the hazard cards a donation of £1 is being made to charity for each completed card submitted by team members. |
