This course will over the importance of workplace safety inspections and audits. Available in English or Spanish.

Workplace Safety Inspections / Audits - Awareness Training

This course will over the importance of workplace safety inspections and audits. Workplace inspections help prevent incidents, injuries and illnesses. Through a critical examination of the workplace, inspections help to identify and record hazards for corrective action. Department employees as well as health and safety committees can help plan, conduct, report and monitor inspections.

Author

MSSC

Last Update: 2/12/2023
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Course Overview

This training focuses on the general techniques and approaches that can be used to conduct efficient and effective safety inspections.

Safety inspections help employers, managers, managers as well as employees to identify unsafe work conditions and practices, how to eliminate any barriers to safe, efficient production, and to both recognize and share safer, more efficient ways to get the job done, as well as demonstrate their commitment to safety, raise safety awareness, meet regulatory requirements and avoid liability and prevent injuries and incidents.

What you will learn

  • How to conduct a Safety Inspection or Audit, the types of inspections and why inspections and audits should be conducted.
  • The importance of documenting findings, not just the concerns or bad items, but the positive good items as well.
  • The importance of sharing inspection findings with the employees and management.
  • The need to assign corrective actions and completion dates for those actions and confirm completion.