EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY
As part of the requirements of the
Workplace Safety and Health Act (Chapter 354A),Work place Safety and Health
(Safety and Health Management System and Auditing) Regulations 2009, HSE Consultancy
and Training Services Pte Ltd had received a formal request from Company XXXX
to undertake an Safety and Health Management System Audit on their SHMS manual
following two fatal
accidents and numerous safety lapses reported in it’s manufacturing site
located at XXXXX.
The scope of the audit focused on 7 Elements of the Safety and Health Management System, as a minimum standard, in fulfilling the requirements of Singapore Standard SS 506 Part 3 : 2006 Occupational safety and health (OSH) management system – Requirements for the chemical industry. The audit was undertaken on 20 August 2013 @ 1000 hours at XXXXXX
SUMMARY
OF AUDIT FINDINGS
|
Audit
Element |
Strengths |
Weaknesses |
|
Safety Policy
,Element 1 |
Nil |
No commitment from
the top management towards safety and health improvement due to no
established WSH goals, objectives and target, no prescription of WSH roles
and responsibilities for all level of employees from the top management |
|
Safety Work Procedure,
Element 2 |
Sampling on high risk activities in Company XXXX manufacturing
operations revealed high risk activities which include: - hot work, -steam boiler
preventive maintenance and; - two roll mill
operations were each established with safe work procedures and risk
assessment study undertaken |
Risk Assessment in
Company XXXX t is undertaken by the
individual department without cross functional collaboration. Hence there is
a high probability that hazards/risks still exist in Company XXXX manufacturing activities due to limited
knowledge ,experience and expertise of the single department that undertake
the risk assessment study |
|
Safety Training,
Element 3 |
Company XXXX
fulfilled the minimum requirement of the Factories ( Safety Training Order)
Regulations. Sampling on
facility training records revealed two technicians were qualified as First
Class Steam Boiler Attendant, Sampling on the
WSHO revealed Company XXXX WSHO had successfully completed his specialist
diploma in WSH and has a valid RSO license and is accredited by the Singapore
Ministry of Manpower |
Company XXXX no budget set aside for safety training to
improve its workforce WSH competency and this is also in line with the frequency of workplace accident
reported in Company XXXX which is
equivalent to one workplace accident per month |
|
Group Meetings
Element 4 |
Company XXXX WSH Safety Committee team is made up of
good mixes of cross functional employees which include maintenance, facility,
production, WSHO, director ,manager and engineer |
Company XXXX has no budget set aside for safety training
and this lead to poor WSH performance of the WSH Safety Committee team
members who are not trained and incompetent to assume their roles as WSH
Safety Committee team members |
|
Incident
Investigation & Analysis ,Element 5 |
Company XXXX have established procedures which defined
the roles and responsibilities of its employees in handling and reporting of
workplace incident Sampling from the
WSHO r incident investigation and analysis record revealed all workplace incidents reported in Company
XXXX were promptly investigated and
put on record and closed out in a timely manner |
Company XXXX Incident investigation team have poor WSH
performance not least because the team were not trained on the basic
investigation skills and the use of investigation tools ,making them helpless
during an incident investigation Company XXXX cannot depends on the solo work of the WSHO
to bring out change or to improve its workforce WSH performance as individual
efforts is limited Company XXXX need to groom and improve its incident
investigation team WSH competency by sending the team for external
investigation course to equip them with the knowledge, skills and attitudes |
|
Safety Inspections
Element 9 |
Company XXXX WSH Safety Committee team has a whole year
of inspection schedule
established for its site
monthly inspection . Following each
monthly site inspection, the WSH Safety Committee team never fail to put up the inspection report
and issued CAPA to the responsible persons as well as tracking the CAPA
implementation and closure by the responsible person |
Company XXXX WSH Safety Committee team have poor WSH performance not least because the
team were not trained on the basic inspection and audit skills ,making them
helpless during the monthly WSH safety committee team inspection Company XXXX cannot depends on the solo work of the WSHO
to bring out change or to improve its workforce WSH performance as individual
efforts is limited Company XXXX need to groom and improve its WSH Safety committee
team WSH competency by sending the team for external courses to equip them
with the knowledge, skills and attitudes |
|
Hazard Analysis
Element 11 |
Sampling on Company
XXXX high risk activities which
include steam boiler preventive maintenance, hot work and two roll mill
operations, revealed each has a risk
assessment established and hazards/risks identified in the risk assessment
have also been communicated to its employees |
Risk Assessment is
undertaken by individual department using a 3x3 risk assessment matrix with
no cross functional collaboration. This question
on the integrity of the risk
assessment study undertaken due to subjective interpretation of risks/hazards
by individuals as well as the lack of knowledge, expertise and experience in identifying
the foreseeable hazards Due to these flaws
in the risk assessment study, there is a high possibility that medium to high
risk hazards still exist in Company XXXX
manufacturing activities |
