How to Perform an Effective Pre-Startup Safety Review?
No matter your business, you need to create a safe place for people to work. Any health and safety hazards will make it difficult for your employees to do their jobs. You can even face legal issues if your workplace is unsafe. Thankfully, you can follow steps to make sure the environment is conducive to productivity and wellness. A pre-startup safety review is an excellent way to evaluate potential problems and areas to improve. Effectively running through this process will give you and your workers peace of mind.
Know What It Is First, understand what a pre-start review is and why it is crucial in your business. This process does the following for employees: ▪
Thoroughly examines every tool, machine, structure, and component that a worker will use on the job
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Documents in writing any safety hazards with these items
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Begins at the design phase of each item
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Only qualified professionals should conduct a review
This review does not analyze job tasks. It should also not take place after an apparatus is already in place and functioning.
Do a Pre-Start Health and Safety Review Under the Right Circumstances Not all industries and workplaces require this review. The law deems that the reviews are only necessary for factories. Whether your workplace is a factory may not always be clear. If you have a process to manufacture goods and products, a review will be required. If you have an assembly line and machinery to inspect or finish products, you should do a review. Types of factories include water treatment plants, warehouses,
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