One of the
major criticism's levelled at businesses today is that whilst a company
may have procedures in place there has been no in-depth analysis of the
tasks being carried out to provide the base from which the procedures have
been written. Some businesses are operating with procedures copied from
other organisations and under close examination bear no relevance to the
equipment or environment in the current place of business. In sites where
the KIS Safety System has been introduced, procedures had already been
compiled over many years of operations. For the KIS Safety System to work
effectively it requires a well structured JHA with a logical flow of the
steps carried out within the task, the hazards encountered in each of the
steps, a hazard risk ranking, the controls identified to eliminate or
minimise the hazard and a final risk ranking with the controls in place as
the base document. It is from this base document that all other documents
and reports are generated. To achieve this in most cases the existing
procedure has to be written backwards i.e. the existing procedure's steps
listed and from the actions or controls the hazards identified. In doing
this it saves the business from having to re-write all the tasks from
scratch, saves valuable time and recognises previous knowledge relating to
the procedures compilation. In this way we facilitate in the knowledge
management retention of the organisation.
In today's
modern businesses it is difficult to find time to carry out the above, so
to overcome this KIS Safety can provide your company with a Procedures to
JHA input service where the initial JHA is drafted from your existing
procedures, returned to your people for review and corrections and then in
final draft submitted for sign off. It is interesting to note that one of
the outcomes in this exercise is that it provides management with an
overview of current work practices and areas where additional training may
be required eg controls in place not implemented.
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Contact Information
Within Australia
Phone: (08) 9448 9512
Fax: (08) 9203 7379
Email:
info@kissafety.com.au
Phone Outside Australia: 61-8-9448 9512
Fax Outside Australia: 61-8-9203 7379