Audits and inspections 

Inspection: Is a wall-to-wall inspection, looking for any hazardous condition or practice.

Audit: An audit is when you focus your inspection on three general topics. Such as Personal protective equipment, ladders, fire prevention etc. The audit can also be a focus on safety, quality or production.  However one of the three items must be safety related.  A loss control audit involves three steps: auditing the current situation, intervening to identify and implement solutions, and evaluating the outcomes and needs for further improvement.  

Inspections / audits are necessary tools in identifying problems and evaluating risk before accidents and incidents happen.  A well-managed inspection program will:

-Identify potential problems.

-Identify equipment deficiencies.

-Identify improper employee actions.

-Identify effects of facility modifications.

-Identify inadequacies in remedial actions.

-Provide management self-appraisals.

-Demonstrate management commitment.

OSHA has several inspections categories they are:   Imminent Dangers, General Scheduled/ Programmed inspection, Complaint, Accident, Fatality or Catastrophe, National or local emphases inspections, Focused, Follow-up inspections and 11 C investigations. 

Remember OSHA looks for hazards and if an employee is exposed a citation may/will be issued.  OSHA does not need a standard to cite they can use the OSHA Act Section 5 (a) (1), also known as the General Duty Clause, is a provision of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 that requires employers to provide a workplace free of recognized hazards that are causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees.  Normally this can only be cited for a company whose employees are exposed - cannot used with multi-employer sites. 

We can help you conduct these inspections or audits; we can set up a time to do regular scheduled inspections or audits.  We can do them with your supervisors or foreman so they can learn to do these inspections on their own.  We can provide on site hand written reports, or sent a formal written document via email to your company.  We can help with abatement, knowing the standard is one thing understanding how to fix them for long term is a whole other thing.  We can help you with abatement.

OSHA has a focused inspection Guidance to Compliance Officers for Focused Inspections in the Construction Industry. | Occupational Safety and Health Administration (osha.gov).   We can help you set this up for your site if it qualifies. 

How can we help:

Provide training

Conduct on site audits/inspections.

Schedule regular site audits or inspections. 

Provide written program or policy on audits and inspections for who does what when.  

Provide forms / programs for conducting inspections.

Training on how OSHA does site inspections 

Teach management hazard recognition.

Provide third party audits or inspections. 

Assist with pre use inspections.

Provide documentation of regular scheduled safety inspections 

Provide your legal counsel with audit or inspections under attorney client privilege. 

If you need more information, please feel free to contact for more information or discuss further.