Whether it’s your sole assignment, or just one of many, the responsibility to audit implementation of your corporate Safety and Health Program (SHP) will require you to periodically abandon your desk, drive to some remote site, and walk/look/ask/sniff around. Any day may turn out to be the only day to spot injury, illness and death on the horizon.
While checklists can be important backstops to evaluate the effectiveness of a contractor’s SHP, they can’t frame the whole site safety picture where potential injury, illness and death lurk. Some warning stones should actually be turned over by hand on site every day workers are potentially exposed.