What is a Safety Audit and a specific investigation?
Safety audit-Risk Assessment sets the acceptable levels for practices and procedures in the workplace. Safety audit provide for regular checks to ensure that acceptable levels of risk are being met and to identify new or emergin risks which ar then subject to risk assessment.
Investigation of Specific Instances-where an injury or potential injury event occurs, the specific event is investigated to identify whether the event is a new or already identified hazard, whether it is a feature of the programmed safety audit. A detailed investigation is undertaken to determine reasons for the event, the urgency of action required to prevent reoccurence and the ongoing management of the procedures, processes and actions in the work environment which precipitated the event.
Safety audit-is checking the procedures or operation to make sure everything goes smoothly: an investigation is when an incident has occured and it is reviewed to discover why it occured and what cause the problem happen.
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