OSHEM Solutions undertakes environmental, health and safety inspections across a range of industries including mining, manufacturing, construction and transport. Our inspections are a formalised evaluation of workplace conditions and work practices for the purposes of determining conformance with relevant requirements.
OSHEM Solutions’ consultants are trained, qualified, independently certified and experienced auditors and use inspection as part of OHS and Environmental Audits or as a stand-alone activity.
Following a few examples of some of our most recent OHS and Environmental inspection related projects. Please note that these are examples only. If you have any questions or would like to discuss your proposed assignment, please contact us for a no obligation discussion with one of our principal consultants.
Safety & Environmental Inspections
Construction Site Inspections
Development of Inspection Programs
Workplace Inspections during Audits
Construction Site Inspections
While it has been generally accepted that construction is a hazardous industry, events over recent years have brought the attention of media, the general public and the watchful gaze of OHS and environmental regulators across the country.
As such, many in the industry have deployed additional resources to supervise and monitor the activities of their employees and sub-contractors. OSHEM Solutions has been hired by several clients to assist in this function; providing qualified, experienced and independent expertise to their workplace safety and environmental inspection program.
The CEO of one of our clients regularly engages us to visit his construction sites and report our findings directly back to him, as well as to his Project Managers. Not only do we have a “fresh eyes” approach to his business but we can provide improvement ideas, based on what we see elsewhere in the industry. Furthermore, he sees our inspections as an opportunity to coach his Supervisors in better understanding his integrated (safety and environmental) management system and their legal responsibilities.
Development of Inspection Programs
Whilst we undertake inspections for many of our clients, some engage us to professionally develop workplace inspection programs (including checklists) and train their people in carrying them out.
One example is a manufacturing client who required targeted inspection processes for its Supervisors to verify that the organisation’s safety and environmental management system was being followed. OSHEM Solutions developed several tools, based on the clients system, to prompt users to check key points of each risk area, score them for compliance and note down any actions required to improve compliance.
Topics covered included:
- Confined Spaces
- Hot Work (e.g. welding, grinding and other spark or heat producing tasks)
- Work at Heights
- Fixed Plant
- Mobile Plant
- Emergency Response
Workplace Inspection during Audits
OSHEM Solutions undertakes a range of audits for our clients who are made up of industry leaders in manufacturing, mining, energy and construction. As part of any of these audits, we undertake workplace inspections.
These inspections are a crucial component of determining compliance with occupational health & safety, environment and quality requirements. Click the link if you would like to know more about the type of Safety and Environmental Audits we regularly conduct.