HSSEIA BEST PRACTICE
One of the “root causes” of workplace injuries,
illnesses, and incidents is the failure to identify
or recognize hazards that are present, or
that could have been anticipated. Petrofac
worksites should ensure a proactive, ongoing
process is in place to identify and assess
hazards also to take immediate actions to
eliminate and or manage hazards in order to
minimize the risk.
What hazard hunt techniques can be used?
A combination of techniques and activities can be used to
ensure that hazard hunts are being effective, such as:
PAI audits Campaigns
Walkthrough Competitions
Inspections Active Monitoring
Hazard hunts should ensure involvement of workers from all work
areas, shifts, trades and functions including senior management.
Cold eye review
A process should be put in place which enables
workers to conduct a hazard hunt on an area different
from the one they are currently working in.
A new set of eyes can help identify hazards that others might
miss after seeing them every day. Workers become normalized
to the hazard and are unable to see them. As such, a cold eye
review is needed. Each site should develop a system which
allows workers from one area to perform a hazard hunt of
another area. This should ensure engagement of various
stakeholders and trades so representative should be nominated
ahead of time and a new area should be reviewed every time.
This should include as a minimum but not limited to:
Having a formal process for conducting
site hazard hunts
Analysing hazard hunt findings to identify
potential trends and improve site safety practices
Hazard hunt guidance should be in place for hazard hunts. The
guide should provide details of techniques and tools to be used
also identify roles and responsibilities. A Hazard hunt schedule
should be maintained based on the location current activities and
communicated to all stakeholders.
Hazard spotting checklists
Relevant hazard spotting checklists or job aids should be
available and communicated to workers.
CONTROLS
Identified hazards should be immediately controlled to
protect workers until more permanent solutions can be
implemented if required.
INCENTIVE PROGRAM
An incentive programmes should be in place to encourage
workers to identify hazards and propose solutions.
REPORTING
Hazard identification findings should be logged on the
workplace Hazard register, controls and mitigation
measures should be identified. The trend analysis should
be reported in the monthly report reflecting the area of
attention for the month.
TRAINING AND AWARENESS
Workers should be trained so they understand and can
recognise the hazards they may encounter in their own
jobs as well as more general work-related hazards.
REVIEW
Hazard hunt process and techniques should be regularly
reviewed to ensure effectiveness.