What is Safety audit ?

Safety Audit is a comparative method. comparative techniques are based on hazard identification by comparing with standards. The various methods are checklist, safety audit, hazard indices and preliminary hazard analysis.

Purpose

For ensuring that procedures match design intent.

Applicability

In all phases of the plant and periodicity .of review depending on the level of hazard.

Data required

Applicable codes of practice, rules, acts and guides, plant flow sheet, P & I diagrams, start-up/ shutdown procedure, emergency control, injury report, testing and inspection report, material properties.

Results

Qualitative — the inspection teams report deviation from design and planned procedures and recommends additional safety features.

It is an escalated plant investigation proposed to recognize the plant conditions or working strategies that could prompt mishaps or huge misfortunes of life and property. It is utilized to guarantee that the actualized wellbeing/hazard the board programs meet the first desires and guidelines. It is likewise called 'Wellbeing survey', 'Cycle audit', and 'Misfortune anticipation survey'. 

The outcomes are subjective in nature. The survey looks to distinguish deficiency in plan, working techniques that should be reconsidered and to assess the sufficiency of gear support or substitution. 

Basically, wellbeing review is a basic - examination of viability of the current security program in a plant. The audit searches for major risky circumstance and draws out the zones that need improvement. 

The means for the ID cycle are: 
  1. Getting reaction from plant on a pre-review survey;
  2. Arrangement of agenda, examination and meeting plant staff; and 
  3. Planning of wellbeing review report as suggestion. 

Appointing grades for adequacy of wellbeing the board of the plant in the territories, for example, association, working methods, observing, upkeep, and so forth is conceivable, a score card can be set up to get an evaluation of security status of plant. While this method is most regularly applied to working plants it is similarly pertinent to steer plants, storerooms or backing capacities. 

The periodicity of such examinations relies upon the danger engaged with the cycle and the responsibility of the administration. It generally differs tlom once in a year to one of every seven years

Why Safety Audit Required?

For two reasons, safety auditing is mainly required:
  1. Moral requirement: For the purpose of preserving safety (accident-free atmosphere) in industry, it is important that all work processes should be thoroughly tested at regular intervals from a safety point of view and that deficiencies found should be remedied by due compliance with safety recommendations. -For a set class of industry (e.g. the chemical industry), a pro-determined checklist is useful, but audit points are variable and should be better tailored to the type of industry to be audited.
  2. Legal Requirement: As per various State Factories Rules 1963 and Rule 10 & 12 of the Manufacture, Storage and Import of Hazardous Chemicals Rules 1989 require the safety audit reports to be submitted within a defined period to the authorities concerned.