Safety Audit Analyse – An Accident Study in Chemical Industry

Abstract

Accidents are costlier to management in an industry and affect reputation of the company, financial position, quality and quantity of the output and morale of the workforce. In addition to this, new hazards are emerging in work place resulting in accidents to workforce due to modernization and mechanization of industrial activities. In Industry, management adopts several methods to safeguard the Safety and Health of plant and people. Amongst the various methods, Safety audit is one of the dependable methods to assess all the factors of safety and health activities. Safety Audit is a systematic examination of the plant and document review by a team with appropriate backgrounds and experience. This is an intensive plant inspection intended to identify the plant conditions and operating procedures that could lead to accidents or significant losses of life and property. Purpose of the audit is identification of hazards arising due to deviations from applicable statutes, non statutory standards and codes of practices, safety related instructions of manufacturers of equipment and safety operating procedures as supplied by the technology suppliers and subsequent revisions etc. However, even after safety audits, accidents are occurring in industries, which leads to huge loss to nation in terms of loss to workforce and management. In order to prevent such losses, safety audit system to be strengthened by modifying applicable statutes for industries and ports. In order to modify statute, it has to be substantiated for need of modification and ways of modification. This report basically tell the ways to carryout above said work by collectively getting data for recommending changes in statutes by conducting safety audit in selected industries, studying major accidents occurred in the past and analysing existing latest technologies for the process and equipment.