Conduct a documented safety walk and report to the committee

What is going on

The health and safety committee meets on 16 September and Helena Marsh wants a documented safety walk of the press room and bindery beforehand. Open items in the Incident and Hazard Register include a rattling extraction hood over the B2 washup station, a courier walking through the forklift zone, and the folder gluer guard damage. The Hazardous Chemicals Register was last reviewed in April and the press room store has had new deliveries since. The walk must produce a ranked list of risks and recommended actions that the committee can assign to owners, and the findings must reference the relevant policies and procedures.

Your brief

Plan and carry out a safety walk of the press room and bindery, verify the open register items and the chemical storage, identify new hazards, rank the risks and prepare a short written report with recommended actions for the committee.

Work through it

You do not need to do it all. Doing a few of these will show you what the work is like. Your ticks and notes stay on this device.

• Read the Occupational Health and Safety Policy, the Ink, Solvent and Chemical Handling Procedure and the Emergency Response and Evacuation Plan and build a walk checklist from their requirements.
• Review every Open and Under investigation item in the Incident and Hazard Register and every Tagged out item in the Machine Maintenance Log for the two areas before the walk.
• Walk the press room with Tom Ngata, check the extraction fault, the chemical storage against the Hazardous Chemicals Register and the spill kit, and record findings with photographs where safe.
• Walk the bindery with Mei-Ling Chau, check guillotine light curtain test records, the folder gluer tag out, the forklift drop zone marking and housekeeping.
• Record any new hazard found in the Incident and Hazard Register and any machine fault in the Machine Maintenance Log.
• Rank each finding by likelihood and consequence and recommend an action, an owner and a timeframe following the hierarchy of controls.
• Write a two page report for the committee summarising the walk, the ranked risks and the recommended actions, and give it to Helena Marsh before the meeting.

What someone in this role would produce

• Walk checklist built from the documents
• Findings record with new register and log entries
• Risk ranked action list
• Committee report