Identifying and Controlling Hazards
Course 101
Safety Certified Supervisor Series

MODULE FIVE: CONTROLLING HAZARDS

Maintenance Strategies to Control Hazards

What two general types of maintenance processes are needed?

1. Preventive maintenance to make sure equipment and machinery operates safely and smoothly.
2. Corrective maintenance to make sure equipment and machinery gets back into safe operation quickly.

Hazard Tracking Procedures

An essential part of any day-to-day safety and health effort is the correction of hazards that occur in spite of your overall prevention and control program. Documenting these corrections is equally important, particularly for larger sites.

Documentation is important because:

• It keeps management and safety staff aware of the status of long-term correction items;
• It provides a record of what occurred, should the hazard reappear at a later date; and
• It provides timely and accurate information that can be supplied to an employee who reported the hazard.

 

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