1. Conduct an audit of the following safety management system elements at your organization or at an organizationwith which you are familiar and for which you have access to the required information:SAFETY MANAGEMENTSYSTEM ELEMENTSANSI/AIHA Z10SECTIONSCOURSE TEXTCHAPTERS1. Management Leadership 3.1 5 62. Occupational Health andSafety Policy3.1.2 5BOS 3651 Total Environmental Health and Safety Management 4SAFETY MANAGEMENTSYSTEM ELEMENTSANSI/AIHA Z10SECTIONSCOURSE TEXTCHAPTERS3. Responsibility andAuthority3.1.3 54. Employee Participation 3.2 55. Initial and OngoingReviews4.1 4.1.1 4.1.2 76. Assessment andPrioritization4.2 8 9 107. Hierarchy of Controls 5.1.1 128. Design Review 5.1.2 139. Management of Change 5.1.2 1510. Procurement 5.1.3 1611. Emergency Preparedness 5.1.5 1112. Education Training andAwareness5.2 1113. Monitoring andMeasurement6.1 1714. Incident Investigation 6.2 1815. Audits 6.3 1916. Corrective and PreventiveActions6.4 1717. Feedback to the PlanningProcess6.5 2018. Management Review 7.1 7.2 20Some suggested sources for the objective evidence to support your evaluation:Documents:organizational safety manuals and instructions Safe Operating Procedures and JobHazard Analyses;Records:emails or letters from management to employees safety meeting minutes mishap logs auditreports OSHA citations inspection reports risk assessments and training records;Interviews:management personnel supervisors and employees; andObservation:walk through some workplaces to observe conditions for yourself.2. For each management system element discuss the objective evidence you found (or were unable to find).Evaluate the effectiveness of the organization s implementation of each element against available referencesources and best practice information. Use the following five-tier evaluation scheme to rate each element:World Class:OHS PerformanceStrong: Conforming/complete may have minor gaps with action plansModerate: Scattered non-conformances need to be addressed positive trends/major elements in placeSignificant Non-Conformances Exist:still needs focusMajor Effort Required:major or systemic non-conformances existAppropriate references include the course textbook textbooks from other college-level courses ANSI/AIHA Z10-2005other published consensus standards (ANSI ASSE AIHA ISO NFPA etc.) OSHA standards and voluntary guidelinesand articles published in professional journals. Blogs Wikipedia About.com Ask.com and other unmonitored Internetresources are not considered scholarly references and should not be used. Please contact your professor if you have anyquestions about the appropriateness of a reference source.3. If an element is found to be less than World Class provide recommendations for improvement. Be sure to useappropriate scholarly reference sources to support your recommendations.4.Conclude the audit report with a summary of the overall status of the organization s safety management system.The Course Project must be a minimum of seven pages and a maximum of 10 pages not including the title abstract andreference pages. A minimum of five professional references/sources must be used. Follow APA formatting for the paper
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