Leaders Follow Up
To ensure control measures are currently effective and remain so, employers should track progress in implementing controls, inspect and evaluate controls once they are installed, and follow routine preventive maintenance practices.
Follow up to make sure improvements are working.
Managers, supervisors, and safety committees should conduct regular inspections, observations, and surveys to assess the progress of the various measures being taken to confirm controls are effective.
Below are additional actions leaders can take to ensure effective correction of hazardous conditions, unsafe behaviors, and systemic weaknesses:
- Ask the following questions to verify the implementation:
- Have all control measures been implemented according to the hazard control plan?
- Have engineering controls been properly installed and tested?
- Have workers been appropriately trained so that they understand the controls, including how to operate engineering controls, safe work practices, and PPE use requirements?
- Are controls being used correctly and consistently?
- Conduct regular inspections (and industrial hygiene monitoring, if indicated) to confirm that engineering controls are operating as designed.
- Evaluate control measures to determine if they are effective or need to be modified. Involve workers in the evaluation of the controls. If controls are not effective, identify, select, and implement further control measures that will provide adequate protection.
- Confirm that work practices, administrative controls, and PPE use policies are being followed.
- Conduct routine preventive maintenance of equipment, facilities, and controls to help prevent incidents due to equipment failure.
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2-8. Which of the following is a recommended action leaders should take to confirm hazard controls are working?
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