Introduction
This report follows a workplace inspection of an Oil Service Tools Company on the 4th November 2012 stating some good practices and poor health and safety practices carried out within the workplace area. The facility has different departments and one main office building. The office building mainly occupied by the senior health and safety practitioner dedicated for the whole facility, managers and global product line managers. The facility is divided for 4 main sheds, 3 sheds have only one dedicated department and one shed has two departments. Main activities carried out inside the workplace are inspection, welding, pressure testing, driving, servicing and radiation. There is one main access to the facility from the main road and a dedicated parking area for various departments operating within this facility.
The facility is occupied by 127 employees whose roles revolve around servicing and inspecting the equipments which come from the field site. Most of the field engineers will be on call since they work as back to back (Rotation). As a result, entrance and exit of the facility is heavily used. Potential hazards include slips, trips and falls, musculoskeletal injury, collision of pedestrians and vehicles, electrical shock, ionizing radiation, burn and work equipment hazards.
This inspection focused on all activities mentioned earlier carried out within the facility workplace including welfare facilities provided by the company.
Executive Summary
It was pleasing to observe a high standard of housekeeping. There were adequate lighting inside and outside the workplace and good environmental factors such as well-ventilated workshops. The welfare facilities provided by the company is well maintained and in a very good condition. Moreover, these welfare facilities were clean and plenty of toilets and washrooms for the amount of employees operating inside the facility.
However, during the inspection it was