Building on the inventory of critical tasks, your organization's senior supervisors can perform Task Hazard Assessments to quickly gauge which tasks should be a priority. If your guidelines specify that a full Hazardous Task Assessment must be performed on medium or high risk tasks, then hazards and controls can be captured for each detailed step.
Procedure Publishing Workflow
Workers complete self-assessments on the detailed steps for critical task procedures. Senior staff complete assessments on workers using actual equipment and scenarios, walk-throughs and table-top reviews of the worker's competency. Revisions to procedures must be verified and field-validated before being published. Depending on the significance of the changes the publisher can opt to:
Simply notify all competent workers and assessors;
Require acknowledgment;
Schedule a team review with a supervisor;
Require a new self-assessment; or
Reset workers as 'not-yet-competent' in the face of major changes to the procedure.
Entity Specific Procedures
For ease of maintenance, procedures can be defined high in the company tree and inherit down to all work places below. In order to address the specific nature of special assets and equipment, procedures can be defined much lower in the company tree to override those company or division default procedures.
Templates
By using the risk assessment-driven template for each document that is authored, your procedures all have a consistent layout and presentation to them. The ability to define different templates enforces consistency beyond what is possible within a typical attached MS Word file.
Publishing to PDF
Non-authors can simply double-click to open any procedure in the document library in PDF format.
