Introduction to DuPont Safety Principles

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Introduction to DuPont Safety PrinciplesPPD
Safety Audit Program
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• You get the level of safety
• that you demonstrate you want.
• (DuPont Proverb)

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Outline

• Principles of DuPonts approach to safety
• Overview of PPDs Audit Program
• Details of PPDs Audit Program
• Forms and examples

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DuPont core belief
All injuries can be prevented
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Benefits of Good Safety Management

• Reduction in the cost of medical and workers
  compensation
• Greater productivity
• Improved product or research quality
• Overall operation improvement

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Basic Principles of Good Safety Management

• Management Commitment
• Documented Safety Philosophy
• Safety Goals and Objectives
• Committee Organization for Safety
• Line Responsibility for Safety
• Supportive Safety Staff

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Basic Principles of Good Safety Management
(contd)

• Rules and Procedures
• Audits
• Safety Communications
• Safety Training
• Accident Investigations
• Motivation

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DuPonts Experience

• A ten-year study of all serious injuries
  occurring across all Du Pont sites showed that
• 96 of the injuries resulted from the unsafe acts
  of people or from poor work practices
• Only 4 of the injuries resulted from unsafe
  conditions

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DuPonts Expectations for Safety Performance

• Employees must
• Make safety equal to all other aspects of the job
  and in PPD, safety is 1
• Follow all safety rules and procedures
• Management must
• Accept responsibility for prevention of injuries
• Accept responsibility for safety training

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Supervisors Responsibilities

• Know, communicate, and enforce existing standards
• Recognize the need for revised standards
• Develop new procedures and rules when necessary
• Train employees to follow all rules and procedures

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ESH Responsibilities

• Serve as advisors when addressing supervisors
  questions arising from audits
• Perform audits as a crosscheck of the audits
  conducted by line management
• Help to address safety issues uncovered in audits
• Compile, analyze and disseminate data collected
  from the audits

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Overview of PPDs Audit Program
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PPDs Audit Program

• An opportunity to spend a few minutes observing
  activities in the workplace and then discuss what
  youve seen with your employees
• This is done with an eye towards safe, and
  unsafe, behavior
• Mitigate hazards
• Record observations

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Proposed auditing in AD areas during the shutdown

• The main focus of todays training is the
  situation where a supervisor is auditing his or
  her people in their normal work areas
• It is likely that PPD supervisors will be asked
  to conduct safety audits of their people who are
  working in Accelerator Division areas during the
  shutdown
• Audits in AD areas will be conducted in a similar
  fashion to those in PPD areas

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DuPonts nomenclature

• Inspection versus
• Things
• Passive
• Experts (them)
• Negative
• Document / Follow up

• Audit
• People
• Interactive (I care)
• Everyone (us)
• Positive Negative
• Document / Follow up

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Purpose of PPDs Safety Audit

• Identify safe and unsafe, acts or conditions
• Identify areas for improvement
• Follow up when mitigating actions are indicated
• Accumulate data for tracking trends related to
  safety

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Types of safety audits

• Scheduled
• Unannounced
• Compliance with standards
• Adherence to procedures

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Benefits of safety audits

• Promote safe behavior
• Test for compliance with standards
• Establish standards
• Identify weaknesses
• Accumulate data
• Prevent injuries

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Who conducts PPD safety audits?

• Division Office
• Department Heads
• Group Leaders
• Supervisors
• ESH Staff
• Project Management

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Proposed frequency of audits

• Division Office Quarterly
• Department Heads, Level 1 Project Managers
  Quarterly
• Group Leaders, Level 2 Project Managers Monthly
• ESH Staff Monthly
• Supervisors, Level 3 Project Managers Weekly

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Where are audits conducted?

• Wherever your employees are working
• Group work areas
• Individual work spaces

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Auditing

• Focus on one or two activities
• One location or portion of a building
• One or two processes
• Plan for a duration of an hour or less

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Details of PPDs Audit Program
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Elements of our Safety Audit Process

• Read the Audit Checklist prior to the walkthrough
• Visit the work area and talk with employees
  (without paperwork in hand)
• Mitigate any unsafe situation
• After the walkthrough Complete the checklist and
  the Audit Form
• Follow up, if necessary

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What to look for during an audit

• Reactions of people
• Positions of people
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Tools and equipment
• Procedures
• Housekeeping

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What to look for during an audit (cont.)

• Reactions of people
• Does anyone adjust PPE, change position, or
  rearrange job when the safety auditor appears?
• Does anyone abruptly stop work, attach grounds,
  or perform LOTO?
• Positions of people
• Is anyone in danger of injuring himself by
  pulling or lifting heavy objects?
• Is anyone in a position where he or she could
  fall, be trapped, collide with anything, or be
  hit?

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What to look for during an audit (cont.)

• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Are employees using the required protective
  equipment?
• Are they using the PPE properly?
• If not, why not? Is the PPE inconvenient to
  obtain or hampering the job in some way?

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What to look for during an audit (cont.)

• Tools and equipment
• Are they being used properly?
• Are they in safe condition?
• Are homemade tools (not properly
• designed) being used?
• Procedures
• Are they adequate? Do they prevent all
• unnecessary risks?
• Are they followed?

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What to look for during an audit (cont.)

• Housekeeping
• Is the workplace neat?
• Are things put away properly?

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Safety Audit Checklist

• Safety Audit Checklist
• Handout

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The Safety Audit Form
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The Safety Audit Form
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The Safety Audit Form
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The Safety Audit Form

• Potential Injury Severity

Severe Moderate Minor
Broken bones, dismemberment, fatality Abrasions, cuts, injuries requiring more than first aid First aid
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When Someone is Working Unsafely

• Observe then get the persons attention
• Comment on what the employee was doing safely
• Discuss with the employee
• The possible consequences of the unsafe act
• Safer way to do the job

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When Someone is Working Unsafely (contd)

• Get the employee's agreement to work safely in
  the future
• Discuss other safety issues of the job
• Ask the employee what you the supervisor could do
  to make the employees job safer
• Thank the employee

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Audit Examples
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Audit Examples
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Audit Example
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Audit Examples
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What happens to the safety audit sheets?

• PPD/ESH
• ESHTRK
• Statistics

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Conclusion

• All injuries can be prevented
• Management is responsible for preventing injuries
• Working safely is a condition of employment
• Training employees to work safely is essential
• Prevention of personal injuries is good business
  (and good science!)
• Audits can play a key role in safety
• And, once again

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PPDs Audit Program

• An opportunity to spend a few minutes observing
  activities in the workplace and then discuss what
  youve seen with your employees
• This is done with an eye towards safe, and
  unsafe, behavior
• Mitigate hazards
• Record observations