Integrated safety plan
environmental health and safety
Promoting a culture of safety.
The Integrated Safety Plan (ISP) is the safety program developed to provide a mechanism to cooperate with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) officer. The ISP assists in the communication of environmental health and safety issues across the organization and calls for unit-level safety committees and individual self-audits. It also provides indemnification from regulatory fines for units with a certified safety program. Our department acts as an agent of the OSHA compliance officer to certify a safety program.
An certified safety program must have the following elements:
- Regular safety committee meetings
- Means of communicating safety issues to the department in a timely manner
- Upper administrative support for safety
- Self-audits for all areas (e.g., laboratories, shops, offices, storage and common areas)
- Abatement of deficiencies found during the self-audits
- An annual safety program audit by Environmental Health and Safety within six months after the self-audit dates
- Recommendation for ISP certification renewal from Environmental Health and Safety
Goals and Purpose
The expectation of safety.
Safety committees should meet regularly to provide an opportunity for self-evaluation as well as time to discuss emerging safety issues and accident trends. Environmental Health and Safety staff are available to help facilitate these meetings if needed. We will also assist with the hazard assessment, review the Integrated Safety Plan Self-Audit Checklists, monitor regulatory compliance, and provide other services.
Measures used to determine success are based on criteria that include the formation or expansion of a departmental safety committee that consistently communicates environmental health and safety information in a timely fashion. Here are the desired outcomes of the ISP:
- Integrate environmental health and safety into Purdue's learning, discovery, and engagement mission
- Promote individual accountability for safety and regulatory compliance
- Ensure that a proactive system is in place to address environmental health and safety issues
- Improve the level and consistency of regulatory compliance
- Reduce employee injury rates through timely and effective communication and training
Evaluation
For continuing improvement.
Environmental Health and Safety will evaluate the ISP process and results on a continuing basis, making adjustments as needed. During evaluation, we can do the following:
- Use the feedback received from departments, shared information, and accident and injury statistics as a measure of the success in achieving the desired outcomes of the ISP
- Work with departments to develop criteria that best meet the shared goals of university compliance and departmental needs
- Review the requirements of the ISP
- Assist in developing or expanding your safety committee
