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Safety inspections

John Gilbertson | Feature | HSW
01.05.2005


Let US put the story straight. Inspections will never be a safety improvement tool. The very nature of the process presupposes that things are (or were) correct in the first place. You see, a safety inspection is a "retrospective" examination of the workplace, the purpose of which ...

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