Organization and Management of Occupational Risk Prevention
5. Implanting the Risk Prevention Plan
5.2.3. Purchasing of products and equipment
In the process followed by the Organisation’s purchasing and infrastructure staff when purchasing products and equipment, the following preventive considerations and the choice of an approved supplier are established as purchasing conditions:
- Preventive considerations: criteria applied in matters of Occupational Risk Prevention when authorising the purchase of a product or equipment.
- Approval of suppliers: a system that the Group applies to select and monitor its suppliers.
5.2.4. Existence of hazardous materials
Due precisely to their qualification as hazardous, everything related to the safe storage of these materials is clearly defined.
As regards information related to the risks that hazardous chemical products present and the preventive and protection measures that must be adopted during their handling, storage and transport, as well as any other pertinent indication that may affect the health or safety of workers, this is all indicated in the corresponding safety data file of the product in question. The content of these files is made known to those affected by means of the usual channels of transmitting information to these workers.
The management of waste considered as hazardous is carried out in accordance with the environmental requirements established by current legislation.
5.2.5. Maintenance of equipment and facilities
The organisation defines the operations that are carried out to maintain its own facilities and working equipment that present some risk to the health and safety of workers.
5.2.6. Carrying out of hazardous tasks
When we talk of hazardous tasks, we are referring to tasks that, for diverse reasons, present risks which are difficult to control or which present serious risks to the health or safety of the workers who carry them out and/or of any worker in the proximity.
The need to carry out tasks of this type is inherent in some of the characteristic activities of the ISASTUR Group: electro-mechanical, mechanical and electrical erection jobs, hanging of overhead electricity lines, civil construction and works, etc.
The identification of hazardous tasks, the drawing up and dissemination of working methods to apply to their carrying out and the systems of authorising staff are described in detail in a chapter of the present Manual devoted exclusively to this issue.
