OSHA Safety Audits

Third party safety audits make it easy to achieve full compliance with applicable federal and state safety and health regulations. Increasingly, KPA's clients consider safety audits as critical to augment their loss control services. Third party safety audits range from basic audits to quarterly visits by professionally trained safety engineers. An easy way to get started is to request a Facility Compliance Evaluation. During KPA’s Facility Compliance Evaluation, you can expect a KPA Safety Engineer to be on site for about 90 minutes. Our trained experts will determine your compliance status with respect to OSHA, EPA, DOT, and other regulations. Using a handheld device and extensive checking lists, our experts will identify, classify, and photograph facility and employee issues to ensure timely hazard correction.

To hear real stories of OSHA safety audits from the field, watch our free recorded webinar:
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: OSHA Stories from the Field.

Reducing works’ comp with safety audits

compliance-audit If you're like most employers, you're concerned about the rising costs of employee benefits. And few costs are increasing as rapidly as those for workers' comp insurance. Insurance experts will tell you the most important first step you have to take is to identify and address the riskiest areas of your operations. Increasing workplace safety and getting workers back on the job sooner can help curb your company's workers' comp costs.

Safety audits can lower your insurance premiums by lowering your workers’ comp mod (also called the experience rating factor, ex-mod, or x-mod). Reducing the number of accidents in your workplace will directly affect your expenses for replacement labor while reducing your risk of getting hit with higher insurance rates as a result of poor workplace conditions.

KPA’s experts will help you to analyze and manage the workers compensation mod. While employers commonly realize a lower mod is somehow a good thing, many don't make the connection between this number and their premium costs.

By working with your risk management insurance carrier, you can implement both pre- and post-claims programs that will reduce your workers' compensation costs overall. Besides implementing procedures that make your business a more desirable client in terms of insurance rates, you can save even more on your risk management costs by implementing the following practices:

Top reasons to do Safety Audits

Meet insurance company requirements
Lower workers' comp insurance (worker’s compensation insurance)
Reduce number of accidents
Increase productivity
Federal and State safety rules
Meet OSHA regulations to avoid citations and fines
Employee wellbeing concerns
Employee retention
Peace of mind