The Marathon Refining Safety group developed the Field Audit Scoring Tool (FAST) that allows for quicker trend analysis and more timely notifications to the field to help avoid potential safety issues.
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Our employees can use FAST to complete four types of safety assessments: a life critical audit, joint jobsite visit, job safety analysis and general safety audit. Examples of assessment observations could include hoses and cords that create tripping hazards; wearing inadequate personal protective equipment for existing conditions; working at heights without being properly secured to prevent a fall and a lack of communication among workers executing a particular task.
'The tool was designed so that anyone with a smartphone or other smart device can complete an audit in under five minutes, which can yield tons of data,' said Marathon Advanced HES Professional
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'We had an audit program in place before FAST, but it required a lot of work to input the data,' Mandan Safety Supervisor
Scheetz also noted how FAST's trending and analytical capabilities made it possible to distribute daily safety bulletins that were customized to highlight specific issues found through each day's audits. These updates were emailed to
'If we saw bad trends starting to develop, then we were able to get communication out to all personnel and track the trends to see if our messages were successful,' said Mandan HES Professional
FAST debuted in
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