Occupational Safety and Health

In accordance with occupational safety and health laws, the corporation and its executives bear nearly full responsibility for safety within the organization.
The organization's safety system is designed to advise and assist the corporation and its managers in fulfilling their extensive and diverse legal responsibilities.
Our company is among the industry leaders in providing safety and environmental consulting and inspections. We advise executives and safety teams on how to optimally fulfill their important role in this field.

The core value this service provides to the client lies in several dimensions:

Maximizing the effectiveness of the organization's existing safety system

Minimizing managerial exposure to criminal liability

Advancing the professionalism of the organizational safety system

Raising managerial awareness of their safety responsibilities

Implementing an advanced operational methodology within the organization.

Key topics to be examined in the comprehensive safety survey:

• Existence of a safety system as required by legislation and suited to the organization’s characteristics
• In-depth review of specific components within the organization's safety management program
• Management involvement in safety matters (with emphasis on potential criminal liability exposure)
• Safety in subcontractor employment, including a review at one of their work sites
• Existence and implementation level of safety and hygiene procedures
• Safety-related workflows between different roles within the organization's safety team
• Workplace accidents: their investigation and the effectiveness of lessons learned
•  Monitoring processes for equipment that requires regular inspection
• The organization’s emergency response system and its alignment with the range of risks present
• Employee training (e.g., working at heights, certified workers, risk summaries)
• Presence of required regulatory approvals
• Safety-related practices in job roles and legal compliance
• Evaluation of managers’ exposure to liability in the event of a safety incident
• The survey will include analysis of various safety documents, a site walkthrough, and interviews with employees and managers.

A good safety system is evaluated based on two main criteria: first, its ability to minimize the extent of work-related accidents and occupational illnesses related to employees’ activities within the organization; and second, its ability to handle an investigation or lawsuit following a safety incident and to convincingly demonstrate that the organization took all necessary measures to prevent the event and complied with legal requirements at the time of the accident.

To maintain such a system, we provide our clients with a “surprise inspection” service — our team of experts arrives at the organization unannounced and conducts random safety audits. This process, in which the safety system is unaware of the exact timing of the inspections but is aware that a surprise audit will occur, creates a “positive operational tension” that enhances the attentiveness of the safety framework, improves the safety culture, provides management with an accurate and objective snapshot of the organization's safety status, and increases the organization's chances of successfully handling a civil or criminal lawsuit in the event of an accident.This service is available only to organizations for which we have conducted a safety survey and are therefore well familiar with.

Main areas subject to random review during the surprise inspection include:

• Safety culture and its implementation in the field
• Employee training
• Employment of subcontractors – review of documents and processes
• Random on-site inspection of a work area
• Validity of certifications
• Presence and activity of a company safety officer at the site
• Use of inspected and approved equipment as required
• Fire extinguishing systems
• Readiness of the immediate response team
• Safety representatives – appointment, training, and management
• Safety committees – compliance with legal requirements
• Shift work
• As part of the inspections, various documents will be reviewed, a site tour will be conducted, and employees and managers will be interviewed.

A high-quality Safety Management Plan will maximize your investment in the safety system

Our company has extensive experience in developing Safety Management Plans, built on deep knowledge and years of hands-on work with a wide range of clients — including local authorities, industry, construction, retail, entrepreneurship, high-tech companies, international firms, and more.

As an integral part of creating a comprehensive Safety Management Plan, we review the organization's activities and recommend and draft tailored safety procedures.

Our key advantage, beyond our many years of experience, lies in our ability to shape both the safety management plan and the organization’s safety procedures not only to optimize internal safety processes, but also to reduce legal exposure for the organization’s management and safety systems — thanks to our significant expertise in investigating safety incidents from a criminal liability perspective.

The organization’s safety framework is required to include an emergency response team responsible for acting immediately and effectively in the event of a safety or environmental incident (such as fire, electrocution, hazardous holes, etc.).

The purpose of this team is twofold: first, to save lives, and second, to reduce the scale and impact of the incident on the organization and its surroundings until emergency services arrive.
Beyond assembling this team, it is necessary to analyze and create a database of “scenarios and responses” according to which the team will operate, and to conduct a drill for the team at least once a year.

The safety officer is usually the one who builds the team, conducts the drill, and prepares a performance report.
To ensure an objective evaluation and a management-oriented perspective, we support the safety framework by helping develop a relevant training scenario and serve as an external oversight authority to assess the quality of the team's performance and its alignment with the organization’s real needs.

Main activities carried out as part of the emergency drill oversight include:

• Participation in the drill planning and assessment discussion
• Recommendations on appropriate scenarios to simulate
• Review of the emergency team’s equipment compliance
• Involvement of managers in the field during the drill
• Assessment of coordination with external emergency forces
• Evaluation of response times and their alignment with expectations
• Implementation of lessons learned from previous drills
• Participation in the post-drill debrief and providing professional recommendations.

The organization's management and its safety system are committed to investigating various safety incidents within the organization. The goal is to determine the circumstances that led to the accident, but even more importantly, to enable informed action to learn from the event and prevent similar accidents from occurring in the future.

Our office specializes in developing an internal enforcement program that, on one hand, effectively connects senior management’s need to take action in the field of safety, thereby significantly promoting a strong safety culture within the organization; and on the other hand, substantially minimizes the exposure of managers to liability in safety incidents within the organization.

Our work is based on the Attorney General’s guidelines published in 2019, as well as on our extensive experience in safety management in large and complex settings and in the investigation of workplace accidents.