Auditind in Terms of OHS of Critical Energy Infrastructures from Romanian Power System

Abstract

The purpose of the conformity assessment is a direct one, namely checking the degree of knowledge and conformity with legal and other provisions at workplace or organization level and an indirect one of assessing the effectiveness of the OHS management system at work. To ensure energy, economic, and societal security, the government must ensure that all home, industrial, and crucial customers have access to electricity, which is provided through critical power facilities. As a result, power substations become important national and European objectives, and the role of OHS (human resources and secure workplaces in an ergonomic and healthy working environment) on them becomes a vital goal for ensuring the smooth operation of the national economy. In the current situation, and in many unfortunate cases, OHS activity is subordinated to production or service activity, and OHS risk assessments and audits are also formally conducted by non-specialized personnel, resulting in undesirable events with an unstable effect, and the need for assessment (auditing) in accordance with legal and other provisions is intended to verify compliance with OHS rules and principles and to limit or prevent work accidents. This paper addresses the verification of OHS, by "INCDPM Bucharest method" - Assessment of conformity with legal and other provisions (auditing)" - to an European critical infrastructure (power substation), for the purpose of verifying knowledge and conformity with legal and other provisions at the workplace level and assessing the efficiency or failure of the OHS management system of the analyzed economic entity management, and after implementation it will serve as a tool to verify the functioning of the system. The assessment (audit) performed is part of the initial analysis prior to the development and implementation of an OHS management system with the goal of assisting management decisions, and it is also used after implementation as a tool to verify the management system's operation in order to determine the decisions required to ensure the system's continuous improvement.