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      "title": "Self-Inspection Programme",
      "shortDefinition": "A self-inspection programme delegates regular, checklist-based monitoring of fire protection, security and maintenance features to trained facility staff, bridging the periods between formal surveys carried out by external risk engineers.",
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      "body": "## Structure\n\nAn internal control function – often a named safety officer – carries out regular walk-throughs using a standardised checklist covering all of the facility's management programmes: permit systems, housekeeping, escape routes, impairments and maintenance status. Findings are documented and assigned to a responsible person for correction.\n\n## Execution\n\nInspectors are trained in the plant, its protection features and the notification chain; loss and near-miss reports feed into every round. Facilities increasingly use digital checklist apps that support deadlines, photo documentation and escalation.\n\n## Insurance relevance\n\nA documented self-inspection programme does not replace an external risk survey, but extends its effectiveness between visits and is credited by property insurers as evidence of an active loss prevention culture; missing records make a fair risk assessment more difficult."
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      "title": "Selbstinspektionsprogramm (betriebliche Eigenkontrolle)",
      "shortDefinition": "Ein Selbstinspektionsprogramm überträgt geschulten Betriebsangehörigen die regelmässige, checklistenbasierte Eigenkontrolle von Brandschutz-, Sicherheits- und Instandhaltungseinrichtungen zwischen den periodischen Besichtigungen durch externe Risk Engineers.",
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        "Selbstinspektion",
        "Betriebsinterne Sicherheitskontrolle",
        "Self-Inspection"
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        "Sach"
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        "Schadenverhütung"
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      "body": "## Aufbau\n\nEin internes Kontrollorgan – oft eine benannte Sicherheitsbeauftragte oder ein Sicherheitsbeauftragter – führt regelmässige Rundgänge nach standardisierter Checkliste durch, die sämtliche Managementprogramme des Betriebs abdeckt: Freigabeverfahren, Ordnung und Sauberkeit, Fluchtwege, Ausserbetriebnahmen und Instandhaltungsstatus. Auffälligkeiten werden dokumentiert und einer verantwortlichen Person zur Behebung zugewiesen.\n\n## Durchführung\n\nInspizierende Personen werden im Umgang mit der Anlage, den Schutzeinrichtungen und der Meldekette geschult; Schaden- und Beinaheunfallberichte fliessen in jede Runde ein. Ergänzend nutzen Betriebe zunehmend digitale Checklisten-Apps, die Fristen, Fotodokumentation und Eskalation unterstützen.\n\n## Versicherungsrelevanz\n\nEin dokumentiertes Selbstinspektionsprogramm ersetzt keine externe Risikobesichtigung, verlängert aber deren Wirksamkeit zwischen den Terminen und wird von Sachversicherern als Nachweis gelebter Schadenverhütung honoriert; fehlende Aufzeichnungen erschweren die Risikobewertung."
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