Health and Safety Audits
Auditing is a tool more commonly used across disciplines within industries. Our audit is designed to give you a snapshot of where a business currently stands and direction on where where it needs to go in the future, allowing for detailed resource planning.
HSMC health and safety audits are comprised of two parts:
- A compliance check to verify performance against applicable legislative standards for the business.
- A procedural check to see that what is stated as policy is actually happening on the ground.
A typical routine therefore is to commence the audit with a Q&A session covering all the major legislative areas and this is then followed up by a tour of the site. During this, jobs are observed and specific parts highlighted for later follow-up in the 3rd part of the audit - a documentation review. E.g. is a risk assessment in place for a sample of the jobs observed, what is the training records for specific individuals noted, etc.
Health and Safety Audit Outome
The audit gives you a report which is in effect a stafe-of-play of where you are now.
It gives you a series of recommended improvement actions which are ranked in order of improtance. This ranking is key as the employer needs some sort of prioritisation for the improvement works arsing from the audit, just as they would for risk assessments - its no good trying to do everything at once.
The audit allows the employer to plan an improvement path over the longer term, setting out actions for the current year up to say five years down the line.
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