The Corporate Audit of Health and Safety Management is a high-level audit, which has been designed to identify a client's current position in terms of compliance with health and safety legislation. The objective of the audit is to compare your current arrangements for health and safety management with recognised standards. This in turn will assist you in deciding whether action needs to be taken to ensure it complies with relevant health and safety law.

 

The Corporate Audit will contribute to your compliance strategy going forward, which in turn will assist you in providing a safe working environment, ensuring reduced exposure to criminal prosecution and civil claims, and reduced administration costs associated with legislative compliance.  The Corporate Audit comprises the following three stages:

This involves assessing the significant health and safety documentation currently held by you e.g. health and safety policy, risk assessments, systems of work/work practices, Training programme and records etc. Each of these documents would be evaluated and the significant strengths and weaknesses identified. These initial results would then be fed into question sets for verification interviews.

We would interview personnel with key health and safety responsibilities, with the objective being to verify the information gained from the documentation checks.

We would carry out visits to all sites in order to verify the information gained from documentation checks and key interviews. These visits would involve further interviews, documentation checks and physical inspection as necessary.

 

The outcome of the audit process would be a report containing the key findings from the audit, along with a Health and Safety Action Plan. The report would be in a positive format, giving credit where arrangements are effective, while highlighting areas for improvement.
 
The audit report would be structured as follows:

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