Audit Brief

Clients requiring Road Safety Audits are responsible for producing a Road Safety Audit brief. Requests for Road Safety Audits sometimes come from clients who are unfamiliar with the process. TMS Consultancy routinely sends out a checklist (shown below) indicating what is required to complete a Road Safety Audit. 

Audit Brief (reasons for project, background information, any departures from standard)... 

Some clients (such as the Highways Agency) require a draft report to be provided so that they can check that the report has stayed within the Audit Brief. 

The safety problem affected part of the scheme that was considered to be outside the Road Safety Audit brief. 

HD 19/15 describes the requirements for a Road Safety Audit Brief on trunk road and motorway schemes, and a typical brief is included in an Annex E. It should be noted that the brief should identify whether the site should be visited at a particular time of day (peak hours, or school start or finish times). If the Road Safety Audit Team considers that more information is required, the Team Leader can request such information. 

Standard forms and examples are provided in the guide, including checklists, a Road Safety Audit Brief, a Road Safety Audit report, an exception report, a monitoring report and an evaluation report. The evaluation report on the Road Safety Audit awards marks for the quality of the safety comments, and for the administration of the process. 

Step 2.1 R ne the Initial Checklist. Table 1 is a checklist of unit operations. Apply this as an initial guide and checklist that can be used to identify each unit operation within the unit process that the audit will focus on. You may have to make additions to the list, because it is meant to be a general overview. Next to each unit operation that applies to the unit process of interest, provide a brief description of its function or purpose. This will prove useful in developing a process flow scheme in Step 3. Much of this sub-step can be accomplished by... 

The audit team found that at Sites B and H, safety and health personnel had suflfieient authority in most eases to thoroughly implement the safety and health plans. To faeilitate safety and health eom-plianee, anyone who entered Site H, ineluding delivery personnel, was required to view a brief video that summarized the site history and remediation operations, identified the hazardous substanees monitored on site, and deseribed site evaeuation proeedures. Site B s SSAHP did not mention speeifie subeontraetors and their roles and responsibilities however, it did indieate that the prime eontraetor had oversight responsibility for all safety and health aetivities and the authority to diseontinue or modify site operations when unsafe eonditions were deteeted. 

In brief, the auditor has to be qualified by lATF to perform the audits and, to be eligible for qualification, the auditor has to be sponsored by an lATF-approved certification body that is subject to witness audits performed by qualified auditors from vehicle manufacturers. Such measures will inevitably improve the quality of certification offered by certification bodies and will be good for the global automotive industry. 

On completion of an audit and before the auditors leave the premises, the management of the site will be briefed as regards the main observations during the audit. Where issues arise, FDA inspectors use Form 483 to present the manufacturer with a list items that may be deemed as non-compliant with the regulations. Should any non-conformances be highlighted at the audit close-out session, management should state their commitment to correcting these and, if possible, indicate what the... 

Preparation In preparing for an audit, all data and documentation for the study are assembled for the inspectors to view (Figure 8.3). The study director, or other designated technical contact, should review the files and prepare to answer any questions. The master schedule and all files assembled by the quality assurance unit should be reviewed. An agenda, a work space, and a test facility floor plan should be prepared for the inspectors. The staff should be fully briefed and prepared for the visit. 

The belief in some quarters that patients have proprietary rights over their samples and any information generated therefrom, and that even anonymised data should not be divulged without permission may cause difficulties even for routine services with no overt research brief, putting interlaboratory audits and external quality assessment schemes at risk. 

The supplier may require a briefing in the proposed audit process objectives and scope. The audit is then conducted and a report is prepared by the pharmaceutical or healthcare company concerned. The supplier should be given a chance to review and comment on the report so that any factual errors may be corrected, vendor comments added, or other necessary clarifications can be made at an early stage. Any corrective actions undertaken by the supplier should be followed up, and therefore the audit process may loop back by the arrangement of a follow-up visit. 

Prepare personnel to receive audit, possibly including training in how to interface with inspectors for those who are unfamiliar with inspection requirements. Notify site of inspection so that general preparations can be put in place. A site briefing may be appropriate. 

The following is a brief introduction to the emerging audit alliance called EurepGAP. Even though SAMSN identified EurepGAP as a powerful force in New Zealand, the origins and control of EurepGAP are European. 

In contrast to these reports of increased anticoagulation, a very brief report states that in an audit of an anticoagulant clinic, 5 patients who had taken amoxicillin had an unspecified decrease in prothrombin time. ... 

The acceptance process outlined above has ensured that the work delivered by I C Energo is consistent, complete and from a brief review is technically acceptable. The acceptance process did not provide a full and detailed confirmation of the correctness of the work as this would require much of the analysis to be repeated by a TAG engineer. However, to provide added assurance that I C Energo are providing work at the required standard a sample audit was undertaken of delivered analyses. 

The contact nominee should be periodically briefed during the audit of the findings identified, thereby avoiding surprises at the end of the audit. 

It is often necessary to brief those people in the company that is being audited on how to work with the auditors. Items to be considered include ... 

Healthy newborn human infants are endowed with a highly sensitive sense of smell. Moreover, there are documented accounts of olfactory learning during the early postpartum period. In the present chapter, we present a brief overview of the relevant research literature and suggest tentatively that olfactory learning may be facilitated by neurochemical activities associated with labor and delivery, and memory traces of odors learned shortly after birth may be retained more efficiently than early postnatal memories involving other sensory modalities (i.e., vision and audition). 

Review and emphasize the ground rules. It is vital that both the auditor and the site personnel understand the audit ground rules. This is accomplished at the in-briefing. At that time discussion of schedule, the interview process, records to be reviewed, and finding takes place. 

Information on audits of authorities (brief history and current inspection status, accreditations, and certifications)... 

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