Basic Activities within Safety Audit

An essential element of a safety audit is the examination of a business or its individual parts. It is necessary to broaden the examinations to a complete safety audit if the knowledge gained during these examinations is insufficient, that is, information is not detailed and complete. The following points sum up the core of examination activities, which compare the actual conditions with the required conditions subject to laws, provisious, and directives  

Auditors and audit groups investigate whether a business or any of its organizational parts meets the requirements of occupational health and safety, and in case of technical devices, the reliability criteria as well. 

The company s management might make the business safer, minimize risks, and hence be economically more successful, but only if they become familiar with such tasks and convince their employees about the importance of the success of every activity in occupational health and safety. 

Audit execution is conditioned by the reason and goal that is set forth to be reached. Auditing activities are carried out as follows  

They are announced to operators in advance or unannounced. They are done regularly according to set deadlines or irregularly. They are systematic or random. 

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