Proprietary audit systems

Leadership and administration Management training Planned inspections Task analysis and procedures Accident/incident investigation Task observation Emergency preparedness Organisational rules Accident/incident analysis Employee training 

Programme evaluation system Engineering controls Personal communication Group meetings General (safety) promotion Hiring and placement Purchasing controls Off-the-job safety 

Similar proprietary systems are available from other organisations such as the Brihsh Safety Council who offer a 5-star audit system. The scope of the proprietary systems has been developed after considerable experience in many businesses and cultures. They capture all of the key components for achieving superior safety performance. If an enterprise chooses an internally developed self-assessment route, then keeping a 

Computer-based systems such as CHASE can provide preloaded audit questionnaires or blank formats into which the organisation s own audit queshons can be written. The benefits of writing the audit queshons within the organisation is that it will reflect the culture and jargon of the workplace, but the process of setting it up can be time consuming. 

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General aspects of loss confrol are discussed in section 2.2.4. Loss control profiling is one of the major evaluation and control techniques associated with loss control management. The technique of profiling has formed the basis for a number of proprietary auditing systems such as International Safety Rating System (ISRS), Complete Health and Safety Evaluation (CHASE) and Coursafe. 

The security within an application may be a combination of application system security and the standard security features provided by a proprietary operating system. Care should be taken to ensure that the ERES audit trail required by an application is created to track any work undertaken in this area, especially the activities that may be performed by a system or database administrator without using the front end Graphical User Interface (GUI) of the system. 

To achieve the best results, auditors should be competent people who are independent of the area and of the activities being audited. External consultants can be used or staff from other areas of the organization. An organization can use its own auditing system or one of the proprietary systems on the market or, since it is unlikely that any ready made system will provide a perfect fit, a combination of both. With any scheme, cost and benefits have to be taken into account. Common problems include ... 

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