Safety Audit Evaluation

An auditing questionnaire must take into account the company s actual condition. This condition is then compared to one that is in compliance with legislative enactments in a given society at a certain period of time. 

It is necessary to exactly formulate the differences and then draft measures for their minimization or elimination. These conclusions must be dealt with by responsible directors. If the company s management associates themselves with the auditor s conclusions and recommendations, that is the most favourable situation. 

Results of the safety audit can be summarized into points that are included in the activities within risk management. 

A check of executed safety audit provisions is carried out during the evaluation of results. A plan to execute recommendations is carried out after the audit s conclusions are released. If the recommendation cannot be executed or it is amended, it is necessary to provide the reasons that led to such a situation. 

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Collecting the correct information to monitor and understand performance of the process safety management system, and its separate elements, can provide an unbiased and comprehensive view of system performance. This will alert the appropriate personnel to weaknesses in the process safety system. A companywide versus a site-specific approach to process safety auditing, evaluation, and improvement not only deals with better prioritization of identified improvement work but potentially provides better auditing and evaluation against those conditions that one site may accept as normal/acceptable over time. 

CFR 385 Appendix A — Explanation of Safety Audit Evaluation Criteria... 

CFR 385, Appendix A — Explanation of safety audit evaluation criteria. 

Subpart H—Special Rules for New Entrant Non-North America-Domiciled Carriers Appendix to Subpart H of Part 385—Explanation of Pre-Authorization Safety Audit Evaluation Criteria for Non-North America-Domiciled Motor Carriers Subpart I—Safety Monitoring System for Non-North America-Domiciled Carriers Subpart J—Reserved... 

Appendix A to Part 385—Explanation of Safety Audit Evaluation Criteria Appendix B to Part 385—Explanation of Safety Rating Process... 

Appendix to Subpart H of Part 385—Explanation of Pre-Authorization Safety Audit Evaluation Criteria tor Non-North America-Domiciled Motor Carriers... 

Chlorine Institute. Members of the Chlorine Institute are required to reaffirm their commitment to the Institute s safety pledge, including prevention of chlorine releases. The safety pledge also includes aimual safety audits, aimual emission and ha2ard evaluations of chlorine operations, periodic emergency-response test drills, and coordination with local officials for protection of the community (32) (see Alkali AND CHLORINE PRODUCTS). 

At the end of tlie Safety Revievv/Safety Audit, recommendations are made for specific actions that are needed with justifications, recommended responsibilities, and completion dates, A follow-up evaluation or re-inspection should be phmncd to verify the acceptability of the corrective action. 

In negotiating to purchase raw materials, BASF uses a safety matrix to evaluate the dangers posed by their physical and chemical properties. Suppliers are also subject to environmental and safety audits by BASF employees to minimize pollution and to assure their use of safety standards are in accordance with Responsible Care. The company s environmental criteria are supplemented with minimum social standards that suppliers are expected to meet, including the prohibition of child labor and the use of forced or bonded workers. 

As a new branch of audit, what is a safety audit has not been determined yet. Considering all aspects of the comprehensive point of view, the authors think that, the safety audit is that audit institutions and their staff used, according to the laws, regulations and policy provisions of the state of production safety responsibility fulfillment situation evaluation or verification to promote coal enterprises earnestly implement production safety... 

Compared with the developed countries, there is still a big gap of production safety guarantee mechanism between China and other developed countries. One of the reasons is that Safety agency did not play a necessary role. The application of intermediary institutions for evaluation, certification and identification of occupational safety and health, is an important means of national production safety supervision work and this method has been a practice in many developed countries. As the number of safety agency and their management level continue to increase, safety agencies promote safety production standard. Safety auditing theories contribute to the development of intermediary organizations of safety audit activities and help them expand their business scope. 

As safety audit is an independent audit activity for safe production supervision and evaluation, it helps enterprises to comply with safety laws and regulations. Besides, it helps enterprises to enforce safety facility realize the three simultaneous . What s more, safety audit helps related departments to It helps to supervise production accidents compensation in place in time. It contributes urge enterprises to secure investment in a timely manner and in full, etc. Thus safety audit ensures production safety situation improved fundamentally. 

Safety auditors should collect the following safety facilities and non-fmancial information related to the project (1) the written request for the project construction units (2) safety preassessment report (3) safety specific report and relevant documentation about project preliminary design (4) written approval of preliminary design safety fadhties of construction projects (5) the project completion report and related construction drawings (6) the safety assessment report (7) safety faciUties construction project completion and acceptance approval letter (8) technicd indicator information apphes to the audited entity s safety faciUties three simultaneous . Safety facilities "three simultaneous" can be audited by audit, supervision, observation, inquiry, confirmation, calculation, analysis and review and other conventional methods of audit. Due to the comprehensive and technology of safety audit project, safety auditors should also use cost-benefit analysis and economic evaluation of safety and other methods. 

Safety audit as a special supervision and evaluation of the enterprise safety in production of the independent auditing activities, actively and effectively carry out mine safety audit work, to play the role of audit supervision and inspection, contribute to the promotion of mines to implement the main responsibility for production safety, serious implementation of the laws and regulations of production safety, ensure the safety of the necessary inputs production, the implementation of various safety measures, improve the conditions for safety production. 

Safety audits must meet this definition to be effective A safety audit is a stractured approach to provide a detailed evaluation of safety effectiveness, a diagnosis of safety problems, a description of where and when to expect trouble, and guidelines concerning what should be done about the problems. 

Safety auditing, as we will develop it in this work, is a structured and detailed approach to reducing and controlling the seriousness of accidents. And, safety auditing is a method whereby management can receive a continuing evaluation of its safety effectiveness [p. xiii]. 

The safety audit is a review by the FMCSA of the carrier s written procedures and records to validate the accuracy of information and certifications provided in the application and determine whether the carrier has established or exercised the basic safety management controls necessary to ensure safe operations. The FMCSA will evaluate the results of the safety audit using the criteria in Part 365, Subpart E, Appendix A. 

A safety audit wiU be conducted on the new entrant, once it has been in operation for enough time to have sufficient records to allow FMCSA to evaluate the adequacy of its basic safety management controls. Generally, this period is at least 3 months. 

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