Safety Audit Execution

It is appropriate if the company s management calls upon every director and other employees to actively cooperate, even before the auditing activities begin. A safety audit cannot be a concealed activity. Only an informed employee can comprehend the importance and advantages of the audit. 

it is necessary to execute an examination of the business. Auditors gain knowledge about specific parts of the material flow, about technical devices, and the share of the human factor in individual parts of manufacturing technologies. Questionnaires prepared beforehand are the basic tool to lead specialized interviews. Their aim is to recognize strengths and weaknesses of the company. Auditors must observe these rules to fulfill tasks that result from applying questionnaires  

Choose a period of intense working time when questionnaires are to be filled in  

Respond to every notice related to issues of occupational health and safety Confirm information by facts Monitor working procedures Attanpt to objectify information Prevent criticism 

Have time to lead specialized discussions Consider anployee behaviour 

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U.K. Health and Safety Executive (1986a), Safety Audit of BNFL Sellafield 1986 Volume I, London, HMSO. 

Hauliers Safety Audit booklet. Chemical Industries Association, London (1986) Health and Safety Executive, Guidance Booklet No. HS(G)40, Chlorine from drums and cylinders, HMSO, London (1987)... 

Communication An auditor will need to be able to commnnicate constructively with individuals at all levels within the school system, including faculty, staff, contractors, and school executive leadership. This will require a high level of interpersonal communication skills. An auditor who appears condescending or weak in communication can have an adverse impact on the success of a school safety auditing program. 

The purpose of safety audits must be instiUed in all management, from the front-line supervisors to the chief executive officer. Every person in the company must make a commitment to safety auditing. Auditing should also become a part of performance evaluations for hourly and supervisory personnel. 

Provided that a company s management decides to execute a safety audit, it is necessary to execute an important decision Who will be the auditor or who is suitable to... 

It is necessary to engage an auditing staff if the tasks of the safety audit are too complex and vague, and actions must be executed in a specified period of time. This staff inclndes experts from various areas, although there should not be more than five people working on it. 

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. 

According to the type and area of execution, safety audits are classified as follows ... 

An engineering audit is executed by specialized engineers, directors, and safety technicians, usually as members of an audit group or individually. The following areas are recommended for engineering audit execution ... 

Manners of managing a business by its superordinates, risk management organization (management system), and effectiveness of occupational health and safety activities are analyzed within the production management audit. Execution of this audit usually happens either regularly (e.g. once every five years) or due to unexpected circumstances (e.g. a sudden increase of accidents at one workplace). 

Leadership/Culture - EHS management systems and best practices performance metrics risk assessment audits supervisor safety selling executives. 

Audits are an important part of safety and loss prevention. Ideally, they are educational for the plant being audited. In addition, well-planned and well-executed audits will detect deficiencies in the program and point out situations where performance deviates from accepted standards. 

California section of IFT, Dr. Bidlack has served as councilor, chairman of the scholarship committee, program chairman, and chairman of the section (1988-1989). He has also served as regional communicator for IFT in Southern California. Dr. Bidlack was elected a fellow of IFT in June 1998 and elected as counselor representative to the Executive Committee (2000-2003). He served on the finance committee (2003-2006) and as the chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee (2004-2007). Currently, he chairs the Audit Committee (2006-2009) and is chair of the committee on making food safety decisions when the science is incomplete. ... 

At this stage a legal compliance audit was conducted and the findings and report were submitted to the CEO. Nonconformances were tabled at the first executive safety meeting, and action plans were made to comply with local safety and health laws. 

Every day for 2 weeks I put students through the 1-day classes. Then I took them on an inspection of the workplace, after which we returned to the classroom to execute a mini audit of what we had seen and evaluate it against acceptable standards. They were flabbergasted by what they saw. They learned about structured safety systems and what physical work conditions should look like, and how management safety controls drive the safety system. 

Our initial round of interviews in the U.K. nuclear power industry was conducted in July 1999 with the British nuclear safety authorities— the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (Nil)— and the private nuclear generating company in England (British Energy). A second round of interviews was conducted in January 2000 to follow up on open issues. Additional background information was obtained from discussions with trade union representatives and a local U.K. trade press correspondent. The U.K. interviewees were given considerable latitude to describe the process and impacts of industry restructuring in their own terms, in part because a sensitive audit was still pre-decisional at the time of the interviews. 

Safety and health professionals should also recognize that the time spent by auditors, the impressions they create, and the time expenditures required of personnel at the location being audited are also under evaluation. Speculate on the nature of the negative comments made upward to executive management for this situation, which actually occurred. 

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