Health and Safety Auditing
Health & Safety Audits are a vital tool for successful safety management. They enable organisations to maintain and improve risk management. Audits demonstrate you are achieving your objectives and you have a reliable and effective policy, organisation and systems in place.
What does an Audit do?
- It provides a systematic evaluation of your organisation.
- It measures health & safety performance.
- It will provide a snapshot of the organisation's performance with prioritised recommendations.
- It acts as an external audit providing an objective review.
- It shows whether you are compliant with external management standards such as: OHSAS 18001, BS 8800, HSG 65
What do we do?
- A site visit to interview senior staff and other members of the workforce if necessary, observe working conditions and practices
- Examine existing arrangements: organisation, policies, procedures
- Examine records and assessments
- Discuss findings and agree possible actions
What benefits do you get?
- Dedicated Consultant & Admin Manager with an agreed project plan
- A user-friendly, unbiased report with a prioritised action plan and recommendations to address non-conformances which is independently peer reviewed & sent to you in draft for comment.
- The assurance that the audit is carried out under ISO 9001 procedures.
- Feedback presentation to senior management on findings and actions (optional)
- Peace of mind that you are compliant with legislation
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| A comment from the Facilities Manager of the Healthcare Commission on an audit Connaught carried out for them. |
| "The benefits gained from consultancy have strengthened arrangements, better organisation and management of Health & Safety, achieving both team and individual performance targets, and an improved culture. The follow up support from Connaught Consultant, Chris Horn, who carried out the audit, was exemplary." |