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You’ve got your safety audit coming up – See our top 3 tips for being ready:
1.Documents
Get your documents prepared and ready for review. Make sure they are easy to access, shown to be well organised and as up to date as required.
Documents required may include:
- Health & Safety policies and procedures
- Accident and incednet reports/ books
- Risk Assessment records
- Employee training logs including certification
- Used safety procedures and checklists
- Equipment maintenance records
- Any past incident reports and outcomes
- Any prior audit reports, outcomes and action plans
2.Conduct a Self-Audit
Before the official audit, conduct your own internal self audit:
- Use historic audits to guide your checks
- Ensure all safety equipment is where it should be in working order
- Perform a walkthrough of your site as an auditor would to note visable issues
- Review your safety management system
3.Prepare and Engage Employees
Preparation and engagement of your staff around the importance of a safety audit will undoubtably work favourably towards a successful audit outcome
- Communicate the purpose and importance of the audit with them. Encourage them to put forward safety issues they see.
- Train them constructively on how to interact with an auditor if required and how to present safety documentation or show safety procedures they follow.
Audits aren’t done to catch companies out, they can be a great way to show how effective and reliable your workplace safety management system is.
Anything that makes the auditors life easier to access the information will help their evaluation process and make a smoother audit experience.
By preparing and engaging employees in the process beforehand, It’ll help to form a culture of safety first practices in your company as you identify and rectify compliance issues as a team
