Health and safety audit

Health and safety audit can ensure compliance with all current legislation related to health and safety at work. It is normally a critical, in-depth examination of an organisation's health and safety management system. The audit can cover the whole system or particular aspects, such as risk assessment procedures, issue and control of personal protective equipment etc.

The audit is carried out normally on an annual basis and provides an organisation with a clear picture of their performance in terms of health and safety management. As a result, remedial actions can be taken before incidents occur. Safety inspections are a less formal method of investigating the health and safety performance of an organisation. But this audit will highlight all positive and negative aspects of health and safety at the work place.

Our Health & SafetySmart aims at providing you with professional health and safety audit services that are available for the companies, which require an extra set of 'eyes and ears'. To assist with this process, our programme offers a wide and impressive range of consultancy services. We also offer you professional support for specific health and safety projects and other development requirements of your company.

Health and safety smart offers:

· To ensure compliance with all relevant legislation.
· To undertake suitable, sufficient and comprehensive health and safety audit of all departments within an organization.
· To monitor the application of health and safety policies and procedures.
· To identify and implement reasonably practicable control measures in order to control workplace risks.

Health and safety smart can provide help with:

· Health and safety audit
· Health and safety review
· Accident analysis
· In-house monitoring and audit systems
· Preparation of health and safety documentation, including manuals and codes of practice
· Temporary health and safety staff on secondment
· Response to prohibition and improvement notices
· Design of training materials

Health and safety smart offers a successful programme that enables you to derive various benefits including:

· Independent, impartial health and safety audit of your systems.
· Checking of your procedures for completeness.
· Gives you a better understanding of your system.
· Better understanding of your suppliers.
· Ensure compliance with the relevant standards and legislation.

Regular health and safety audits undertaken by a company help it to identify, monitor and eradicate any potential health and safety risks associated with unsuitable equipment and procedures, and the environment associated with the workstation. The departments should ensure strict adherence to a regular programme, which aim to monitor and maintain safe equipment and a healthy working environment.

The audit of your business and premises carried out by this programme offers a detailed and penetrating approach looking at key areas of health and safety management. The completed audit thus presented is fully documented, with recommendations and proposals to improve on the company position.

The health and safety audit services should be used in the way best suited to your company's organisation and activity. For some larger companies most sections of the health and safety act will be relevant, but for the majority, especially the smaller companies, it will be necessary to be selective.

In larger companies it is likely that it will be necessary to divide up responsibility for different sections between different managers. In larger companies it may be useful to seek outside assistance in applying or managing the health and safety audit.

• Health and safety at work
  Health and Safety at work law imposes a responsibility on the employer to ensure safety at the workplace for all employees.
  
  
• Health and safety audit
  Health and Safety Audit undertaken by a company helps it to identify, monitor and reduce any potential risks associated with unsuitable equipment and procedures.
  
  
• Health and safety legislation
  Health and safety legislation is aimed at safety in the workplace including consumer safety in the service area.
  
  
• Health and safety regulations
  Health and safety regulations, failure to comply with these regulations could lead to prosecution or the closure of your business.
  
  
• Health and safety information
  Health and safety information is a mandatory aspect of legislation which requires employees to ensure health and safety in the workplace.
  
  
• Accident reporting
  Accident reporting is mandatory under the RIDDOR act 1995 for most companies this is a rare act but knowing the law and following it, pays.
  
  
• COSHH - Control of substances hazardous to health
  COSHH stands for the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health and is about gathering information on all products.
  
  
• RIDDOR
  RIDDOR stands for the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995.