The purpose of performing a safety audit is to determine compliance with Health and Safety obligations relating to workplace and employee safety. You should conduct an internal safety audit at least once a year to help you to improve your processes over time and to identify areas that need more work.
This course looks at creating a team, determining the scope of the audit, collecting the information, writing the report and selecting the best remedial actions for non-compliances.
Learning Outcomes:
At the completion of this course learners will:
- Learn what to ask before conducting a safety audit.
- Understand the importance of codes of practice, guidance material, information from manufacturers and suppliers of plant, substances and equipment.
- Understand the need to review policies and procedures.
- Understand the importance of reviewing employee training.
- Understand the need to review compliance activities and maintenance schedules.
- Learn how often to conduct a safety audit.
- Learn the 3 steps to conducting a safety audit: scope, audit questions and data collection, reporting and suggesting corrective actions.
- Learn what an audit report should include.
- Learn what should be included in a Corrective Action Plan.
Course length: 10 mins (7-minute animated and subtitled video + 5 short answer assessment)
- Certificate of completion
- In-depth Reporting
- Facilitator’s Guide including video transcript and Assessment Q&A’s
- Optional pass rate
- All content can be customised
- Pause and resume function
Available in English and French.