Health and Safety Audits for the Workplace
Health and Safety Audits for your Workplace
As the owner of a business, can you say without a doubt that you are keeping your employees safe and that you are confident your health and safety procedures and processes are fully compliant?
The optimum phrase in the above sentence is “without a doubt”. If you cannot be certain that you are protecting yourself, your employees and the public, then your business could benefit from a health and safety audit.
An audit is an assessment by a qualified auditor of your business’s policies, procedures and systems. It will cover a range of areas including:
- H&S Policies
- Risk Assessments
- Training
- Communications
- Accident reporting
- Records
Health and Safety Audit Options
No two businesses are the same and that’s why our audit services are flexible and tailored to our clients. We can offer three different types of audit depending on your needs.
Gap Analysis Audit
A one-off, fixed-price audit and overview of your health and safety. A Gap Analysis Audit gives you a fresh set of eyes on your policies and systems with a report of findings that you can action internally without any on-going commitment to work with us.
However, should you require support then we can provide flexible options for you either on a project or retained basis.
Detailed Audit
Typically for larger or higher risk businesses, our full audit service gives you complete peace of mind with a detailed audit of your health and safety plus ongoing support, helping you to implement changes and providing training as appropriate.
We can support your in-house H&S team if you have one, or alternatively you can outsource all or some activity to our team.
Embedding a Safety Culture
For larger organisations we can help beyond the simple audit by supporting your senior team to manage and embed a Safety Culture across your entire business structure.
We do this by utilising the Safe365 cloud-based platform. This is a comprehensive digital tool, which helps managers to audit, monitor, maintain and improve every aspect of health and safety.
What are the Benefits of having an Audit?
Ensuring that your business is legally compliant with health and safety legislation is only part of why we feel it’s important to regularly audit and assess your health and safety systems.
At Sureteam we believe in embedding a culture of safety into an organisation, so it’s less about box ticking or being legally obliged to do something, and more about doing the right thing by your people, taking appropriate care and action dependent on the needs and risks of your business environment.
Here are just some of the benefits of a health and safety audit:
Be Legally Compliant
Keep Staff, Customers, Public Safe
Employees Feel Looked-After & Increases Morale
Prevent Accidents
Reduce Risk of Litigation
Ongoing Improvement & Assessment of H&S
Embed a Culture of Safety
Enhance the Business' Reputation
What Audit Service Do I Need?
Contact us to discuss what audit service would be best for your business. Call our team on 01666 503686
What’s Involved in a Health and Safety Audit?
Our consultants use the HSE (Health and Safety Executive) HSG65 document – Managing for Health and Safety which has the approach of PLAN, DO, CHECK, ACT. We will tailor an audit according to your business and work hard to try and reduce the impact on your team, whilst ensuring we can still meet any legal requirements.
Some of our audit work can be completed by calls or online meetings and reviewing your existing paperwork, other aspects may involve a site visit. It is important that you work with us and are transparent and honest about all aspects of your heath and safety for the audit to be effective. If you’re worried about a particular area, flag it to us. We’re here to help you get to a point where your procedures and policies are up to scratch and you have full confidence in them.
Finally, our team will produce a detailed report with the audit results. We’ll list any gaps and indicate whether you are partially or fully compliant in each area and we’ll provide recommendations on what you need to do to make any improvements.
Analysis of Paperwork
Onsite Visit as necessary
Detailed Report
Get the right Health and Safety Audit and Solutions for your Business
Our health and safety consultants have been supporting businesses for 25 years and can work with you to ensure you get the audit that’s right for your business.
If we find areas that need improving, you can be sure that our advice will be pragmatic and practical. Health and Safety procedures only need to be proportionate to the size and activity of your business.
To discuss which audit is right for your business or a free initial consultation about an audit please call us on 01666 503686 or complete our quick contact form and one of our consultants will be in touch.
Give us a Call
Feel free to call us on 01666 503686 to discuss what type of audit you need. We offer a free initial consultation. Call 01666 503686
Frequently Asked Questions
No it’s not a legal requirement to have an audit, but an audit is the best way to get an overview of all of your health and safety policies and procedures and be sure you’ve got every angle covered.
If you are a large business and want to have separate audits for your different business silos, that’s no problem.
Chat to us and we’ll work out what is going to be best for you and the audit process.
Sounds like you definitely need an audit to get a handle on exactly what you are doing well and where you need to improve.
If we see something dangerous, we will tell you immediately and suggest work stops until you have fixed the issue.
Usually though, we find clients are partially compliant and we can suggest steps you need to take to become fully compliant and draw up a plan of action or training programme so you can show any inspectors you are aware and have put measures in place.
It’s great you have an internal audit procedure. This tests whether work and processes match those as stated on your policies.
However, an external audit enables independent experts to assess your health and safety objectively, with fresh eyes against current legislations and guidelines.
More Resources
Seeking further advice and support, why not take a look at our Resources section with toolbox talks, HSE publications and useful links or read our latest blog post for advice from our team
