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A health and safety audit is an objective and impartial assessment of your business, with respects to your compliance to health and safety legislation. View Full Answer
No! Unfortunately, it doesn't (it's not meant to). A health and safety audit simply determines where your business stands in respect of health and safety legislation. View Full Answer
That's a good question! There is a good reason why as well; actually, there are a couple of good reasons why. Firstly, the audit questions are linked directly to legislation so an audit establishes exactly where you stand with regards to health and safety. Knowing where you are (whether it's good or it's bad), allows you to determine a plan of action and thereby take constructive action to fix thi View Full Answer
After an initial health and safety audit has been conducted, a health and safety audit is conducted annually. This allows the business time to make improvements and also allows adjustment checks to be made should legislation change during the year. View Full Answer
That's an awesome question! To answer this best, we have to share some bad news and some good news. The bad news first; health and safety is driven by legislation! A number of Acts, a series of Regulations, Standards and By-laws means there is a lot of red tape. View Full Answer
Well, it doesn't exactly but what it does do is provide the context as to why health and safety is the way it is. Now for the good news; we've taken all of the red tape, placed it into our audit and created a simplified way to explain the outcome in a way that makes sense to you. If it's easier to understand, it's easier to fix!
Now all that hard work just got easier! View Full Answer
Unfortunately, you cannot! Any audit of this nature, has to be objective in order for it to be considered credible. When you conduct this type of audit yourself, credibility is immediately questioned because the process can be interpreted as being subjective not objective. View Full Answer
A health and safety finding is the description of something which has been identified in the audit which does not comply with health and safety legislation. It can be an act (action), an omission or a situation. View Full Answer
Nice question! When Makrosafe completes the work on behalf of a member, to resolve a finding, the finding will be closed by Makrosafe upon completion of the work. When a member completes the work to resolve a finding, the finding cannot be closed by the member. It can only be closed once the work done has been verified by Makrosafe. Once verified, Makrosafe will close the finding. View Full Answer
Whilst this would be quicker, it's true, this would break audit protocol. In the same way an audit is carried out objectively by an external party, to give validity to the audit, so any changes on improving the compliance in respect of the audit must work the same way, to give credibility to those changes. Hence, the system does not allow a client user to close findings. View Full Answer
This is a very important question and the answer is very simple! Any actions you take to improve your compliance rating, need to have findings removed. In order for a finding to be removed, it must first be confirmed that it has been done. Only then, can it be removed. View Full Answer
Yes, you will! A charge will be rendered to perform the verification of the action you've taken. The cost will vary and depends on two factors; whether a desktop verification or a physical verification is required and how long it will take to perform the actual verification. View Full Answer
A desktop verification means the actions you've taken to improve your health and safety can be confirmed on the OHS Online system. Any charge made will be purely for the time taken to verify the action on the system. A physical verification means the action you've taken requires a practitioner to come out and make a site inspection to verify the health and safety actions taken. Any charge will inc View Full Answer