Auditing is an essential tool for managing compliance with essential health and safety, environmental safety and quality standards. Increasingly these three areas are audited by the same professionals to proliferating standards (e.g. OHSAS 18001 for health and safety, ISO 9000 for quality, ISO 14001 for environmental). This book covers all the aspects that need to be taken into account for a successful audit to recognised standards and other non-certifiable business control frameworks.
The book takes a risk based approach to auditing business-critical risk areas, supported by checklists, forms and toolkits, which are also available as free downloads from the books companion web site. Stephen Asbury is Director of Corporate Risk Systems Limited, a Risk Management consultancy. He is a Director and Trustee of IOSH and IOSH Services Limited and has over 20 years experience as a health, safety and environment practitioner. Peter Ashwell is Managing Director of Kingdom Management Limited, an Internal Audit training consultancy which has been servicing multinational clients worldwide for the last 16 years. He is a Chartered Accountant, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management with over 30 years experience in business.
This book shows practitioners how to carry out technical audits to the key health and safety, environment and quality standards. It presents a risk based approach ensures that business critical risks are properly controlled, giving maximum assurance to management. It includes checklists, forms and toolkits, which are also available as free downloads.