A health and safety audit is a mechanism to determine the extent to which there is compliance with a set of agreed standards and is an essential part of any management system. Safety audits are an aid to Directors and management to identify strengths and weaknesses in the management system and enable an appropriate action plan to be developed.

Audits and the implementation of the necessary recommendations will also:

• reduce the potential for accidents
• reduce the risk of enforcement action
• reduce the potential for liability claims

• audit your entire safety programme, which should be subjected to an in depth examination from time to time.
• audit specific areas of operations in your business e.g. (contractors)
• verify compliance with regulations, policies and operating procedures.
• recommend a strategy to improve standards