Auditing Health and Safety Management Systems

1.0 IH CM points, 0.8 CEUs, and 0.8 COCs

Prerequisites: Students should either have auditing experience, or their company should have some type of established auditing program; not necessarily a safety and health auditing program. A basic understanding of management principles or quality programs (e.g., VPP, TQM, or ISO 9000/14000) will be helpful.

Learning Outcomes: At the conclusion of the course students will be able to:

• Identify auditing techniques
• Differentiate between management and compliance audits
• Identify methods for assessment of S&H systems
• Demonstrate procedures for developing and assessing a management system

Who Will Benefit: Companies committed to being the best and who apply TQM, VPP, or ISO 9000/14000 certification principles. (The attendee will be presented with a system to apply these principles to S&H management.)

Companies considering or performing compliance audits. (A higher level of auditing—management system audits—will be explained.)

Course Specifics: The course is designed to provide knowledge that will familiarize the student with management and quality assurance principles. This includes knowledge in developing a safety and health management system, and a methodology to audit these safety and health management systems. Attendees will learn auditing techniques, will differentiate management systems audits from S&H compliance audits, and will explore a methodology for assessing the quality assurance of S&H management. Additional techniques, such interviewing and scoring employee or supervisor interviews, will be discussed. The course will also demonstrate procedures for developing a management system, reporting audits, base-lining, and scoring management systems along with graphic demonstrations of the audit results. The attendee will be presented with the S&H management system process and auditing methodology to achieve and maintain compliance, regardless of the management style of their company. Upon viewing the videos and completing program assignments, students will complete a final examination for CM points and CEUs.

Course Outline:

• Introduction: What Are Management Systems?
• What is S&H Management Systems Auditing?
• S&H Program Management Guidelines Defined
• Workshop: Personnel Interviews
• The Audit Report
• Corrective Action Plans and Follow-up
• Audit Metrics
• Summary
• Wrap-up: Questions and Answers

Time to Complete: This course will take approximately eight hours to complete. You will have up to 12 months from your enrollment date to complete the course.

Instructors:

• Paul Esposito, CIH, CSP, STAR Consultants, Inc., Annapolis, Maryland
• John Haas, CIH, CSP, STAR Consultants, Inc., Annapolis, Maryland

Course Components: Video (5 hours, 45 minutes) of the PDC, accompanying 100-page student handout, supplemental reading list, OSHA's S&H program management guidelines, pre-audit questionnaire, sample document review table, handouts of sample interview questions, OSHA audit letter, and final exam

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