Environmental Health and Safety Auditing Training Course

Participants can map applicable compliance obligations into auditable requirements.

• Legal register structure: applicable statutes, permits, licences, and consent conditions
• Compliance obligations mapped to activities, aspects, hazards, and operational controls
• Permit-to-work, emissions, waste, and occupational exposure legal requirements
• Regulatory inspection records, reporting duties, and evidence retention periods
• Due diligence tests for contractor and supplier compliance
• Escalation routes for suspected breaches and imminent danger

Participants can audit common management system requirements across quality, environmental and safety standards.

• ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 clause structures compared
• Annex SL common requirements for integrated management systems
• Context, interested parties, scope, and policy evidence
• Leadership accountability, consultation, participation, and resource commitments
• Documented information controls: approval, revision, access, retention, disposal
• Process maps linking controls, risks, objectives, and performance measures

Participants can prioritise audit scope and sampling using risk and performance information.

• Risk-based audit programmes aligned with ISO 19011 guidance
• Hazard identification using task analysis, JSA, and workplace observation
• Environmental aspects and impacts evaluated through lifecycle perspective
• Risk matrices tested for likelihood, consequence, and control effectiveness
• Materiality thresholds for selecting audit trails and samples
• Risk registers converted into auditable control questions

Participants can prepare a practical audit plan, checklist and sampling approach.

• Audit objectives translated into criteria, questions, and evidence needs
• Annual audit programme priorities set from risk and performance data
• Audit plans defining scope, locations, timing, team, and resources
• Checklists structured around process flows rather than clause order
• Sampling plans based on population, risk, frequency, and criticality
• Opening meeting agenda, roles, protocols, and information requests

Participants can obtain, record and corroborate objective audit evidence.

• Interview planning using funnel questions and corroboration techniques
• Document review trails from policy through records and results
• Observation methods separating conditions, behaviours, and control failures
• Sampling evidence without substituting assumptions for verification
• Field notes capturing source, date, location, and objective facts
• Evidence triangulation across interviews, records, observations, and measurements

Participants can assess common occupational safety and health controls against audit criteria.

• Machine guarding, lockout-tagout, and energy isolation control verification
• Work at height permits, anchors, rescue plans, and inspections
• Confined-space entry controls, atmospheric testing, standby, and rescue
• Chemical inventory, safety data sheets, labelling, and storage segregation
• Occupational hygiene monitoring for noise, dust, fumes, and vapours
• Emergency preparedness drills, first aid, fire systems, and evacuation

Participants can audit environmental aspects, operational controls and compliance records.

• Aspect registers tested against operations, abnormal conditions, and emergencies
• Waste classification, segregation, manifests, storage, and disposal records
• Air emissions monitoring, permit limits, calibration, and reporting
• Water discharge controls, sampling points, laboratory results, and exceedances
• Spill prevention, secondary containment, response equipment, and incident records
• Resource efficiency objectives supported by energy, water, and materials data

Participants can connect quality management controls with HSE risks and requirements.

• ISO 9001 process controls linked to health, safety, and environmental risks
• Nonconforming outputs, corrective action, and customer requirements examined
• Calibration, maintenance, inspection, and test records traced to controls
• Supplier evaluation criteria covering quality, HSE, and legal performance
• Change management controls assessed before process, equipment, or material changes
• Integrated audit trails connecting product quality and HSE consequences

Participants can manage audit meetings, interviews and fieldwork professionally.

• Opening meetings establishing purpose, confidentiality, logistics, and communication routes
• Interview techniques handling evasive answers, disagreement, and language barriers
• Auditor behaviours that preserve respect, independence, and psychological safety
• Time-boxed fieldwork managed through daily evidence and issue reviews
• Remote auditing protocols for video tours, electronic records, and access
• Closing meetings presenting verified findings without premature negotiation

Participants can formulate findings and assess whether corrective actions address underlying causes.

• Nonconformity statements linking criterion, evidence, condition, and requirement
• Grading findings by risk, systemic reach, and regulatory significance
• Observations and opportunities for improvement distinguished from nonconformities
• Root cause analysis using five whys and fishbone diagrams
• Corrective action plans separating correction, cause removal, and prevention
• Due dates, owners, and effectiveness measures assigned to actions

Participants can produce concise audit reports and track corrective action closure.

• Audit reports structured for management decisions and certification evidence
• Executive summaries stating assurance conclusion, priorities, and material risks
• Finding language made factual, concise, traceable, and defensible
• Evidence references protecting confidentiality while enabling independent verification
• Corrective action trackers using status, owner, due date, and validation
• Report quality review against ISO 19011 reporting expectations

Participants can assess incident learning systems and validate HSE performance data.

• Incident investigation interfaces between audit findings and learning systems
• ICAM and five whys used to test causal analysis quality
• Near-miss reporting, classification, and trend analysis controls
• Leading indicators assessed for relevance, integrity, and actionability
• Lost-time injury, severity, and frequency rate calculations checked
• Environmental incident notifications, remediation records, and stakeholder communication

Participants can audit contractor and supplier controls affecting quality and HSE performance.

• Prequalification evidence for contractor competence, insurance, and HSE performance
• Contractor induction, supervision, permit, and coordination controls verified
• Interface risks assessed where contractors share operational areas
• Supplier audits tracing specifications, materials, transport, and waste obligations
• Procurement controls for restricted substances and approved suppliers
• Performance scorecards combining quality, safety, environmental, and compliance measures

Participants can analyse audit results and prepare assurance inputs for management review.

• Audit data analysed using Pareto charts, trends, and heat maps
• Repeat findings tested for systemic weaknesses and ineffective actions
• Management review inputs linked to objectives, incidents, audits, and compliance
• Key performance indicators checked for definitions, sources, and manipulation risks
• Assurance dashboards distinguishing lagging results from control performance
• Audit programme revisions justified by risk trends and organisational change

Participants can extend audit methods to emergency, psychosocial, ergonomic and stakeholder controls.

• Auditing emergency response preparedness against scenarios, plans, and drill evidence
• Business continuity interfaces with HSE controls during disruption
• Psychosocial risk controls assessed through workload, reporting, and support records
• Ergonomic assessments, display-screen controls, and musculoskeletal risk evidence
• Climate-related physical risks considered within environmental control arrangements
• Community complaints, grievance logs, and stakeholder commitments verified

Participants can assemble a complete audit dossier ready for fieldwork and reporting.

• Audit dossier assembled from scope, criteria, risk register, and sampling plan
• Question sets mapped to ISO clauses, legal duties, and controls
• Evidence logs designed for traceability, confidentiality, and finding development
• Finding thresholds agreed before fieldwork to support consistent judgement
• Audit schedules balance document review, interviews, observations, and daily reviews
• Communication plans define escalation, access requests, and closing meeting messages

Participants can build, review and present a complete integrated quality, environmental health and safety audit package.

• Complete integrated audit programme covering quality, environmental, and safety requirements
• Risk-based audit plan with scope, criteria, sampling, schedule, and roles
• Evidence log and findings register supported by traceable audit records
• Corrective action plan with root causes, owners, dates, and effectiveness checks
• Management report presenting assurance conclusion, priorities, trends, and recommendations
• Peer review against ISO 19011 principles and stated audit criteria
• Present audit conclusions and defend evidence-based findings to management