HSE Audit & Inspection

Course Overview

“What you do not measure you cannot improve on”; every system however good on paper needs to be checked if it actually works in practice. How much more important is this need when what is at stake is not only money but human lives?

This highly-interactive training course will cover the essentials of Audits. Delegates will learn that an Audit is about examining the systems within a company and verifying firstly that the systems actually do exist and secondly that these systems are within the legislative requirements. Within this essential training course, the focus will also be on methods of identifying gaps that should be filled and or improved

Course objective

By the end of this training participants will:

  • Understand the legal background
  • Appreciate all Audit activities
  • Gain knowledge about the elements of a Safety Management system
  • Successfully undertake Site Inspections
  • Assess the Safety Culture of the organization
  • Evaluate the Emergency Plans of the Organisation

           Participant profile

  • All Supervisors and Line Management who have assigned responsibilities within the organisation’s Safety Management System (SMS)
  • HSE personnel
  • Operations personnel
  • Maintenance personnel
  • Staff involved in Contractor work

COURSE DURATION                  

5 days

Course outline

DAY 1

  • Introduction to Audits, Legislation & Contractors
  • Introduction to safety audits and inspections
  • The Legal Aspects
  • Good Practice for the
  • The New Seveso III Directive
  • PSM 1910.119
  • Directive 92/57/EEC – temporary or mobile construction sites
  • Contractor Selection & Induction
  • Risk Management & Risk Assessments
  • Evaluating Risk Assessments

DAY 2

  • Elements of a Safety Management System – Audits
  • Types of Safety Management Systems
  • Mechanical Model
  • Socio Technical Model
  • Elements of Safety – Management Systems
  • SMS Policy – Elements of SMS policy statements
  • Proactive and reactive monitoring of performance
  • ANSI/API 754 Process Safety Indicators
  • The Auditors’ qualifications
  • Audits
  • Pre Audit Activities
  • On Site Activity
  • Post Audit Activities
  • Classification of Findings

DAY 3

  • Inspections
  • Observation Techniques
  • Specific audit / inspection systems – physical inspection of the site
  • Confined Space Entry
  • Work at height
  • Scaffolding
  • Ladders
  • PPE
  • Fire Assessment
  • Chemicals
  • Work Permit Systems

DAY 4

  • Safety Culture
  • Safety Culture and Behavioral Safety
  • Motivation – Taylor, Herzberg, Vroom, Gueller, Maslow
  • ABC Analysis
  • What drives behavior?
  • Natural penalties and consequences
  • Auditing the Safety Culture
  • Improving the Culture

DAY 5

  • Emergencies
  • Internal Emergency Plans
  • External Emergency Plans
  • Auditing emergency plans
  • Audit Reports
  • Seminar Review
  • Evaluation

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