ABSTRACT

This new edition builds on the success of the first edition. It has been enhanced to embrace new topics including Due Dilgence, EHS Auditing, Process Safety, Auditing, and a chapter summarizing auditing with the relevant ISO standards. The rest of the book has been updated to fit with the guidance and requirements set out with the changes in the ISO standards. The goal of this book remains the same, to provide a "down to earth" guidance for managers and specialists in organizations who are committed to improving their safety, health and environmental performance, but are not sure where to start or do not wish to employ consultants to do this for them. They do it themselves using this book.

Electronic software and additional materials available upon request.

Features

  • Integrates the concepts of safety health and environmental auditing into a common approach of "loss prevention"
  • Provides an audit protocol for 60 aspects of safety, health, and environmental management
  • Presents a summary of the requirements of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 to auditing
  • Introduces the novel and unique concept of Auditing Convergence
  • Offers a simple auditing software (The Plaudit II audit process) in an electronic program which no other book on this topic can offer

chapter |5 pages

Management Systems

chapter |11 pages

Auditing The Principles

chapter |4 pages

What Makes a Good Auditor?

chapter |4 pages

The Standard or Requirement

chapter |8 pages

Preparation

chapter |11 pages

Protocols and Checklists

chapter |2 pages

The Entry Meeting

chapter |1 pages

Area Familiarisation

chapter |6 pages

Audit Observation Skills

chapter |8 pages

The Formal Discussion

chapter |3 pages

The Informal Discussion

chapter |2 pages

Statistical Significance

chapter |4 pages

Conformity

chapter |4 pages

Documentary Review

chapter |4 pages

Convergence

chapter |3 pages

The Exit Meeting

chapter |2 pages

Audit Uniformity and Credibility

chapter |2 pages

Auditor Training

chapter |2 pages

Managing Auditee Expectations

chapter |3 pages

Reporting Quantitative Assessment

chapter |7 pages

Reporting Qualitative Assessment

chapter |1 pages

Follow-Up

chapter |2 pages

Choosing the Audit Process

chapter |2 pages

Audit Team Composition

chapter |6 pages

Using the Plaudit 2 Process

chapter |3 pages

Using the Plaudit 2 Protocol Software

chapter |24 pages

Process Safety Audits

chapter |10 pages

EHS Aspects of Due Diligence Audits

chapter |16 pages

International EHS Auditing Standards