ABSTRACT
Safety inspections are the measurement tool and a review would mean a complete audit of the safety management system entailing a comprehensive inspection, employee interviews, and documented evidence scrutiny. An audit involves an opening conference, an inspection, a document review session, a scoring session, and a close out conference, followed by a comprehensive audit report indicating element and total scores. A safety system audit helps identify these root causes and directs the safety efforts to eliminate them. There are various types of audits and examples are as follows: A baseline audit is an audit of the entire safety management system to establish the status of an organization's safety management system in comparison to world's best practices. A formal audit follows a structured evaluation system, a comprehensive quantification, and culminates in a detailed written report highlighting strengths and weaknesses of the safety system.
