ABSTRACT
Health, Safety, Environment, and Quality (HSEQ) issues are often integrated into one entity in various integrated management systems. In this study, an audit tool for assessing suppliers’ HSEQ performance is reviewed. The tool was developed by a set of large Finnish industrial purchasing companies. The study focused on consistency analysis wherein eight individual experts’ assessments and an actual audit assessment were compared. Statistical analysis indicated that the consistency of the compared results, i.e. their agreement, was good. However, the results showed that various criteria in the tool, and the scales related to those criteria, should be improved.
