2nd Edition
Safety, Health and Environmental Auditing A Practical Guide, Second Edition
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
Preface
About the Author
Chapter 1 Elements of a Good Safety, Health and Environmental System
Chapter 2 Management Systems
Chapter 3 Auditing: The Principles
Chapter 4 What Makes a Good Auditor?
Chapter 5 The Standard or Requirement
Chapter 6 Preparation
Chapter 7 Protocols and Checklists
Chapter 8 The Entry Meeting
Chapter 9 Area Familiarisation
Chapter 10 Audit Observation Skills
Chapter 11 The Formal Discussion
Chapter 12 The Informal Discussion
Chapter 13 Statistical Significance
Chapter 14 The Importance of Verification and the Audit Trail
Chapter 15 Conformity
Chapter 16 Documentary Review
Chapter 17 Convergence
Chapter 18 The Exit Meeting
Chapter 19 Audit Uniformity and Credibility
Chapter 20 Auditor Training
Chapter 21 Managing Auditee Expectations
Chapter 22 Auditing and Its Relevance to Regulatory Compliance
Chapter 23 Reporting: Quantitative Assessment
Chapter 24 Reporting: Qualitative Assessment
Chapter 25 Follow-Up
Chapter 26 Choosing the Audit Process
Chapter 27 Audit Team Composition
Chapter 28 Using the Plaudit 2 Process
Chapter 29 Using the Plaudit 2 Protocol Software
Chapter 30 Process Safety Audits
Chapter 31 EHS Aspects of Due Diligence Audits
Chapter 32 International EHS Auditing Standards
Glossary
Appendix 1: Auditor Guidance
Appendix 2: Plaudit 2 Audit Protocol
Index
Biography
Simon W. Pain is an award winning independent Safety, Health, and Environmental Management consultant based in Scotland. He has a wealth of health, safety, and environmental management experience in various manufacturing industries gained over the last thirty-seven years.
Simon is a chartered mechanical engineer with more than thirty-two years experience in senior management positions with British Steel, ICI, and DuPont’s engineering, manufacturing, research, and corporate functions. He has been advising company executives at the board level on safety, health, and management issues for the last twelve years. He spent many years as Divisional Safety, Health, and Environmental Manager for ICI and DuPont; the latter is widely regarded as the world benchmark company for health and safety standards. During the last twenty years he has developed novel techniques in health and safety training and communication, which were commended by the Institute of Occupational Safety & Health in November 2004. He has subsequently developed the unique SHEEMS emergency management system for small businesses. It is through this work that he has been awarded Best International Health & Safety Consultancy – Scotland and also International Health & Safety Consultancy of the Year – 2017.
As a consultant, Simon specializes in raising awareness and motivating senior managers to achieve a paradigm shift in health and safety awareness. He does this by using the high-impact approach and making the subject interesting and fun.
He is an expert in auditing, especially at the management level and personally designed and developed the ICI audit protocol system to ensure that auditing standards were consistent. As a Det Norske Veritas-trained auditor he has led audits not only in the United Kingdom, but also in the United States, Japan, Belgium, and the Netherlands. He regularly carries out lectures and training for health, safety, and environmental auditing.
He is a Fellow of both the U.K. Institute of Mechanical Engineers and the Institute of Energy and a chartered member of the Institute of Occupational Safety & Health. He was also a member of the U.K. government’s Energy Best Practice Committee and a board member for the Solway River Purification Board until the formation of the new Scottish Environment Protection Agency.
Simon graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Birmingham and obtained his postgraduate qualifications in health and safety from the University of Loughborough.
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