Safety, Health and Environmental Auditing : A Practical Guide, 2nd 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.

• 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