Title Page
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Audit Title
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Client / Site
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Conducted on
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Prepared by
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Location
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Personnel
Policy
Policy & Objectives
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Are there adequate arrangements for communicating policies to:
- Staff
- Contractors
- Relevant third parties
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Does the organisation create annual objectives for
- Health & Safety
- Environment
- Quality
- Security
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Are objectives linked to management policy?
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Are objectives SMART
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How frequently are objectives reviewed by senior management?
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Can this review be evidenced?
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Does the organisation hold management HSEQ meetings
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How frequently are they held?
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Are the minutes of these meeting made available to all employees?
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How?
Legislative Compliance
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Does the organisation maintain a legislation register of all applicable legislation to its activities?
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How does the organisation ensure is legislative compliance?
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Does this register include an overview of the legislation?
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Does the register include a statement on how conformance is achieved?
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Does it highlight the applicable procedures in relation to legislation requirements?
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Is it subject to review?
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How does the organisation ensure the register continues to reflect current legislative requirements?
Safety Management
Safe systems of work
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Have all tasks/operations that involve significant risk to HSSEQ been identified and assessed?
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Are employees involved in this assessment process?
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Does the organisation have written procedures/safe systems of work for all the tasks/operations identified?
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How are these systems/procedures communicated to employees?
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When are these safe systems/procedures reviewed?
- Bi-Annually
- Annually
- Changes in legislation
- Changes in service, product or facilities
- Changes in best practice documents
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Is employee feedback sought from those using the procedures/systems on issues stemming from them and/or improvement suggestions?
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Do these procedures reflect industry best practice?
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How can this be evidenced?
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Are the requirements of the permit to work system understood?<br>
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Are employees asked to carry out lone working?
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Has lone working been subject to a risk assessment?
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Does the organisation have a lone worker policy or procedure?
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How is both periodic and emergency contact to/from employees maintained during periods of lone working?
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Are employees required to carry out manual handling activities?
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Are these activities subject to a manual handling risk assessment?
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Does the organisation have a manual handling policy or procedure?
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Are employees engaged in manual handling activities subject to periodic assessment?
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Are employees engaged in manual handling activities subject to training?
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Is this training refreshed?
Employee Engagement and Participation
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Does the organisation hold employee safety meetings?
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Is there another process for informing employees about safety issues relevant to them?
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Describe this process
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How often are these held?
- Daily
- Weekly
- Monthly
- Six Monthly
- Annually
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Does the organisation elect employee safety representatives?
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Does the organisation operate a safety observation program?
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Does it include:
- Adverse Events or Conditions
- Deviations from Procedures
- Security Issues or Incidents
- Customer Complaints
- Good Practice
- Improvement Suggestions
Accidents & Near Miss Events
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Does the organisation have adequate procedures for reporting accidents and near miss events to the HSE?
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Are all accidents and near miss events recorded?
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Does senior management review these records to look for trends and to identify issues?
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Are all accident and near miss events investigated?
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Are investigations subject to senior management oversight?
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Does the organisation understand its duty to report to SEPA where applicable?
Competence Management
Policy
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Does the organisation have a training and competency policy?
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Does it include a statement regarding the assessment of what people do at work?
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Does the policy include all employees who perform safety critical activities?
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Does it include contractor who perform safety critical activities on behalf of the organisation?
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Do the standards of competency used to assess individuals include
- Key roles are documented and defined
- Competence standards for each role are clearly defined
- The standards used clearly relate to the activities undertaken by the employee
- The standards used are aligned to national or industry body criteria
Assessment
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How is competency assessed?
- Completion of required training
- Ongoing documented assessment of work performance
- Testing/Simulation where practical
- Q & A tests
- Other
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Other?
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Are the organisations assessors:
- Trained in the internal process before use
- Subject to external assessor training
- Assessed themselves to ensure consistency in approach
Contractor Management
Contractor Management
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Will the organisation use the service of third party contractors or suppliers in delivering the scope of work to NorSea Group?<br>
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Who are these third parties?
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Are they subject to an approval process prior to use by the organisation?
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Is there performance subject to regular monitoring?
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How would NorSea Group specific requirements be communicated to them?
Customer Focus
Customer Requirements
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Are their sufficient controls to ensure customer requirements are accurately captured and met?
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Do these controls include a clear process for documenting changes in customer requirements?
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Can the organisation provide clear evidence trails to support all invoiced charges?
Non Conformance and Complaint Handling
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Does the organisation operate a formal non conformance system to control service and product issues?
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Are historical records available to view?
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Are non conformance records regularly reviewed by senior management with a view to identifying trends?
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How are these issues addressed?
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Does the organisation keep records of them?
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Are historical records reviewed by senior management to identify trends?
Customer Feedback
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What process to collect feedback on the organisations products or services is in place?
- Fpal Supplier Performance Reports
- Client feedback meetings
- Client feedback surveys
- No process currently in place
Vehicles & Equipment
General
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Does the organisation maintain a log/database of all safety critical vehicles and equipment<br>
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Can the organisation demonstrate that it is in compliance with any statutory requirements for inspection and/or certification of vehicles and equipment?
Equipment
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Is the organisations storage of equipment sufficient to protect it from both damage and unauthorised use?
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Can the organisation demonstrate control of non conforming/damaged equipment (e.g. Use of quarantine area)
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Are there clear methods to prevent employees using out of cert equipment (such as use of colour coding)?
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Does the organisation require pre use inspection of equipment?
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Is this documented?
Vehicles
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Does the organisation require employees to complete pre use inspection of vehicles?
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Is this documented?
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Can a link between documented faults and actioning of repairs be evidenced?
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Can the organisation demonstrate control of access to vehicles to prevent use by untrained or unauthorised individuals?
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Does the organisation maintain a log/database of all vehicle operators required licenses?
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Does the organisation perform periodic assessment of its vehicle operators?
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How often are vehicle operators subject to medical assessment?
- When first employed
- Bi-Annually
- Annually
- Six Monthly
- Vehicle Operators are not subject to medicals
Environmental Management
Management
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Does the organisation have an aspects and impacts register which identify its significant environmental impacts?
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Is the register reviewed by senior management?
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Is the register subject to review at least annually or upon significant changes to working practices or equipment?
Effluent Discharge
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Does the organisations worksite discharge effluent?
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Have the legal requirements for discharge been identified e.g. is a discharge consent in place?
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Does the organisation ensure discharges are in line with any consent e.g. by monitoring activities?
Waste Management
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Does the organisation have effective plans to minimise and segregate its waste streams?
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Has the company's waste contractor been assess to ensure they have the appropriate licenses to transport and process the waste?
Energy Efficency
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Does the organisation monitor its energy consumption?
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Does the organisation have plans/measures in place to minimise its use of energy?
Emissions to the Atmosphere
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Are there significant emissions to the atmosphere from the organisations activities?<br>
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Has the organisation identified it legal obligations with regards to these emissions?<br>?
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Are these emissions subject to a regular form of monitoring or analysis?
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Are there plans to minimise these emissions?
Land Management
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Does the organisation have a risk of land contamination from its activities?
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Has this risk been adequately assessed?
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Does the organisation conduct an impact assessment before modification of existing facilities or creation of new facilities?
Hazardous Substances
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Does the organisations activities include hazardous substances:
- Use
- Storage
- Transport
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Are all drivers ADR trained?
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Do vehicles carry the required personnel and general protection equipment?
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Have drivers received spill response training?
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Are storage facilities and practices suitably sufficient for the chemicals in storage e.g. do they ensure safe separation?
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Are copies of the SDS for chemicals in storage readily available to those handling them?
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Have employees handling substances received spill response training?
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Are employees provided with suitable PPE for handling substances?
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Does the organisation maintain a log of all chemicals in use?
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Have all chemicals in use been subject to a COSHH assessment by a suitably competent assessor?
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Has the content of these assessments been explained to employees?
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Can't this be evidenced?
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Are storage facilities and practices suitably sufficient for the chemicals in use e.g. do they ensure safe separation?
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Have employees handling substances received spill response training?
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Are employees provided with suitable PPE for handling substances?
Emergency Response
Emergency Response Management
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Does the organisation have a documented emergency response plan?
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Are emergency response plans tested?
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Does the organisation have nominated emergency response personnel?
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Are they subject to suitably sufficient training in their duties?
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Does personnel include:
- Fire Wardens
- First Aiders
- Emergency Response Leader
- Family Liaison
- Media Liaison
Emergency Response Equipment Available
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First Aid Equipment
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Defibrillator
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Fire Extinguishers or Water Deluge System
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Emergency Lighting
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Spill Response Materials
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Haz Chemical Kits
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Radiation Protection & Monitoring
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Is all emergency response equipment subject to suitably sufficient inspections by qualified specialists<br>