Health and safety auditA health and safety audit is a specific activity that is carried out in companies to identify breaches of health and safety requirements. The procedure helps to assess the safety of workplaces as well as to ensure that company documents are in order.
When should a health and safety audit be carried out?
Such a procedure should be carried out by organisations that:
Do not have a health and safety specialist on staff;
Are intending to carry out a scheduled or unscheduled assessment of working conditions;
Are preparing for future inspections by state inspectors.
The occupational safety audit should also be carried out by companies where there has been an accident or occupational accidents have occurred.
Stages of an occupational safety audit
In Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk and other cities of Ural the labour safety audit is conducted by experts of certification centre "Rostest Ural". We will check compliance of documentation of your enterprise to the standards accepted in the Russian Federation, we will provide a list of necessary measures which will promote increase labour safety, and also we will help you to avoid penalties from supervising bodies.
During carrying out of audit employees of the centre "Ural Test" will check up presence at your enterprise of necessary protection frames, providing safety of company personnel, and also will define a level of preparation of workers and their knowledge in the field of labour protection.
The result of the audit is a full report on working conditions at the enterprise. The report contains all necessary information, including information on risks, recommendations for safety improvement, list of measures required for elimination of detected non-compliance with law, references to applicable legislative acts.
What is needed to conduct an audit?
You need to apply to the certification centre "Rostest Ural", fill in the relevant application form and submit the following information and documents:
Information about your organisation (name, name of the head, address, TIN and OGRN);
Description of work process, staff schedule;
Copies of documents of the premises;
A list of equipment and/or vehicles used;
A list of protective equipment available;
A list of workers positions for which periodic medical examinations are foreseen;
Details of any health and safety training received.
We will carry out the necessary measures after reviewing the documentation submitted to us and prepare a formal report. In addition to health and safety audits, our experts can also carry out special assessment of working conditions, declaration of compliance of workplaces, implementation of production control.
Contact us using the special form on the Rostest Ural website. Advice from our experts is free of charge.