Safety audits: a company under the microscope
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Safety audits involve the monitoring of organisations to ascertain the acceptability of their health and safety arrangements including standards of occupational hygiene. They will show the arrangements either to be up to an acceptable standard or else will identify deficiencies and will either recommend continuance with the arrangements in place or recommend specific changes. Performance is rated against a theoretical standard and expressed on a scale. Audits are aimed at the management to inform how well the company's arrangements compare to a standard and, repeated over time, they indicate change.
Publication Name: Health & Safety at Work
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0141-8246
Year: 1992
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Status assessments: closing the loop
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Status assessments only look at whether a system can respond to a health and safety problem. When these assessments have been made the results are fed back to the management who then have to make the changes necessary to close loopholes. This stage will involve advice from health and safety specialists who can get to grips with the identified needs. These assessments are different from inspection check-lists or audits as they do not involve quantitative measurements or estimations but only look at response abilities.
Publication Name: Health & Safety at Work
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0141-8246
Year: 1992
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Opening the door on OSH Websites
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Many international organisations are using the Internet's World Wide Web site to provide occupational health and safety information. In the U.K., the Health and Safety Executive has a Website, as do Oxford and Sheffield Universities, the British Medical Journal and the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health. A series of reviews on Web pages from around the world relating to occupational health and safety issues are presented.
Publication Name: Health & Safety at Work
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0141-8246
Year: 1996
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