Safety, Health and Environmental Auditing - Simon Watson Pain

Safety, Health and Environmental Auditing

A Practical Guide, Second Edition
Buch | Softcover
286 Seiten
2023 | 2nd edition
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-1-032-57020-4 (ISBN)
57,35 inkl. MwSt
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.
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

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. More information at www.solwayconsulting.com

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 9 Illustrations, color; 43 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 500 g
Themenwelt Wirtschaft
ISBN-10 1-032-57020-2 / 1032570202
ISBN-13 978-1-032-57020-4 / 9781032570204
Zustand Neuware
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