2nd Edition

Safety, Health and Environmental Auditing A Practical Guide, Second Edition

By Simon Watson Pain Copyright 2018
286 Pages 9 Color & 43 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

286 Pages 9 Color & 43 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

286 Pages 9 Color & 43 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

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... Read more

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

Biography

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