What is it?
Provides a quantified outcome with detailed recommendations against a contemporary best practice specification (including the requirements of ISO 45001) over and above current OHSMS standard requirements.
The audit specification model includes six best practice indicators which are continually assessed throughout the audit process:
- Leadership
- Stakeholder engagement
- Risk management
- Organisational health and safety culture
- Continual improvement
The audit goes far beyond the requirements of current health and safety management systems such as ISO 45001. Undertaking this audit allows you to demonstrate your commitment to achieving excellence in health and safety standards to your employees, clients and other stakeholders.
We have now launched our 2023 specification you can request a call back and a member of our team will share the same with you.
Who is it for?
Organisation’s within any sector (of any size) who:
(a) require a status assessment of their current OHSMS against best practice
(b) require a structured route toward best practice status.
Why the audit is right for your organisation?
The audit goes far beyond the requirements of current health and safety management systems such as ISO 45001. Undertaking this audit allows you to demonstrate your commitment to achieving excellence in health and safety standards to your employees, clients and other stakeholders.
The audit also provides:
- External recognition of OHSMS to best practice standards.
- Demonstration to stakeholders and other interested parties (including regulatory bodies) of commitment toward health and safety.
- Structured route toward continual improvement and best practice standards.
- Verification and independent recognition of the effectiveness of your health and safety management system(s).
- A comprehensive audit report outlining the findings of the audit, quantified outcomes, associated areas of improvement with detailed recommendations.
- Potential for improved safety performance, workforce morale and wellbeing.
- Potentially reduced rates of accidents, injuries, ill-health, litigation costs and improved productivity.
- Certificate and logo can be used to demonstrate your success.
- Enhanced reputation and marketing opportunities.
Next steps
Prerequisites
None.
Dave Parr, Head of Audit and Technical, talks about the Five Star Occupational Health and Safety Audit in detail.
The audit at a glance
- Five best practice indicators
- Four sections
- Fifty-Seven (57) elements
How does it work?
- On site review of relevant documentation
- Interviews / discussions with relevant stakeholders (including top management)
- Operational sampling
What will your organisation receive from the audit?
- Detailed report
- Detailed recommendations and action planning
- Quantified outcome in all 56 element
- Benchmarking across various aspects of the specification
- Eligibility for sword of honour (if five-star achievers)
- Certification of achievement
Why choose the British Safety Council
Our audit and consultancy services are internationally recognised and are the best way to ensure your health, safety and environmental management systems (and associated arrangements) are suitable for your business requirements, promote continual improvement and are effectively implemented.
As part of our own quality control processes, we ensure:
- Our audit and consultancy products are regularly reviewed to meet customer needs, expectations and sector best practice
- Consistently high standards of service are achieved through a robust quality assurance process including auditor standardisation, training and performance monitoring
- Our technical specialists serve on strategic committees for occupational health, safety and environmental standards
- We have a unique internationally recognised best practice (five star) audit process
- Industry recognition from awards such as the prestigious Sword or Globe of Honour
What to do next
FAQs
Here is a list of common questions that people ask us. If you can’t find what you’re looking for please email [email protected] or call us on +91 8587914964.
What consultancy services do you offer?
Our health and safety and environmental consultancy services are based entirely on customer needs and involve one of our experts helping to support improvements in performance in general or more specific areas (for example: risk assessments, training needs analysis, legionella surveys, asbestos management, permit to work processes, strategic planning, culture surveys, etc.)
What audits does the British Safety Council offer?
We currently offer a range of audit products and services including our best practice Five Star Wellbeing Audit, Five Star Occupational Health and Safety, Five Star Environmental and Five Star Integrated audits. We also offer certification audits to the ISO 14001 (2015) standards and the ISO 45001 standard (when issued). A bespoke sector-specific systems review service (safety and environmental) is also available and provides a baseline indication of how effectively your safety, health and/or environmental systems are being implemented across multiple sites or within specific departments.
Five Star Occupational Health and Safety Audit - what is it?
Our Five Star Audit is an internationally recognised, quantified and comprehensive audit process used by organisations to compare their health and safety management system against best practice technique and current trends.
Five Star Occupational Health and Safety Audit - what is changing?
The current specification continues to offer you the opportunity to progress toward a best practice occupational health and safety management system(s) and the business benefits this can produce. The specification aligns best practice safety management indicators (including leadership and stakeholder engagement) against a Plan - Do - Check - Act management model.
As part of the British Safety Council’s commitment to the continual product-improvement, together with a recognition of recent developments in legislative and safety management trends, our five-star audit specification(s) are reviewed on an annual basis.
Five Star Environmental Audit - what is it?
Our Five Star Environmental Audit is an internationally recognised audit process used by leading organisations to compare their environmental performance against best practice and current trends.
What is the Sword of Honour?
The Sword of Honour is an award scheme available to organisations that have achieved a five-star rating in our Five Star Occupational Health and Safety Audit. A separate award process is independently adjudicated and only those submissions from five star organisations, which meet defined criteria, are awarded the sword of honour status. A true recognition of excellence in health and safety management.
What is the Globe of Honour?
The Globe of Honour is an award scheme available to organisations that have achieved a five-star rating in our Five Star Environmental Audit. A separate award process is independently adjudicated and only those submissions from five star organisations, which meet defined criteria, are awarded the globe of honour status. A true recognition of excellence in environmental management.
ISO 45001 - What is it?
A new international health and safety standard management system standard that is expected to eventually replace BS OHSAS 18001. ISO 45001 reflects contemporary health and safety management requirements and is currently due to be published in late 2017.
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