Management audit
Hsg65 audit
What does this form include?
This form contains 6 sections:
Policy
- Does the school/directorate have a written health and safety policy?
- Signature/authorisation of head of school/directorate
- Safety intentions and objectives
- Organisation setting out safety responsibilities of named staff
- Arrangements/procedures for compliance
- Responsibility for monitoring
Comments
Organisation
- Does the organisation reflect the school/directorate management structure? View and confirm organisation charts with health and safety responsibilities
- Safety is a primary management function
- Safety is integral with the management role
Competence
- How are staff and students trained in their safety responsibilities and procedures
- There is a procedure to identify individual safety training or qualification needs
- Training needs and timetables are agreed and the training is provided
- All staff receive safety induction training within 10 days of appointment
- Students receive appropriate safety induction (annually or on a course by course basis)
- Staff receive further training if their job and/or responsibilities change significantly
- Managers and supervisors receive safety training
- Safety committee members and those with advisory safety function receive training
- Training includes legal duties, college and school requirements, procedures and standards
- Training is provided for risk managers and assessor a
- Training is provided for those involved in self inspection
- The effectiveness of safety training is monitored
- Records of staff training are maintained
Planning
- Does the school have a safety plan?
- A plan exists and sets out specific targets
- The plan is integral with business plans
- The plan identifies specific, measurable, achievable objectives
- There is an emergency plan for managing foreseeable incidents to mitigate damage
- There is a business or recovery plan to facilitate return to normal operations
- Is there a timetable for delivering the plan?
- Responsibility for delivering the plan is assigned to named individuals
- Individual performance is monitored to measure progress
Arrangements
- Have the school's activities, functions or processes been subject to risk assessment? View and confirm a selection of risk assessments for selected areas and activities. Most (+60%) risk assessments:
- Identify and list all the hazards
- Identify unusually hazardous activities
- Evaluate likelihood and consequences of harm
- Identify persons at risk
- Identify persons at special risk
- Identify activities that may affect the general public
- Identify risk controls and safe working practices
- Identify emergency procedures for foreseeable incidents
- Persons involved with activities are consulted
- Findings are recorded
- Findings are provided to operators
- Assessments are reviewed and updated
- Are consistent with written codes or procedures for the activity
- Classify the level of residual risk
- Are included In a school risk register
- Are completed by competent risk assessors
- Are signed off appropriate risk managers
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