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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Perform audit planning
   • Identify safety audit objectives, scope and focus
   • Identify target operations and documentation
   • Determine safety audit process and sampling technique
   • Determine frequency and random timing of audit event
   • Prepare audit documentation
   • Conduct pre-audit communications with client and relevant stakeholders
2. Undertake safety audit activities
   • Undertake a site-specific risk assessment by identifying work health and safety hazards and assessing risk
   • Conduct random audit testing of site operations for usage of personal protective equipment
   • Conduct regular audit testing of tools, equipment and machinery for defective components
   • Conduct random audit inspection of dedicated rescue equipment
   • Conduct regular audit testing of operational, start-up and maintenance procedures for tools, equipment and machinery and associated checklist documentation
   • Conduct regular audit inspection of hazard identification, risk control and toolbox meeting documentation
   • Conduct random audit interviews for quality checking of personal protective equipment and clothing
   • Confirm currency and availability of tickets and certifications required by personnel to perform specialised work functions
   • Implement safety audits at appropriate frequency
3. Identify and respond to non-conformance
   • Identify and record non-conformance
   • Identify situations requiring referral
   • Issue verbal and written warnings for non-conforming work practices
   • Issue verbal and written notices for unsafe work practices
   • Tag tools and equipment requiring repairs and label with repair information details
   • Tag unsafe tools and equipment with ‘Do Not Operate’ tags and remove from operational use areas
   • Provide advice for improvement and rectification of non-conformance
4. Record, report and present audit results
   • Prepare safety audit report
   • Make final recommendations on action required
   • Obtain responses and finalise audit
   • Record safety audit findings
   • Conduct post-audit communications with client

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

The candidate must be assessed on their ability to integrate and apply the performance requirements of this unit in a workplace setting. Performance must be demonstrated consistently over time and in a suitable range of contexts.

The candidate must provide evidence for and demonstrate:

identifying safety audit objectives, scope and focus

identifying target operations and documentation

determining safety audit process and sampling technique

determining frequency and random timing of audit event

preparing audit documentation

conducting pre-audit communications with client and relevant stakeholders

undertaking a site-specific risk assessment by identifying work health and safety hazards and assessing risk

conducting random audit testing of site operations for usage of personal protective equipment

conducting regular audit testing of tools, equipment and machinery for defective components

conducting random audit inspection of dedicated rescue equipment

conducting regular audit testing of operational, start-up and maintenance procedures for tools, equipment and machinery and associated checklist documentation

conducting regular audit inspection of hazard identification, risk control and toolbox meeting documentation

conducting random audit interviews for quality checking of personal protective equipment and clothing

confirming currency and availability of tickets and certifications required by personnel to perform specialised work functions

implementing safety audits at appropriate frequency

identifying and record non-conformance

identifying situations requiring referral

issuing verbal and written warnings for non-conforming work practices

issuing verbal and written notices for unsafe work practices

tagging tools and equipment requiring repairs and label with repair information details

tagging unsafe tools and equipment with ‘do not operate’ tags and remove from operational use areas

providing advice for improvement and rectification of non-conformance

preparing safety audit report

making final recommendations on action required

obtaining responses and finalising audit

recording safety audit findings

conducting post-audit communications with client

use of industry standard terminology to describe safety audits.

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

safety audit objectives

safety audit scope

safety audit focus

target operations

site-specific risk assessment

safety audit process

sampling technique

audit frequency

random timing of audit event

audit documentation

pre-audit communications

random audit testing of site operations for usage of personal protective equipment

regular audit testing of tools, equipment and machinery for defective components

random audit inspection of rescue equipment

regular audit testing of operational, start-up and maintenance procedures for tools, equipment and machinery and associated checklist documentation

currency and availability of tickets and certifications

non-conformance

non-conforming work practices

referral

verbal and written warnings

tagging tools and equipment requiring repairs

repair information details

tagging unsafe tools and equipment with ‘do not operate’ tags

rectification of non-conformance

advice for improvement of non-conformance

safety audit report

final recommendations on action required

safety audit findings

post-audit communications.

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