Occupational Safety Audit Consultant

A Occupational safety audit is a process followed to evaluate effectiveness of occupational health and safety programs. Audits help to identify and correct the issues in Occupational safety. Audits are sometimes looked at with fear and anxiousness, however audits are one of the best tools that can be used by a company to ensure compliance. Some of the benefits of audits are given below:

• It’s a proactive approach of identifying actual/potential compliance issues before they become a problem
• Audits help to determine the cause of compliance issues to prevent reoccurrence
• Audits helps to enhance the safety culture of the company and it keeps the companies ready for audits by regulatory agencies like federal, state or local
• Audits are a very good spot check/oversight from independent eyes to provide an objective assessment
• Audits help companies to avoid potential violations/fines
• Audits help companies to enhance best management practices to protect in case of incidents/accidents
• Audits help prepare for new regulations that may impact the company based on its operations and hazards it deals with
• Audits help in reducing risk of business and liabilities
• Audits help to improve the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the compliance programs.
• Audits help maintain a good corporate image in the community
• Audits help in increasing employee awareness of safety and environmental regulations.
• Audits leading to improvements for existing safety deficiencies can also build confidence of the employees with the company with better retention.

Safety audits must be conducted by independent outside 3rd party/consultants in order to ensure a cold eye-review/unbiased review of policies, procedures, and safety management systems. AGGIE SAFETY can be a partner to your needs utilizing its experts. Following work process is followed by AGGIE SAFETY to conduct an impactful audit for your facility:

• A thorough inspection/field assessment of your facility
• Employee interviews are conducted during the process
• Facility documentation including training is reviewed/spot checked

After inspections/field assessments, a detailed report to the customer is provided with following key aspects:

• Issues and concerns not meeting OSHA requirements
• Recommendation from AGGIE SAFETY experts to mitigate the issue and meet the OSHA requirements
• Actual CFR code for item not meeting requirement
• Prioritization of the issue on high, medium and low based on severity of the hazard and its deficiency
• AGGIE SAFETY will provide evidence based on pictures from inspections, as well as code references
• AGGIE SAFETY can also provide support details and timeline in order to mitigate the deficiency

It is imperative for an employer to follow through and correct issues/violations found in inspections and audits. This ensures for keeping employees and their environment safe. AGGIE SAFETY supports its customers in follow-up through actions in order to achieve excellent compliance.

Past support by AGGIE SAFETY has helped its clients to achieve compliance with past OSHA violations. Utilizing proactive approach of conducting mock-audits/inspections and follow-up with actions have helped clients minimize OSHA violations/citations.

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AUDITs can help identify occupational safety hazards and remediate them proactively. Top OSHA Violations for 2024 were as follows; AGGIE SAFETY can help you mitigate all of them: