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Occupational Medicine 53:129-134 (2003)
Copyright © 2003 Society of Occupational Medicine

Occupational health management: an audit tool

L. Shelmerdine1 and N. Williams2

1Employment Medical Advisory Service, HSE, Grove House, Skerton Road, Manchester M16 0RB, UK.
2Employment Medical Advisory Service, HSE, 1 Hagley Road, Birmingham B16 8HS, UK.

Correspondence to: Mrs L. Shelmerdine, EMAS, HSE, Grove House, Skerton Road, Manchester M16 0RB, UK. e-mail: linda.shelmerdine{at}hse.gsi.gov.uk

Abstract

Background Organizations must manage occupational health risks in the workplace and the UK Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has published guidance on successful health and safety management.

Aims This paper describes a method of using the published guidance to audit the management of occupational health and safety, first at an organizational level and, secondly, to audit an occupational health service provider's role in the management of health risks. The paper outlines the legal framework in the UK for health risk management and describes the development and use of a tool for qualitative auditing of the efficiency, effectiveness and reliability of occupational health service provision within an organization. The audit tool is presented as a question set and the paper concludes with discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of using this tool, and recommendations on its use.

Keywords      Audit; health and safety management; occupational health; tool


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