Quality Services

A health and safety audit is a comprehensive assessment of an organization's commitment to protecting the health and safety of its employees.

An audit assesses your organization’s health and safety practices, policies, and procedures against regulatory standards, identifying areas of non-compliance and potential gaps.

A plan is then developed which prioritizes actions and the measures needed to comply with specific regulations. Regular follow-up audits help to assess the effectiveness of implemented control measures, identify any new compliance issues, and track progress toward achieving compliance goals.

Improved procedures resulting from audit recommendations can lead to fewer workplace accidents. This reduction in accidents minimizes human suffering and the associated financial costs.
Accidents can entail significant expenses such as medical treatment, compensation, legal fees, and damage repair, as well as the unquantifiable cost of reputational damage.

Program Auditing and Assessments

“An ounce of prevention is worth a poUnd of cure”

Benjamin Franklin

From basic individual program gap assessments to robust deep-dive auditing of your entire health and safety programs, we use a hybrid methodology drawn from ISO45001, COR Certification Protocols, and over 25 years of experience in conducting assessments. This approach enables us to offer a comprehensive risk-based reporting process that includes evaluating employee and organizational risk, and liability, prioritizing areas requiring attention, and providing recommendations for improvement.

These audits and assessments provide further value with Safety Culture Assessment Surveys and Maturity Level Analysis as additional overviews of where your program and organization are based on industry best practices, due diligence and methodologies such as the Hudson Maturity Model and Hearts and Minds type analysis.

Broken Lance can also provide on-site compliance and risk-based inspections to ensure the risks and hazards on site are being addressed, that procedures and compliance is consistent, and hazard are being identified and actioned appropriately.

Health and Safety Program Auditing and Gas Assessment Services

From these audits and assessments, our team provides a risk-based report to allow the organization to view its programs from a non-biased and passionate perspective regarding their effectiveness, compliance, and adherence to the spirit of the law. These observations and recommendations are analyzed and submitted along with industry best practices gleaned from years of experience across multiple industries, organizations, and teams worldwide.

Broken Lance will also provide guidance and consultation on next steps, building action plans and monitoring the completion and effectiveness of these controls and changes. This ensures that they can be sustained, continue to be effective, and regularly assessed for continuous improvement. Adjustments will be made due to operational changes or revisions/additions to legislation moving forward.

Basic Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) Elements

Building a compliant and effective safety management system

1.Management leadership and commitment to OH&S

2.Occupational Health and Safety communication

3.Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) developed structure – ‘the program’

4.Employee qualification, orientation, training and competency assurance

5.Hazard identification and assessment

6.Hazard control and risk management (Task Hazard Assessment or Analysis systems)

7.Worksite inspections

8.Emergency preparedness and response (ERP

9.Incident investigation and incident management – corrective actions

10.System review and continuous improvement

Assessing program compliance and effectiveness