Which two of the following are examples of audit objectives for the audit team?

• A. To implement any necessary corrective action.
• B. To minimise risk resulting from the audit process.
• C. To improve overall health and safety performance.
• D. To reduce instances of injury and ill health.
• E. To complete the audit on time.

Below is a list of potential issues related to the context of organisations. Some of them are internal, and others are external.
Which two are related to external issues?

• A. Workers joined a trade union
• B. Average salaries in the business sector
• C. New owners of the organisation
• D. New technology available on the market
• E. Increased number of outsourced processes
• F. Recently hired workers with limited command of the local language

You will lead a second-party audit of an organization that manufactures car batteries. When you are checking the audit plan with the auditee ' s Safety Manager, she asks you to reduce the production line audit from two hours to one hour and to extend the audit to the warehouse from two hours to three hours. She argues that in the last four internal audits, she did not raise any nonconformities in Production while more than 10 were raised in the warehouse.
Which of the following would be your best answer?

• A. OK. I will change the plan. If necessary, I will use the lunchtime to stay longer in the warehouse.
• B. OK. I will reduce the time in Production to one hour and will review with you (the Safety Manager) the corrective action process in detail during the second hour.
• C. OK. I will change the plan accordingly.
• D. I will not change the plan, but I will consider your comments during the audit.

Whistlekleen is a national dry cleaning and laundry organization with 50 shops. You are conducting an OHSMS surveillance audit of the head office and are sampling health and safety performance monitoring.
You find that 80 per cent of incident originate from five shops in the same region. Most of these relate to staff and customer feeling unwell due to breathing in the pungent atmosphere. Some required to be hospitalized.
The OHS Manager tells you that these are the oldest shops in the organization. The cleaning equipment emits Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and needs replacing but the organisation cannot afford it at the moment.

• A. Offer to compensate employees and customers for possible health implications.
• B. Monitor VOC emissions to ensure compliance with safe limits.
• C. Investigate changing the cleaning process to use chemicals with safe VOC content.
• D. When reviewing the nonformity report files, you find the organization is facing a legal dispute with the Health and Safety Agency over multiple breaches of OHAandS legislation.
• E. On raising the matter with senior management, you are told that there are plans to replace the equipment in these shops over the next five years.
• F. Advise that the faulty equipment will be replaced within the next two years.
• G. Apologise to the Agency and advise that corrective action will be taken within 15 days.
• H. Conduct an internal enquiry to establish who is to blame.
• I. Defend the court case and await the legal outcome.
• J. Select the three best options for how this should be handled by the organisation through its OHSMS.
• K. Give an explanation to the Agency of what went wrong.