Occupational Health & Safety Risk Management Auditing

Service summary

An evaluation of the organisation’s existing process for identifying hazards, evaluating risks and maintaining controls. The audit examines whether assessments remain connected to actual tasks, workforce experience and operational changes.

Findings show how consistently the risk management process is applied. The auditor does not select controls or take responsibility for accepting workplace risks, which remain management and specialist responsibilities.

Key objectives

• Assess hazard assessment coverage
• Evaluate worker involvement and control implementation
• Examine change and reassessment practices
• Identify risk-management process gaps

Methodology

Selected tasks and changes are traced through existing risk assessments, worker participation and the operating evidence supporting chosen controls.

• Define activities, risk criteria and assessment boundaries.
• Review risk procedures, registers and reassessment triggers.
• Select significant tasks, incidents and operational changes.
• Interview workers and process owners about actual conditions.
• Observe selected controls and compare them with assessment records.
• Evaluate reassessment, residual-risk decisions and action follow-through.
• Report process findings without designing or approving risk treatments.

Key outcomes

References: [G04]

• OH&S risk process assessment
• Task-to-assessment discrepancies
• Worker involvement evidence
• Change and reassessment findings