Course Outline
This course is designed as an interactive and practical course with PowerPoint slides, practical exercises, a full lab audit, video clips, photographs from lab safety audits and MCQ test.
Course Objectives
After completion of this course personnel should be able to:
- Understand internal audit principles & process
- Understand internal audit terminology & requirements
- Identify key components of a safety management system
- Understand the role of the internal auditor
- Develop or improve a lab auditing system
- Understand the need for auditing
- Improve auditing confidence
- Improve audit consistency
Applicability
This course is aimed at all personnel responsible for laboratory safety auditing or who are part of the internal audit team. Up to 12 delegates can attend
Documentation
Full course handouts will be provided to participants. A course evaluation report will be provided after the course with copies of evaluation forms and signed attendance sheets. Participants will receive course certificates on completion.
Duration
Full day (7 hours)
Content
- Course aims & objectives
- Safety Management System Overview (Plan Do Check Act)
- Dow Lab Audit Video
- Managing the audit – Audit cycle
- Audit objectives exercise
- Audit phases & evidence exercise
- Developing the audit programme & audit development exercise
- Introduction to tablet based audit Apps
- ISO auditing principles & auditor skills exercise
- Audit hazard identification exercise – consistency & competence
- Lab safety auditing key points
- Audit questions exercise
- Behaviour based safety in auditing & behaviour based safety exercise
- Key focus areas for lab audits
- Practical auditing skills – Guided lab audit exerciseAudit reporting
- Audit close out – corrective & preventive action