Health and safety management is an integral part of business risk management, with auditing being an essential component for helping ensure efficacy and continual improvement. Audits should not be dreaded or adversarial, but regarded as opportunities for organisations to learn and for auditors to share good practice.

This book can assist employers and prospective and practising auditors to better understand their respective roles and also the potential value to the organisation of a well-designed and conducted audit undertaken by a competent auditor or audit team.

Rob Strange
Chief Executive
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
Leicester, UK

I am delighted to have been asked to offer my support to a book that clearly outlines how beneficial having a positive approach to auditing has become in this contemporary, but accountable world we live in.

All companies, no matter what size they are, have a duty to satisfy their customers, both internal and external, as well as interested stakeholders, that their business is run and governed correctly. How better to demonstrate this than by welcoming their activities to be audited by external individuals.

During my 20-odd years in the chemical industry we were audited many times and although we knew up front there was much to do, always had the attitude that an audit should be welcomed and not feared as it allowed a fresh pair of eyes to overview our activities and possibly spot something our all too familiar eyes had missed. Working with the auditors, and not against...