Reaffirmed 2023

1. SCOPE

This standard establishes audit objectives, criteria and practices and provides guidelines for establishing, planning, conducting and documenting observations of audit(s) on occupational health and safety systems at work place.

It provides guidelines for evaluating the effectiveness of health and safety programs, verifying the availability and implementation of elements of occupational health and safety systems and the system’s ability to achieve defined safety objectives. This standard focuses on general Occupational Health and Safety Audit to be carried out in various industries including Major Accident Hazard industries. Specific audits can be carried out in areas identified based on the general Occupational Health and Safety Audit or in the high risks operations or when there is a high frequency of accidents. Based on the identified elements, type of hazards and nature of the work carried out, a detailed safety audit checklist for conducting the audit should be developed.

This standard can be used as a guideline for selfdemonstration of conformance to IS / ISO 45001 to others and for compliance to IS 15793.

2. REFERENCES

The Indian Standards listed below contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of this Indian standard. At the time of publication, the editions indicated were valid. All standards are subject to revisions, and parties to agreements based on this Indian standard are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent editions of the Indian Standards indicated below.

15793 : 2007 Managing environment, occupational health and safety legal compliance — Requirements of good practices

45001 : 2018 Occupational health and safety management system — Requirements with guidance for use (second revision)