Do health and safety audits provide comfort rather than treatment for serious safety issues?
Our recent study exploring 71 safety audits has been covered in the AIHS December 23 issue of OHS Professional – page 28.
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Follow this link or click on the image to read the full study: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106348
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Ben,
Nice one. The paper was very solid, the findings globally applicable (if uncomfortable to acknowledge) and a bit of positive exposure never goes astray.
Tom
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Thanks Tom, appreciated.
Although like you I also suspect that the findings are more widely applicable, it’s difficult to empirically conclude.
We have another paper soon to be published that analysed >1000 major/process accident reports for audit failures according to the investigators. These findings also substantiate many of the findings from this paper.
So the findings seem to apply across the process, petrochemical, oil & gas, mining, and offshore gas sectors.
Cheers.
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