Occupational Risk Prevention Audits: Regulatory, voluntary, ISO 45001 certification and corporate requirements.
The Prevention Audit constitutes the only tool to do an effective fulfillment tracing of the preventing activities developed by the companies, whether they assume the prevention or they have it partially or completely externalized.
Types of Prevention Audits
Adpreven is an Accredited Entity at National Level for the realization of Prevention Audits according to the R.D.39/1997 and the Certifier of Health and Management of Safety Systems Ohsas 18001:07. At Adpreven we have been developing Occupational Risks prevention Audits, for the last 15 years, in different companies, mainly big and medium companies, in every activity, communities and provinces of the national territory.
For more than 20 years we have been carrying out occupational risk prevention audits in various companies, mainly large and medium-sized companies.
Types of Prevention Audits
There are different types of occupational risk prevention audits, which are mainly differentiated by:
- the aspects to be audited,
- scope
- and methodology.
One of the best known prevention audits is the regulatory or legal audit. In order to carry out the regulatory audit we base ourselves on the “criteria established in ANEPA quality criteria for carrying out prevention audits”.
Criterios por los cuales desarrollamos un trabajo serio, objetivo, analítico y a un precio competitivo con un resultado de calidad que ha sido contrastado en multitud de inspecciones de trabajo y visitas de los técnicos de los gabinetes e institutos regionales de seguridad y salud.
El objetivo de una auditoría de prevención, consiste en verificar los requisitos legales aplicables y detectar cualquier tipo de desviación del cumplimiento legal.
El fin no es fiscalizador, sino desde un punto de vista constructivo plantear las desviaciones, para que la empresa realice planes de acción de forma que se solventen en un plazo razonable.
No obstante, en cualquiera de las auditorías de prevención siempre se proponen observaciones del auditor para implementar la mejora continua del sistema de gestión de prevención.
Guarantee and Legal Certainty with Adpreven
As a result, we guarantee a high level of legal certainty for companies that have undergone any of our occupational risk audits, especially in the regulatory audit.
What other types of audits are there?
Apart from this, there are other types of occupational risk prevention audits such as voluntary audits.
Finally, it is also worth noting that, in addition to the legal requirements, other corporate requirements apply to the corporate risk audit of corporate requirements for business groups, which are developed in the different workplaces.
Como resultado, de las especificaciones del cliente, y en función a ellas se aplican, por ejemplo, las llamadas auditorías específicas en las cuales se puede auditar actividades concretas, centros de trabajo concretos u aspectos de prevención sensibles para la empresa.
Advantages in carrying out Prevention Audits
Among the advantages obtained in carrying out prevention audits are the following:
- Verification of legal compliance and increased legal certainty for the company
- Remedying of deviations detected
- Opportunities for preventive system improvement.
- Reduction of accident rates and occupational illnesses
- Improved internal satisfaction of all components of the organisation.
- Commitment to customers and suppliers in the reduction of occupational hazards
