IS 14489:2018 Occupational Safety and Health Audit Code of Practice C-2: OH&S organizational set-up: safety department, safety committees and safety budget

What does C-2 require?

The audit looks at the safety department (its strength, whether safety officers' numbers and qualifications meet statute, whether its head reports to the chief executive, how often officers are retrained, other duties they carry and their power to stop unsafe acts or conditions); the safety committees (types, structure and terms of reference, constitution under statute, how members are chosen, meeting frequency, implementation of recommendations, circulation of minutes to members, trade unions, chief executive and occupier, the support of management and unions, and how members are kept up to date); and the safety budget (annual amount and share of turnover, spend to date, adequacy, how it is set, five-year spending pattern, sanctions and whether it appears in the annual report).