AUDIT NOTES 2008 V7 with notes

NFDC site audit scheme guidance notes: The NFDC site audit scheme is intended to assist NFDC members to demonstrate that they are able to properly discharge their legal Health and Safety duties. It is a comfort to clients and insurance companies alike. These notes attempt to point NFDC members in the right direction and to simplify what answer the audit question is looking for. Most points will already be normal practice for any good demolition company. There are a few points where this scheme asks for a little more than the legal minimum and these will be identified in the notes. Evidence required: Where there is a need to identify a record of something, e.g. plant maintenance records then those records must be available to check. Training: the need to provide training is highlighted in the HSE publication INDG 345. “The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 requires the employer to provide whatever information, instruction, training and supervision as is necessary to ensure, so far as is reasonable practicable, the health and safety at work of their employees (ensuring that the employees are competent to undertake the specific task asked of them) This is also expanded by the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, which identify situations where health and safety training is particularly important, e.g. when people start work, on exposure to new or increased risks and where existing skills may have become rusty or need ...