Welcome from Stephen!

Welcome to the companion website for Health and Safety, Environment and Quality Audits by Stephen Asbury. Since its first edition in 2006, this has become the standard work in the HSEQ auditing field, securing best-seller status in Australasia, Europe, North America and South Africa. It is essential reading for senior managers and auditors alike.

Internal auditing is an essential tool for managing compliance, and for initiating and driving continual improvement in any organizations’ systematic HSEQ performance. The book is the first to be based on ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and the new ISO 45001. It delivers a powerful and proven approach to risk-based auditing of business-critical risks. It connects the ‘PDCA’ approach to implementing management systems with auditing by focusing on the organization’s context and the needs and expectations of interested parties. It remains the ‘go to’ title for those who aspire to drive a prosperous and thriving business based on world-class HSEQ management and performance.

This website provides you with copyright-free documents from the book, and other valuable resources for auditors. Please acknowledge Stephen Asbury as the source.

About the author

Stephen Asbury

Stephen is a Chartered Safety Practitioner, a Chartered Environmentalist, and an IRCA OH&S Lead Auditor. He has experience from over 1000 audits and reviews completed in over 50 countries on six continents.

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Auditor’s planning checklist

Here is my copyright-free AFWP (audit finding working paper). Feel free to amend it if you wish.

Audit finding working paper (AFWP)

This is my checklist to help auditors from start to finish.

Pre-audit arrangements letter

This is my very useful interview performance checklist.

Interview performance checklist

This is a draft letter for pre-audit arrangements. Again copyright-free – feel free to amend it as required.

Wallcharts for recording the conduct of an audit

These are the eleven wall-charts for recording the conduct of an HSE audit to ISO 14001 and/or OHSAS 18001.

Audit file index

This is my suggested index for your audit file

Articles and papers

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Apostrophes – a brief guide

Here is Dr. Rothwell’s guide, featured in the book, on how to punctuate better – in particular, the use of apostrophes.

London 2012 vision – presentation to IOC 6th July 2005

This is the vision for the London 2012 Olympic Games, as presented to the International Olympic Committee on 6 July 2005

The Art of War, by Sun Tzu

We thank publishers Pax Librorum for allowing us to provide you with the full text of Sun Tzu’s ‘The Art of War’

The commission on Auditors’ Responsibilities

This is the seminal paper on auditors’ responsibilities – published in 1978.

Watchdog or bloodhound

This is an interesting article pondering whether auditors should be watchdogs or bloodhounds by nature

What does a CFO expect from internal audits

This is an interesting paper given by the CFO of Shell describing what senior management expects from internal audit.

Example frameworks

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My HSE-MS

This is my template HSE-MS manual, based on ISO 14001 and ISO 45001, to adapt for use in your organization. Please feel free to amend it as you wish.

COSO Enterprise risk management

This is an example framework referred to in the book: COSO Enterprise Risk Management.

Global reporting initiatives guidelines

This is an example framework referred to in the book: Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Guidelines.

London 2012 Olympic delivery authority HSE-MS

This is an example framework referred to in the book: London 2012, Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) HSE-MS.

OGP HSE-MS 6_36_210

This is an example framework referred to in the book: OGP HSE-MS.

Example frameworks - ILO OSH 2001

This is an example framework referred to in the book: ILO OSH 2001.

Videos

Video 1

The author, Stephen Asbury, talks about the approach to risk-based auditing commended in his book – this highly-effective approach is called ‘The Audit Adventure’, and his best-selling book is called ‘HSEQ Audits – A Risk-based Approach’.

Video 2

The author, Stephen talks about the evolution of business management systems for continual improvement in organizational performance.

Websites of interest

Here is a list of websites that you might find useful.

The following links are presented as recommendations. All information on these websites are the responsibility of their administrator and may change over time. If you find any broken links, please try to locate the website via a search engine.