Audit Programme Objective and Scope

An organization shall establish it’s WSH audit programme by establishing the audit objectives which may include:

• Verification of compliance with legal requirements
• Verification of conformance with customers requirement
• Meeting certification requirements
• Meeting Organizational requirements
• Improvement to management system

Similarly, an organization should also analysis the organizational audit needs which may include:

• Compliance with Legal and other requirements
• Mandatory requirements
• Customer’s requirements
• WSH Management system requirements

Following which an organization shall also establish the audit scopes to meet the  type of audit identified and it’s objectives which may include the following audit criteria:-

• Legal requirements
• Singapore Standards and Code of Practice
• Industrial standards
• Certification requirements
• Accreditation requirements
• Registration requirements
• Customer’s requirements
• Contractual requirements
• WSH management system requirements

Following the establishment of  the audit criteria, an organization shall then establish & assign the audit programme responsibilities which may include:

• Establishment of audit objectives and scope
• Provision of resources
• Development of audit plans
• Implementation of audit plans
• Conduct of audit
• Report of audit
• Monitor and review and improvement of audit programme

WSH SMS Regulations 2009 Interpretation

Singapore Workplace Safety & Health  (Safety and Health Management System and Auditing) Regulations 2009 stipulate that every workplace which falls under any of the workplaces category in the Second Schedule is require to implement a safety and health management system for the purpose of ensuring the safety and health of persons at work .

Excerpts taken from the SECOND SCHEDULE

SECOND SCHEDULE

Regulation 8(1)

WORKPLACES TO IMPLEMENT SAFETY AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

1. Any premises which is a worksite.

2. Any premises which is a shipyard.

3. Any factory engaged in the manufacturing of fabricated metal products, machinery or equipment and in which 100 or more persons are employed.

4. Any factory engaged in the processing or manufacturing of petroleum, petroleum products, petrochemicals or petrochemical products.

5. Any premises where the bulk storage of toxic or flammable liquid is carried on by way of trade or for the purpose of gain and which has a storage capacity of 5,000 or more cubic metres for such toxic or flammable liquid.

6. Any factory engaged in the manufacturing of —

(a) fluorine, chlorine, hydrogen fluoride or carbon monoxide; and

(b) synthetic polymers.

7. Any factory engaged in the manufacturing of pharmaceutical products or their intermediates.

8. Any factory engaged in the manufacturing of semiconductor wafers.

If your organization falls in any of the 

In addition Regulation 9 of the regulation also stipulate the requirement of the duty of the occupier of any workplace specified in the Third Schedule to appoint a workplace safety and health auditor to audit the safety and health management system of the workplace at a frequency as specified in that Schedule.

To learn more about the Workplace Safety and Health (Safety and Health Management System and Auditing) Regulations 2009, check out the Singapore Statues Online