Safety Audit & Gap Assessments

Identify, mitigate, and optimize environmental, health, and safety (EHS) compliance and best practices for all facilities across your business.

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Identifying, mitigating, and optimizing EHS regulatory compliance and best practices for your highest-risk facilities or across your business.

Our audits and gap assessments are customized, scalable, and flexible. They typically include a facility walk-through, records review, staff interviews, an assessment debrief, and a draft report.

We provide a prioritized snapshot of findings by risk level (high, moderate, low). This helps you focus budget and staff, and show progress against current challenges and deadlines from management and stakeholders. Our team works with you to uncover vulnerabilities and opportunities within your program.

What you gain:

Conducting a gap assessment: Visibility into how your facilities, operations, safety, and environmental program elements align with the obligations of critical EHS laws, regulations, ordinances, and best practices.
Evaluating your existing EHS program: Clarity on how training, document control, incident management, and communication policies support and track compliance.
Recommending prioritized actions: A clear understanding of findings and prioritized corrective actions to improve compliance and reduce risk.

Consider an audit or gap assessment when:

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Your organization or function is experiencing change.
You have previously received regulatory citations or violations.
Acquisition or integration of business entities, facilities, processes, operations, or systems.
Challenging business conditions, budget changes, re-org, or headcount shifts.
Not meeting expectations of current EHS programs.
Experiencing unexpected injuries, illnesses, or emerging risks.
In preparation for your next corporate audit or due diligence assessment.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions about safety audit and gap assessments

A gap assessment is a structured review that compares your current practices and controls against regulatory requirements and recognized best practices to identify gaps that could expose the business to risk.
A safety audit assessment is a systematic examination of your safety management system, site conditions, and work practices to verify compliance with laws and guidelines, and to confirm that hazards are identified, controlled, and monitored.
Safety gap analysis focuses specifically on where your safety program falls short versus applicable rules and best practices. The outcome is a ranked list of shortfalls and the actions needed to close them.
Prepare by ensuring leadership commitment, up-to-date training, accurate records, documented procedures, routine inspections, prompt corrective actions, worker participation, and evidence that you monitor performance and improve over time.
A gap checklist is a practical list of criteria and questions used during an assessment to compare current conditions against required elements, helping auditors and site teams verify what is in place and what is missing.
Planning: Scope confirmation, schedule, and document request list.

On-site or virtual review: Walk-throughs, interviews, and sampling.

Evidence review: Policies, permits, training, inspections, incidents, and corrective actions.

Debrief: Preliminary findings and quick wins.

Report: Risk-ranked findings, root causes, and corrective actions with timelines and responsible roles.

Follow-up: Coaching and verification of closure.
Maintain a current inventory of hazards, controls, and permits.

Keep training matrices and records current and easy to retrieve.

Standardize procedures and make them accessible to workers.

Track incidents, near-misses, and corrective actions to closure.

Perform routine self-inspections using a concise gap checklist.

Engage employees in hazard reporting and toolbox talks.

Document management reviews and continuous improvement efforts.

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As your partner in progress, we'll work with you to help you build a safer business, society, and world.

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