This code

should be read by:

Auditing
Senior management teams across the STFC, those
undertaking SHE audits and those likely to be
audited.
Inspection ( Safety tours )
All STFC staff and tenants who undertake or are
involved in safety tours.

STFC SHE Group

Corporate Services
 Safety, Health and
Environment (SHE) Group

Introduction to
SHE Code 30
“SHE Auditing
and Inspection”
STFC SHE Group
Corporate Services
 Why undertake
SHE Audits and Safety Tours?
• Auditing and inspection (Safety
Tours) are critical elements of the
STFC SHE Management System.
• They:
– provide management with feedback on the
implementation of STFC SHE Policy & Codes;
– maintain the profile of SHE management and
workplace safety & housekeeping;
– identify how codes can be better implemented,
making sure that their recommendations
are acted upon.
• Audit and inspection are key aspects of the STFC’s Corporate
Governance framework
STFC SHE Group
Corporate Services
 Key features
• Establishes new requirement for a coherent
STFC wide - two level SHE audit programme -
approved by the STFC SHE Committee:
– Compliance audits - “Are we following the codes and
can they be improved?”, all codes every 3 years; and
– System audit – “Are we doing what we should be
doing, is system working as a whole – delivering
STFC expectations”, undertaken 4 yearly.
• Formally establishes the current Safety Tour
programmes under Departmental Directors.
STFC SHE Group
Corporate Services
 Key points
• Read that part of the code relevant to you
• Auditing
– Risk based compliance audit programme, using trained and
independent auditors – internal & external – objectively
based across all STFC sites, programme and
recommendations monitored by SHE Group.
– System audit undertaken by independent external experts.
– Results reported to those audited, STFC management - EB
and OB, and Council & Audit Committee.
• Safety Tours
– Department risk based programmes, recommendations
monitored by Department – encourages cross auditing by
managers, using Trade Union Safety Representatives
• SHE Enterprise to store and manage audits, tours and
their recommendations
STFC SHE Group
Corporate Services
 SHE Training
• 1/2 day ‘Safety tour training’ is available for those
new to safety tours, and for those undertaking
auditing a 1 day SHE auditor course is planned.
• To book this training contact your local SHE training
contacts: DL/RAL 8288; SO 2061; UKATC 8325
• Further questions should be directed to SHE Group
- Graeme Finlan, DL, 3147, RAL, 6249
- Mark Roberts, DL, 3283
- Matt Dickson, RAL, 5329
Or your Departmental Safety Contact STFC SHE Group
Corporate Services