251370

Health and Safety Auditing

Course
This course examines issues relating to measuring safety performance in organisations and in health and safety auditing in particular. Emphasis is placed on the use of the commonly utilised management systems audit promoted by the ACC, the Accredited Employer Programme (AEP) audit system. The course also examines other audit frameworks, and critically examines the role of auditing in safety performance evaluation.
Course code

Qualifications are made up of courses. Some universities call these papers. Each course is numbered using 6 digits.

251370
Level

The fourth number of the course code shows the level of the course. For example, in course 219206, the fourth number is a 2, so it is a 200-level course (usually studied in the second year of full-time study).

300-level
Credits

Each course is worth a number of credits. You combine courses (credits) to meet the total number of credits needed for your qualification.

15
Subject
Occupational Health and Safety

Course planning information

General progression requirements

You must complete at least 45 credits from 200-level before enrolling in 300-level courses.

Learning outcomes

What you will learn. Knowledge, skills and attitudes you’ll be able to show as a result of successfully finishing this course.

  • 1 Critically discuss dimensions of health and safety performance and performance measurement parameters.
  • 2 Apply the principles of auditing health and safety practice as an instrument to measure Health and Safety performance.
  • 3 Conduct a health and safety audit of an organisation using appropriate methods, evidence, and professional judgement.
  • 4 Explain and justify audit processes, including ethical, organisational, legal, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and cultural safety considerations.
  • 5 Assess health and safety audit tools and processes against New Zealand health and safety legislation.

Learning outcomes can change before the start of the semester you are studying the course in.

Textbooks needed

There are no set texts for this course.