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Question 1

Define an audit

Answer 1

An evaluation of a person, organisation, system,

process, enterprise, project or product.

Question 2

Define a safety audit

Answer 2

A core safety management activity providing

a means of identifying potential problems

Question 3

What is an audit function?

Answer 3

To ensure compliance.
Which looks like:
Regulators
• interested in compliance as required by
legislation

Organisation Senior Managers
•interested compliance against regulatory
requirements
•And against organisation’s internal policies,
processes and procedures

Question 4

What is an Gap analysis?

Answer 4

A technique to determine the gap between the current and required or ideal situation

Question 5

What is internal audit?

Answer 5

•Requirement internally generated

•Carried out by employees or third party
providers
•
E.g.: internal audit to check compliance with prescribed
QM procedures

Question 6

Whats an External audit?

Answer 6

•Requirement internally OR externally
generated

•Carried out by an independent agency or body

•E.g.: Board appointed external auditor to check on
financial statement compliance, or a tax office audit, or
CASA audit checking legislative compliance

Question 7

What are the three types of Audits?

Answer 7

Financial Audits,
Compliance Audits
and Operational Audits.

Question 8

What are the three characteristics that the service provider of the audits should display?

Answer 8

• Commitment
• Cognisance
• Compentence

Question 9

In the James reason model what does Commitment mean?

Answer 9

In the face of ever increasing commercial
pressures does the organisation have the will to
make SMS tools work effectively?

Question 10

In the James reason model what does Cognisance mean?

Answer 10

Does the organisation understand the nature of
the ‘safety war’ particularly with regards to the
involvement of human and organisational factors?

Question 11

In the James reason model what does Competence mean?

Answer 11

Does the organisation’s SMS possess the right

tools that are properly understood and utilised?

Question 12

What is Safe?

Answer 12

secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or
risk
•
free from hurt, injury, danger, or risk
•
involving little or no risk of mishap, error, etc

Question 13

what are ethics?

Answer 13

A system of moral principles
•
Branch of philosophy dealing with values relating
to human conduct, with respect to the rightness
or wrongness of certain actions and to the
goodness and badness of the motives and ends of
such actions.

Question 14

What is safe?

Answer 14

• secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk.
• free from hurt, injury, danger, or risk.
• involving little or no risk of mishap, error, etc.