PECB Certified ISO 45001 Lead Auditor - ISO-45001-Lead-Auditor Exam Practice Test

Select the two options which describe a disadvantage of using a checklist.

An audit team leader arrives at a fabrication organisation that manufactures stairways to ..certification audit.
At a meeting with the OHSMS Manager the audit finds that the responsibility for worker consultation and participation lies with the managerial team. Select from the options four actions by the managerial team that encourage worker consultation and participation.

In the initial communication by the audit team leader for a certification audit, the OHSMS Manager asks that the audit includes detailed coverage of the OHSMS legislation of the local authority, which has been specified in a recent customer contract.
Which two of the following responses should the audit team leader make?

During a second-party audit at a sawmill, you find that the OHSMS Manager conducted the hazard identification process. In the risk assessment report, hazards were listed as physical hazards, chemical hazards, biological hazards, and psychosocial hazards, with the hazards categorized as low, medium, and high risk to be addressed. The OHSMS Manager did not have an action plan for low and medium risks, saying that they ignored those. He stated that they brought in a health and safety consultant to advise on treatment for the high risks.
When interviewing the OHSMS Manager, the auditor presents a nonconformity relating to potential hazards in the factory if the dust extraction system broke down. The OHSMS Manager said that, if that happened, the agreed planned action is that workers would put masks on.
Select one of the options for how the auditor should respond to this statement.

On behalf of a certification body, you are conducting a combined audit of Shelf-Fit. The organization designs, manufacturing install interiors for retail stores. They employ subcontractors for the installation work.
Representing the ISO 45001 audit, you ask the Purchase Manager about the identification of health and safety hazards for contractors on site. Having previously reviewed the hazards list (HZD-21/11 Rev.3), you found that various health and safety hazards were listed but not were associated with contractor working on-site.
When you ask about the use of contractors, the response is, ''We know that contractors use chemicals, such as glues, paints and vanishes. We trust them since they know more than we do about the safe handling of such issues''. The auditor made the same enquiry to an accompanying member of the health and safety team and was told that chemical safety had never been a problem with the installation process.

Whistlekleen is a national dry cleaning and laundry organization with 50 shops. You are conducting an OHSMS surveillance audit of the head office and are sampling health and safety performance monitoring.
You find that 80 per cent of incident originate from five shops in the same region. Most of these relate to staff and customer feeling unwell due to breathing in the pungent atmosphere. Some required to be hospitalized.
The OHS Manager tells you that these are the oldest shops in the organization. The cleaning equipment emits Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and needs replacing but the organisation cannot afford it at the moment.

An internal auditor of a manufacturer of plastic packaging products for the food industry raised a nonconformity against section 10.2 of ISO 45001 in Report JA202. The nonconformity (NC3) stated: " The level of reported health and safety incidents has increased by 9.7% over the last 12 months. " As the third-party auditor who comes across this nonconformity during a surveillance audit, how would you react? Select one.