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OSHA’S VOLUNTARY SELF-AUDIT POLICY 2
In an attempt to ensure a workplace that is free from known hazards, OSHA has
encouraged employers to review themselves and correct any potential hazards they identify.
However, employers do not trust the manner in which these audit reports are handled, and this
prompted OSHA to create the Voluntary Self-Audit Policy, whose purpose is to assist in
identifying health and safety hazards, and ensuring regulatory compliance. This policy is
intended to give an appropriate, positive treatment that is in agreement with the value that self-
audits have for the health and safety compliance efforts of the employer, while still recognizing
that access to necessary information is essential to the Secretary of Labor’s enforcement and
inspection duties under the Act (Bailey, 2008).
The scope of an audit varies from a single issue or work area to broad spectrum audits
covering the whole firm. A major thing to have in mind when outlining the scope of an audit is
that it must not go beyond the capacity for an instant response to correct deficiencies (Bailey,
2008).
There are various provisions of this policy. Firstly, the policy states that voluntary self-
audits will not be regularly asked for during the beginning of an inspection, and such reports will
not be utilized as a way identifying hazards in which inspection activity will focus. Secondly, the
policy explains that a citation will not be issued for a violative condition discovered via
voluntary self-audit and corrected before the start of OSHA inspection if the company has also
carried out suitable steps to avoid a reoccurrence of the same condition. Thirdly, the policy
contains the safe harbor provision which states that OSHA will not treat the violative condition
discovered in the self-audit report as a willful violation if the employer is responding in good
faith and OSHA also identifies the same violation in their inspection. Lastly, the program

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Running head: OSHA’S VOLUNTARY SELF-AUDIT POLICY OSHA’S Voluntary Self-Audit Policy Name Institutional Affiliation 1 OSHA’S VOLUNTARY SELF-AUDIT POLICY 2 In an attempt to ensure a workplace that is free from known hazards, OSHA has encouraged employers to review themselves and correct any potential hazards they identify. However, employers do not trust the manner in which these audit reports are handled, and this prompted OSHA to create the Voluntary Self-Audit Policy, whose purpose is to assist in identifying health and safety hazards, and ensuring regulatory compliance. This policy is intended to give an appropriate, positive treatment that is in agreement with the value that self audits have for the health and safety compliance efforts of the employer, while still recognizing that access to necessary information is essential to the Secretary of Labor’s enforcement and inspection duties under the Act (Bailey, 2008). The scope of an audit varies from a single issue or work area to broad spectrum audits covering the whole firm. A major thing to have in mind when outlining the scope of an audit is that it must not go beyond the capacity for an instant response to corre ...
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