Audit in Occupational Health: 12

Closing the Audit Loop

This resource has shown how audit topics can be selected and how their structure, process and outcome can be audited. An example of how all of these modalities of audit can be applied to one particular topic (health surveillance for respiratory sensitisers) features in the previous page and in Occupational Health Review 1995, issue no 55. However once all this is said and done the audit loop must be closed. A clear consensus must be reached on:-

The major shortcoming(s) identified by the audit.
How these shortcomings are to be remedied

By whom?
By what means?
By when?

How the remedial steps are to be evaluated?

A repetition of the original audit?
A different audit method?

What is the next weak link to be audited?

How?
By whom?
When?

All the above must be agreed and documented in such a way that it can be followed as an "audit trail".

This page is:
http://www.agius.com/hew/audit

You may also wish to access the following URL:
http://www.agius.com/hew/resource/quality.htm

References:

Quality and Audit in Occupational Health, Report of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, Royal College of Physicians of London, ISBN 1-86016-000-X, 1995.

Audit is simply one tool for the achieving of quality in Occupational Health. Consider in what context it should operate. Make some notes and then go to the next page.

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