Free PECB ISO-45001-Lead-Auditor Exam Dumps Questions & Answers

What is the definition of the term ' audit ' as per clause 3.32 of ISO 45001:2018?

• A.A document that outlines safety procedures and guidelines
• B.A legal requirement to comply with health and safety standards
• C.An evaluation of the effectiveness of health and safety measures
• D.A systematic process to assess the risks in a workplace

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.

• A.Defend the court case and await the legal outcome.
• B.Select the three best options for how this should be handled by the organisation through its OHSMS.
• C.Investigate changing the cleaning process to use chemicals with safe VOC content.
• D.When reviewing the nonformity report files, you find the organization is facing a legal dispute with the Health and Safety Agency over multiple breaches of OHAandS legislation.
• E.Apologise to the Agency and advise that corrective action will be taken within 15 days.
• F.Give an explanation to the Agency of what went wrong.
• G.Monitor VOC emissions to ensure compliance with safe limits.
• H.On raising the matter with senior management, you are told that there are plans to replace the equipment in these shops over the next five years.
• I.Offer to compensate employees and customers for possible health implications.
• J.Conduct an internal enquiry to establish who is to blame.
• K.Advise that the faulty equipment will be replaced within the next two years.

An auditor of a manufacturer of plastic packaging products for the food industry found a nonconformity in an internal audit report raised against section 10.2 of ISO 45001 in Report IA202. The nonconformity (NC3) stated: " The level of reported health and safety incidents has increased by 9.7% over the last 12 months. This included an increase in reported accidents. " Against this background, the third-party audit team found more than twenty minor nonconformities during the audit, which they agreed should be combined into one major nonconformity against clause 4.4 of ISO 45001. " The organisation has failed to demonstrate that it is maintaining and continually improving a health and safety management system. " Select two options which would represent acceptable corrective actions for the nonconformity.

• A.Union representatives of the workers were invited to attend the OH and S management meetings.
• B.Staff from departments with nonconformities were given regular OH and S safety training sessions during their daily toolbox talks.
• C.OH and S champions were appointed in each department to report near misses and incidents in the OHSMS.
• D.External consultants were appointed to conduct a gap analysis of the OHSMS and report on the gaps found.
• E.Top management initiated a comprehensive review of the internal and external issues to decide on actions that could lead to improving the performance of the OHSMS.
• F.Top Management developed and is leading a programme to promote an effective culture of support for the OHSMS.

You are the OH and S manager in an organisation that makes plastic toys using injection moulding machines.
You are currently training three new internal auditors who will be responsible for carrying out first- and second-party audits on behalf of your organisation. You ask them to identify which of the following statements about grading first and/or second-party nonconformities are correct.
Identify which three of the following are true:

• A.It is acceptable for the organisation to grade its nonconformities quantitively (e.g. 1 to 5) if it so wishes.
• B.ISO 19011 recommends top management grade nonconformities because they are the ones who control the budgets needed to pay for any corrective action.
• C.Second-party audit teams must adopt the grading system used by the auditee they are auditing to ensure a common understanding of the severity of nonconformities.
• D.Any grading of nonconformities should recognise the risk the nonconformity presents to the organisation.
• E.The grading of a nonconformity must be changed at the closing meeting if additional documented information is provided.
• F.The grading of a nonconformity must be agreed with the individual(s) managing the audit programme.
• G.Additional grading categories must be agreed with the auditee before the closing meeting.
• H.Grading of nonconformities is an option available to organisations.

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

• A.Helping with sampling of evidence
• B.Not varying from the checklist when necessary
• C.Noting down evidence details
• D.Assisting with starting an interview
• E.Using the same checklist for every audit without review
• F.Ensuring relevant audit trails are followed