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Elevating your safety standards

The Five Star Occupational Health and Safety Audit has been developed by British Safety Council, in collaboration with a wide range of sector and global health and safety experts, measuring your organisation’s occupational health and safety management system against the highest standards of best practice. This audit offers support and guidance to help you achieve and maintain compliance while driving continuous improvement. We believe our unique range of Five Star audits are among the most comprehensive health and safety audits available, delivered by the industry’s leading practitioners.

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Problems we solve

Gain well-deserved recognition for your efforts, backed by validation from a leading independent external body. Our assessment highlights key areas for improvement and provides clear, practical recommendations to boost operational efficiency and strengthen health and safety outcomes.

By achieving a trusted third-party evaluation, you can build greater confidence with investors, stakeholders, and your supply chain. It also enables you to clearly demonstrate your health and safety performance and systems, giving you a strong advantage when completing PQQs and tender submissions.

Understanding your pain

Operating without a clear understanding of your current occupational health and safety performance can put your organisation at unnecessary risk, but that’s exactly where we can help.
Whether you’re facing increasing pressure from regulators, investors, or customers, or navigating business changes like growth and expansion that may impact H&S effectiveness, our approach provides clarity and control.

We support you in demonstrating a strong commitment to OHS to both internal and external stakeholders, and offer a thorough, structured review when it’s needed most, such as following a significant incident. With rising expectations from potential investors, particularly private equity, we help ensure your health and safety standards stand up to scrutiny and inspire confidence.

Raising the bar on safety

More than just an audit, it delivers practical insight and expert guidance to support compliance while helping organisations embed a culture of continuous improvement. Our Five Star audits are widely regarded as some of the most thorough in the field, carried out by experienced practitioners who bring deep, real-world expertise to every assessment.

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Key deliverables

  • Valuable insights, feedback and critical evaluation from your auditor and/or audit, summarised in a closing meeting.
  • A comprehensive report with executive summary, scores and recommendations.
  • A digital certificate of completion as evidence of your audit outcome.
  • Be recognised in the British Safety Council Five Star scheme and have the opportunity to enter the prestigious Honour Awards (subject to achieving a 5-star rating).
  • A support call from your dedicated account manager to help you with any post-audit improvements or questions.
  • Recommended next steps and actions to continue your journey to excellence

Impact measures

See how your organisation can benefit across every level with measurable impacts on financial performance, reputation, operations, compliance, and customer outcomes.

Financial impact: Identify resource inefficiencies and associated cost savings, loss of revenue, reduce operating costs, and environmental management liability penalties.
Reputational impact: Protect your brand value and credibility, and reduce negative coverage. Provide positive updates to internal and external stakeholders, including the ability to include FSESA in sustainability reports
Operational impact: Identify infrastructure and operational gaps that may affect the ability to produce and deliver services, or function (supply chain failure). Identify business continuity risk, allowing for a more structured approach to crisis management. Allows for internal benchmarking to drive competition within the organisation.
Legal & Regulatory impact: Expose potential liabilities and compliance violations, permit and environmental licensing issues, and other non-compliance fines and/or prosecutions. Includes supporting voluntary agreements with supply chain.
Customer/Product impact: Can increase customer satisfaction, and allow your organisation to better meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

 

Driving safer performance

The Five Star Occupational Health and Safety Audit provides a robust, independent evaluation of your health and safety management systems against recognised best practice. It not only helps you understand where you stand, but also offers clear, practical guidance to support compliance and encourage ongoing improvement. Delivered by highly experienced practitioners, our Five Star audits are designed to provide a thorough and insightful assessment that sets a benchmark for excellence in health and safety.

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