A piece of safety to ponder over your weekend…
Auditing is NEVER about the number of findings.
We just experienced a facility with no PSM/RMP elements in place, and they have three (3) covered processes. With nothing to audit, they ended up with less than 25 findings (but they are massive findings that will take years to close).
A sister facility we audited in January with an advanced PSM/RMP management system had 70 findings and is light years ahead of the facility that has yet to put anything in place and with only 20 findings.
But you hand out the draft report at the audit closing, and 9 out of 10 managers start counting the findings.
IT AIN’T A NUMBERS GAME; if it is in your business, you’re doing it WRONG!
