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A health and safety audit form that marks each requirement as conforms, nonconformity or observation across walkways and exits, first aid, fire equipment and records. Findings are graded with evidence, a corrective action, an owner and a target date, and both sides sign at the closing meeting. The form works out the share conforming for each section and the site, a red, amber or green result against your target and the change since the last audit, so sites audited on the same form compare like for like. Every question is listed below, and you can fill the live form in on this page.
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A safety audit checklist should state the scope and the criteria the site is audited against, then record a result for each requirement with the evidence seen. Each nonconformity needs a corrective action, an owner and a target date. HSE says larger organisations should have formal procedures for auditing and reporting health and safety performance. Close with a meeting so the auditee sees the findings first.
Last updated . Facts checked by the SiteSurvey team on 5 October 2026 against regulation 5 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, HSE's plan, do, check, act: Check and article 14 of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (emergency routes and exits).
Walk the site with the form on a phone and mark each requirement as it is checked. The form works out the share conforming for each section and the whole site, gives a red, amber or green result against the target you set and the change since the last audit, and counts the corrective actions still open by grade. Every site audited on the form is scored the same way, so the results line up when you compare them.
Each requirement checked counts once and Not checked is left out. Green meets your target, Amber is up to 15 points below it, and Red is further below or has a major nonconformity. These are the form's bands for comparing sites, not a legal standard.
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Enter the last audit's result and the form shows the change in points. Walkways and exits, first aid, fire equipment and records each get their own share, and the lowest one is named, so you know where to start.
How calculated fields work →
Findings are counted as major, minor or observation, and each corrective action shows as open until a closed date goes in. An open major brings up a red note before the closing meeting ends.
How calculated fields work →Film the walk from where people work to the final exit with Walk Cam, so the report shows the route as it was on the day, alongside the photos attached to each finding.
How Walk Cam works →An internal audit of a fictional distribution warehouse: 72% conforming against a 90% target, down 6 points on the last audit, with a struck racking upright offloaded and tagged as a major nonconformity, an extinguisher missed at its annual service and gaps in the monthly checks. Open it as a filled-in form, or switch to a blank copy and try it yourself.
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Want to see one filled in? See a completed safety audit report (PDF), made by SiteSurvey from a fictional site visit.
For teams
Paper or a spreadsheet works for one site. When several sites or managers do the same check, SiteSurvey keeps every result in one place.
Your team completes the safety audit on site in the SiteSurvey app on iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets. The project name and address fill in for them, it works without signal, and it syncs when the device is back online with photos kept against the question they answer.
Customers and subcontractors do not need the app: send them a link and they can fill it in from any browser.
Workplace audit with walkways, first aid, fire equipment and records, findings and corrective actions, closing meeting. 8 sections and 119 questions. Follow-up questions and guidance appear only when an answer calls for them, so the person on site never sees the ones that do not apply.
This is a starting point, not a fixed form. Once it is in your SiteSurvey account you can reword any question, add or remove questions, sections and answer options, and add your own logo, so it fits the way your team works and the jobs you do.
Add this form to a project in SiteSurvey and it fills in what the project already knows, so nobody on site retypes it and every form on the job uses the same names. Anything filled in can still be changed.
What is being audited, against what, and by whom.
Filled in from the project in SiteSurvey.
The procedures, legal duties and guidance the site is being checked against.
Walk each route to its exit. Record a result for each requirement.
Optional. Film a guided walk-through on the SiteSurvey app.
Open the box. Check the contents and the dates.
Check access, the gauge and the service label on each one you sample.
Ask to see the record. A record you have not seen is not evidence.
Counted from the results you recorded in sections 2 to 5.
Leave blank to use 90.
From the last audit of this home or site on this form, so the trend shows in the report.
Grade each finding and agree it with the auditee before you leave.
For example E3.
Set by your audit programme.
A completed safety audit report, made by SiteSurvey from a fictional site visit: every answer, the photos, the guidance that applied and the sign-off, ready to send as a PDF.
An inspection looks at conditions on the day. This audit also checks the site against stated criteria and asks to see records, such as the first aid needs assessment, the fire risk assessment review and the actions from the previous audit. HSE describes periodic audits as checking how well management structures and risk controls are working.
Each finding is a major nonconformity, a minor nonconformity or an observation. A major one also records what was done to make the area safe and who was told. Major and minor findings both need a corrective action, an owner and a target date, and an observation records an improvement where the requirement is already met. The form counts the conforms, nonconformities and observations, works out the share conforming by section and overall, and counts the corrective actions still open. Any open major nonconformity makes the result red.
Regulation 5 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 requires every employer to have arrangements for the planning, organisation, control, monitoring and review of their preventive and protective measures. An employer with five or more employees must record those arrangements. An audit is one way to show that monitoring and review happens.
It checks that routes to fire exits are clear, exits are signed and exit doors open easily from inside. In England and Wales, the Fire Safety Order says routes to emergency exits and the exits themselves must be kept clear where that is needed to keep people safe. It also says emergency doors must not be fastened so that they cannot be easily and immediately opened by anyone who needs them in an emergency.
The form's guidance is that an auditor should not audit their own work. If an internal auditor works in the area being audited, the form asks for that to be recorded and for the report to say how someone else will check the findings.
Yes. The closing section records whether a closing meeting was held, the auditee's response and any disputed findings, then takes the auditor's and the auditee's signatures on the device. In the SiteSurvey app it works offline, with photos attached to each finding.
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