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Legal Compliance Audit Checklist

by Nigel Martin, from the Community

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Use this comprehensive legal compliance audit checklist to review company policies, roles and responsibilities, and management reviews. Evaluate accident reporting and investigation, emergency planning, fire risk assessment, alarms and extinguishers, and escape routes. Verify electrical safety including EICR and PAT, plus PPE, COSHH, SDS, LEV, legionella controls, asbestos, and DSEAR where applicable. Cover first aid, DSE and manual handling, training and supervision, machinery safety under PUWER and LOLER, lifting equipment, contractor management, vehicles at work, work at height, and housekeeping. Capture evidence, note observations, assign actions, and monitor completion to maintain regulatory compliance across the workplace.

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Legal Compliance Audit Template
This legal compliance audit template helps organizations review key health and safety and risk controls across the workplace. Sections cover policy and management review, accident reporting and RIDDOR, consultation with employees, electrical safety and PAT, emergency and fire safety, first aid, COSHH and LEV, asbestos and legionella, PPE, PUWER and LOLER, contractor and visitor management, vehicles at work, work at height, housekeeping and facilities, pressure systems, and training and supervision. Use it to identify gaps, capture observations, assign corrective actions, and maintain evidence of due diligence for regulatory compliance and audits.
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