Audits, Inspections, and Corrective Actions

Audits and inspections are essential processes for assessing compliance status and revealing potential EH&S issues. A structured auditing program, backed by an enterprise management tool, enables an organization to reduce risk by ensuring conformance with EH&S's policies, assessing effectiveness of procedures, and communicating information to management.

TrackWise Audit and Inspection Management

TrackWise is a flexible and fully-configurable enterprise quality management system, which enables your organization to automate and improve its audit and inspection management processes. TrackWise consolidates disconnected systems and improves control by managing all audits and inspections, as well as any resulting audit findings and corrective actions, using a single, centralized web-based system.

TrackWise provides secure access-based permissions, which may be established based on audit/inspection type, as well as by employee role, to limit exposure of sensitive data. Concurrently, the system provides a collaborative framework that brings visibility to EH&S issues so they can be resolved before they lead to injuries, fines, or lawsuits.

Challenge	TrackWise Solution
Creating a proactive audit preparation process and ensuring audits and inspections are completed per policy and on-time	TrackWise's 24/7 business rules engine automatically alerts EH&S personnel when audits or inspections are required, based on pre-defined schedules.
Managing and standardizing questionnaires and checklists to increase consistency and efficiency	The TrackWise AuditManager™ enables auditors to manage an on-line audit library of templates. Templates may be copied and used for specific evaluations. Questionnaires and checklists can vary in detail, and may include a "yes/no" format, narrative responses, scores, and findings.
Increasing accountability and visibility	The TrackWise Dashboard allows users to view, organize and perform their assigned tasks. Managers are provided with a real-time overview of upcoming audits as well as assignments and status reports of all discrepancies for their departments.
Increasing productivity and controlling process	Automated electronic workflow ensures compliance with the audit or inspection process and reduces time spent locating and updating paper documents.
Flexibility to conduct online and offline audits for different areas	Checklists or questionnaires may be completed online via a web browser, or may be exported to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to be completed offline.
Evaluating risk using audits and inspection reports	Authorized personnel may generate reports that identify trends based on any input criteria, such as facility, risk level, problem type, or regulation.
Flexibility to adhere to different processes for different audit types	TrackWise is a fully configurable system, which enables your organization to establish an unlimited number of forms, processes, business rules, and security groups to meet the requirements of as many audit processes as necessary.
Escalation of high impact or high risk audit findings	TrackWise's built-in 24/7 business rules engine issues automatic alerts and escalates audit findings based on pre-defined risk criteria.
Generating accurate reports on a pre-scheduled and as-needed basis for management review and regulatory compliance	Reporting tools enable users to generate customizable reports based on any criteria. TrackWise generates and distributes AutoReports™ (emailed as PDF attachments), which enable the controlled distribution of information to recipients inside or outside of the company.
Reducing exposure risk resulting from sensitive data	TrackWise provides secure access-based permissions based on audit/inspection type, as well as employee role, to limit exposure of sensitive data.
Ensuring corrective and preventive actions are completed and are effective	After audit or inspection findings have been reported, TrackWise automates corrective and preventive action workflow steps, ensuring proper plan creation, approval, and implementation.