3. ARAMIS audit
3.1. Audit support
TheARAMISaudit support consists of the following components:
1. an audit manual;
2. audit protocols;
3. a support tool.
The audit manual explains the general reasoning behind the
audit and its scope. It provides an outline of the audit procedure
including an audit strategy, team composition, lists of
people to interview and of documents to review. The most
important element of this part of the audit though is the mapping
procedure, which describes the translation that has to be
made of the company’s specific safety management system
to the normative system of the ARAMIS audit. This is quite
an important task because through this mapping process the
people who will be involved in the audit are to be determined
and also what will be required of them. The manual concludes
with a description of the way audit findings should be scored.
At the moment the audit does not have clear-cut assessment
rules, only very global ones (see below). In addition, templates
are provided for the primary feedback to the company
on the last day of the audit.