Medical Equipment Manufacturing Facility, Thailand
SLP Environmental was appointed to conduct and report a detailed Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Compliance Audit at a medical equipment manufacturing facility located in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand. The audit was commissioned by the client’s corporate headquarters as part of its corporate HSE assurance process.
The primary objective of the EHS audit was to assess whether operations and activities at the Facility were i) in compliance with Thailand’s HSE regulatory requirements and the clients corporate best practice standards, and where non-compliances were identified, to ii) recommend corrective actions along with the associated costings, timeframes and assignment of responsibilities to rectify the non conformances.
As a first stage in the assessment process the Facility management were issued with an Applicability Screening Questionnaire (ASQ). Once the ASQ was returned, SLP prepared a tailored Documentation Request List (DRL), and provided a secure virtual data room (VDR) into which the Facility could upload the requested documents. Once relevant documentation had been reviewed, SLP conducted a three day onsite audit led by an international Lead EHS Auditor supported by a National EHS Auditor, which comprised of Facility inspections, interviews with key informants and a review of information held at the Facility but not uploaded to the VDR.
The onsite audit concluded with a Close-Out Meeting for Facility management, in which key findings were discussed.
Following completion of the onsite audit, SLP prepared a draft EHS regulatory audit report for the Facility which provided a synopsis of requirements associated with each identified regulatory non-compliance (NC), the legal citation, NC root cause and prioritization for close- out based on risk assessment. The report included a Corrective Actions (CAP) to address each NC, a timeline for its implementation and the completion indictor. The report also included photographs and figures to illustrate findings.
The draft report was issued to corporate HQ, and once clients comments were received and addressed, the finalised report was prepared and issued.