Internal Auditing is an essential tool for managing compliance with health and safety, environmental safety and quality standards. Increasingly these three areas are audited by the same professionals to proliferating standards (e.g. OHSAS 18001 for health and safety, ISO 9001 for quality, ISO 14001 for environment). This book delivers a powerful and proven approach to auditing business-critical risk areas. It covers each of the aspects that need to be taken into account for a successful audit to recognised standards and is an important resource for auditors, managers, health and safety professionals, and anyone with a critical interest in governance and organizational improvement.
Stephen Asbury is Managing Director of Corporate Risk Systems Limited, providing risk management consultancy, training and software. He is a Member of the Council of IOSH and Chair of the IOSH Professional Committee. Stephen has over 20 years' experience as a health, safety and environment practitioner, and a regular contributor to conferences, journals and other publications.
Peter Ashwell is Managing Director of Kingdom Management Limited,an Internal Audit training consultancy which has been servicing multinational clients worldwide for the last 16 years. He is a Chartered Accountant, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management with over 30 years experience in business.
Stephen Asbury (1965-) was born in Burton upon Trent, UK. He holds an MBA with Distinction, is a Six Sigma Green Belt, and is a Fellow of IOSH, IIRSM and IEMA. His first qualification was at law and he worked in a variety of risk management roles in international companies for twelve years prior to a 20+ year career in consultancy. In 2016, he returned to university in London to complete his doctorate. Stephen is a 4-times award winner, including RoSPA Safety Professional of the Year in 1995, IOSH President's Distinguished Service Award in 2010, and PetroSkills Top of Class award in 2014.
Consulting: Stephen was headhunted by Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance in 1995 to become its Head of Liability Consulting. Two years later, he was appointed a Director of the world's largest insurance broker, Aon. In 1999, Stephen founded HSE consulting group CRS and became its Managing Director in 2001. He sold that company to a large insurance group in 2014. His new company, founded 2017, is AllSafe Group Limited.
Experience: Stephen has 35 years safety and risk management experience from assignments in over 60 countries on six continents. Today, he is retained by blue chip organisations based in the UK, the US, and the Middle East.
Service: Stephen was elected to the Council of professional body IOSH in 1998 and served for fourteen years, including nine years as Chair of its Professional Committee. He was presented with the IOSH President's Distinguished Service Award in 2010.
Other public work: In addition to six books, Stephen is the author of ~40 technical papers, journal articles and conference papers on safety and risk management. He speaks regularly at conferences and events around the world, as well as on cruise ships.
Interests: F1 motorsport, scuba diving, NBA, human space flight.