Contents Executive Summary 4 Introduction 5 The OHSAS 18001 standard: A literature review 5 The audit process: challenges and some propositions for improvement 6 Challenges 6 Propositions for improvement 7 Conclusion 8 Bibliography 9

Executive Summary
This report is prepared to provide a brief description about the audit process of OHSAS 18001, which is a framework to effectively manage the Occupational health and safety policies including compliance with the legislation that applies to organization’s activities and identified hazards. As defined the objective of the standard is to have a clear management structure with defined authority and responsibility, clear objectives for improvement, with measurable results and a structured approach to risk assessment (Montero, Araque, and Rey, 2009).This also includes the monitoring of health and safety management failures, auditing of performance and review of policies and objectives according to the standard.
In my previous organization in Bangladesh, we have started working towards qualifying for the OHSAS 18001 certificate and I was responsible as an internal auditor for the process. In this process, I also had the opportunity to work with the external auditor (certification audit). In the auditing process, I have monitored health and safety management failures, auditing of performance and managed to review of policies and objectives as suggested by the external auditor.
In this report, some brief discussion has been made about the literature review about the framework and challenges in the auditing process (internal and external). Lastly, some propositions have been made to improve the quality of the audit process (both internal and external).

Introduction
It is becoming a popular practice in today’s business world that, companies have started to invest in human capital to exceed the demands