COR Internal Auditor Training

• Complete your organization's internal COR Maintenance Audit
• Learn the basic concepts of auditing an occupational health & safety (OHS) Program
• Learn how to perform an internal gap analysis of your company's OHS Program
• Fulfill your annual OHS training entitlement as part of the Joint Occupational Health & Safety Committee (JOHSC)
• Work towards completing your professional development requirements as a health & safety professional

This course includes approximately 15 hours of training, 7.5 online and 7.5 in-person, and it provides:

• an overview of the COR program;
• elements and methodology of the COR Audit process;
• how to prepare for a COR Audit, including the Pre-Audit Meeting;
• how to conduct a COR Audit and collect data (e.g. reviewing documentation, observing the workplace & interviewing employees);
• how to use the COR Audit Tool (e.g. scoring, writing notes);
• how to write and submit a completed Audit Report; and
• post-audit follow-up activities.

The in-person session is preceded by an online assignment and exam, which must be completed one week prior to the classroom session. This preparation is designed to give everyone in the session a common base of knowledge about the COR process, and to establish an understanding of the opportunities and challenges their own organization may face in the COR-certification process.

The course costs $149 plus GST and includes a continental breakfast, lunch, access to the online portion, and hard copy materials during the in-person portion.

Space is limited and is available on a first-come-first-served basis. We recommend that you submit your registration as soon as possible to reserve a place in the class. If the dates below do not work for you, please contact us with a request to add you to a waitlist for future sessions.

The COR Internal Auditor Training takes place approximately every couple months, with the next session being offered on:

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Time: 9:00am - 4:30pm
Location: go2HR Office, 450 - 505 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC

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Contact the go2HR Industry Health & Safety Team to be notified when future sessions are open for registration.

Upon completion of the training session, Student Auditors are required to perform a Student Audit on their own organization within the following 12 months. The scope of the Student Audit should cover all operations of the company. In some cases, and subject to prior approval from go2HR, the Student Audit may be limited to one part of the company, depending on the size and complexity of the organization.

Prior to beginning on-site audit activities, a Notice of Audit Activity must be submitted to go2HR (at least 2 weeks prior to the Student Audit).

Once the Student Audit has been performed, the Student Auditor must submit a Student Audit Report to go2HR for evaluation, which should include:

• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Executive Summary
• Organizational Chart
• Scoring Summary
• COR Audit Tool, Notes, Scores & Recommendations Minutes from Pre-Audit and Post-Audit Meetings

If the company is not COR-certified, the Student Audit will be considered  a gap analysis of the OHS program. Information gained during this process will help the organization to prepare for the Certification Audit. If the company is already COR-certified, a successful Student Audit report covering the entire organization can be used as the company's annual Maintenance Audit.

If the company has a single Student Auditor, then that person must perform an audit of the whole scope of the company. If the company has more than one Student Auditor, then the students must divide the company into logical portions and each perform a full audit on their assigned portion. After each Student Audit has successfully passed through the Quality Assurance process, the auditors must then combine their reports into a single report to satisfy the annual COR Maintenance Audit requirements.

Once a COR Internal Auditor is certified by go2HR, the certification is valid for three years.

To be eligible for re-approval of certification after the three-year period, all auditors are required to perform two Maintenance Audits and complete at least seven hours of safety - or audit-related education and training, as outlined in the COR Policies and Procedures Manual. Throughout the year, go2HR offers a number of online training (e.g. OHS Program Fundamentals), webinars (e.g.  OHS Webinars), and in-person training and events (e.g. OHS Roundtables and the OHS Summit). Participation in these education and training initiatives will count towards the seven-hour requirement. Auditors may also apply in writing to go2HR to have relevant training and education provided by other agencies applied toward their seven-hour requirement. It is an auditor's responsibility to complete the two Maintenance Audits and seven hours of relevant education and training and to report these to go2HR using the Annual Internal Auditor Declaration Form.