These are generally on-site verification activities of a process or quality system to ensure compliance with requirements be it industrial or statutory. In our application, an inspection is a ‘’do act’’ to assess change to an anticipated result while an audit is a process of checking that procedure requirements and obligations have been or are being followed.
In this regard we inspect or audit to identify or determine whether the work environment is conducive for workers to maintain their rights at work place and also determine work related risks in terms of whether the work equipment can be safely operated, adjusted and maintained with any deviation detected and remedied before it results into health or safety risk or hazard. Ideally the aim is to ensure that occupation safety and health administration (OSHA) at work places is sound and conducive to maintain workers’ rights at places of work.