For dis­cus­sion

Title: Intern­al audit Review – Health and Safety

Pre­pared by: Dav­id Camer­on, Deputy Chief Exec­ut­ive and Dir­ect­or of Cor­por­ate Ser­vices (Cov­er Paper) Eliza­beth Young & Stephanie Hume, Azets (Intern­al Audit Report)

Pur­pose

This paper presents the intern­al audit review of the Park Authority’s Health and Safety pro­cesses, pro­ced­ures and intern­al controls.

Recom­mend­a­tions

The Com­mit­tee is asked to:

a) Review the find­ings of the intern­al audit report.

b) Endorse the man­age­ment responses to the intern­al audit recom­mend­a­tions for improve­ment to controls.

Sup­port­ing information

The intern­al aud­it­ors have com­pleted their review of the Park Authority’s pro­cesses and pro­ced­ures for health and safety with­in the organ­isa­tion. This review was under­taken as part of the approved ²⁰²³⁄₂₄ intern­al audit pro­gramme. The intern­al audit report is presen­ted in full at Annex 1 to this paper.

The report iden­ti­fies six recom­mend­a­tions for action to fur­ther improve the cur­rent con­trol envir­on­ment. The report has been wel­comed by man­age­ment as a help­ful con­tri­bu­tion to our work on devel­op­ing our health and safety sys­tems. All recom­mend­a­tions have been accep­ted by man­age­ment and responses provided in the attached report.

Dav­id Camer­on, 16 Novem­ber 2023