title: Proper audits require specialist skills.
abstract: The need for, and benefits of, health and safety audits within hospital estates and facilities departments, and the link with the Health Technical Memorandum 00: Best practice guidance for healthcare engineering, are examined by Alan Hambidge, director of risk management consultancy Empathy Environmental Consultants Ltd.
authors.affiliation: Empathy Environmental Consultants Ltd.
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hambidge
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008330:Management Audit / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D017751:Safety Management / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards; D006113:United Kingdom