To start a documentation review at a site select Gather Evidence and then Conduct Interviews in the navigation menu



The Content Page on the right lists a table containing all the sites that must be visited during the audit and the job roles that must be interviewed at each visited site. Each table cell contains a fraction showing how many interviews have been completed relative to the recommended number of interviews for a specific role at each visited site.


To start your first interview click on the role cell in the table that corresponds to the site where the interviewee is located. 





Interview is intended to be anonymous and you should only identify the interviewee by title. The Title field at the top of the page is optional, but is useful for distinguishing between responses from interviewees with the same role and that work at the same site.


The audit questions listed on the Content page are only those that require a response from the selected interviewee Role and all other questions are excluded from the question listing. You can change question lists by changing the Role of the interviewee.


IMPORTANT: Remember, when you are conducting interviews, you are verifying that the system you are auditing is understood by the employees of the business. The best way to do that is through a conversation about policies and procedures, and how employees implement them in their daily activities. To assist you with this the question may includes sample questions.



Expanding the question by clicking on the More link will reveal the question instructions and if provided by the protocol this will including suggested sample questions that can be used as conversation starters. They assist you in determining the employee’s understanding of the content. The conversation that follows helps determine the interviewee’s response to the question.


Based on the employee’s response, summarize your confidential Comments in point form. In this section you are just gathering information, not writing the final report. The comments you add here do not show up in the final audit report, but they can be referenced when deciding what suggestions to make, or what to follow up on during the site observation tour. 


The Comments you enter also appear every time you conduct an interview, so you can collect all your comments about a question in one place, making it easier for you to speak to specifics when you’re completing your findings (see 1 below).


Next to the comments, select the appropriate Response that you received from the employee (see 2 above). There are four options:

  1. Positive,
  2. Negative,
  3. No Comment – this is treated in the same manner as “negative”, and;
  4. Not Asked – Always check with your certifying partner or certification body before skipping questions. As a general rule, all questions must be asked to all interviewees, but there may be exceptions.



IMPORTANT: The Question is not applicable checkbox (see below) is used to remove question from the entire audit. It is equivalent to marking a question as not applicable on in the Audit Results section.  


When the interview is complete, click Done to return to the summary page. Notice that the interview table is updated accordingly.



Enter Multiple Interviews

In some cases, it may not be practical to record interview results on your computer while conducting interviews. For example, if you are at a remote site, you may need to interview employees in your vehicle. It may be more practical for you to record your results on paper.  Then, when you return to your home office, these paper results must be entered. Rather than entering the results individually, you can use the bulk data entry option to enter the combined results of multiple interviews.


To make a single data entry for multiple employee interviews first change the interview Quantity to represent the number of interviews that are being entered. You will notice that the answer column is replaced by two columns:

  1. The first represents the number of positive responses and 
  2. The second the total number of employees that were asked to answer the question.


For example:

  • If you asked the question to five workers, and only four had positive responses record 4 out of  5. 
  • If you asked the question to five workers, and one worker had no comment and 3 had positive responses record 3 out of  5.


Employee Attributes and Interview Questions

Employees may belong to a groups (e.g. Joint Health and safety committee or first aid workers) and these groups may be required to answer questions in addition standard role based questions. When interviewing such employees select the attributes to add these additional group specific questions for the interviewee.



When entering bulk interviews for interviewees in a group you must always group interviews based on the questions asked before entering them. This grouping must be done on a role and interviewee attribute basis. For example, you must enter bulk interview results separately for:

  • Workers and,
  • Workers that are also part of the Join Health and Safety Committee (JHSC)


Upon completion of the interviews, you will observe the attribute section as "completed" 



Conduct Interviews > Results

The results of all complete interviews can be viewed by clicking on the Results tab. 



This presents all the interview responses in a single table and gives you a holistic view of the entire audit and insight into the areas that did well and areas that are an opportunity for continuous improvement. 


There are columns displaying each conducted interview and the Response recorded for each question. The Results column,

lists the total percentage of positive indicators for each question.