Vehicle Maintenance Systems Audits (VMSA)
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FTA's Vehicle Maintenance Systems Audits provide independent auditing of both the systems and the procedures you have in place to deal with your vehicle maintenance arrangements, using the recommendations in VOSA's Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness as the benchmark. FTA has been accredited by UKAS for its Vehicle Maintenance Systems Audits. |  |
You will benefit from
- a comprehensive report breaking down your systems into seven key areas
- best practice tips and invaluable advice for determining which areas of your operation require special consideration to avoid non-compliance
- reports that identify fully compliant areas and those that require prompt remedial attention
- graphical representation of the data collated, allowing you to see which areas of your operation are compliant or non-compliant
What does a typical audit include?
The following areas of your systems and records are examined:
- Daily walk around checks - including whether sufficient instructions/training has been given to drivers and whether they appear to be carrying out checks correctly
- Driver defect reporting - including whether defects are being recorded, how accurately drivers are completing reports and what percentage of defect reports correctly record the remedial action taken
- Safety inspections - including checks on the planned programme for carrying out safety inspections, its compliance with VOSA recommendations, and whether the programme had been adhered to over the period covered by the audit. Inspection reports will be checked to determine whether they correspond with the current VOSA Inspection Manual and whether they have been correctly completed
- Maintenance facilities - including recording who undertakes inspection, maintenance and repair, checks on the equipment available for vehicle maintenance and the number of staff involved in the maintenance operation
- Quality monitoring - including reporting on who is responsible for undertaking quality control of your maintenance systems and whether annual test pass/failure rates and/or prohibitions (PG9s) are monitored
- Records - including checks on availability, filing and retention of periodic inspection reports and driver defect reports
- Vehicle condition - will be included in the audit if FTA's roadworthiness inspections have been set-up to be a part of the quality monitoring process. The acid test of any maintenance system is the condition of the vehicles. It is therefore essential that roadworthiness inspections are carried out to give you a full picture of your maintenance systems
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