My company uses Synergi which would perfectly fulfil all of your requirements (other databases are available and I'm sure are just as good.) You could probably set something up yourself using access or excel, but personnaly, if I had the budget, I'd go for a bespoke package like Synergi. Maybe they will do a trial or something?

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The first part of your question would be answered by (e.g.) Microsoft Project. The second part of your question describes an 'accident database' and there are a fair few of them out there!

Eddy - As with all auditing of an audit process, it tends to be time consuming, the key is in who's time it consumes. In a previous employment (construction industry), we had trained auditors on each site who had to submit audit reports weekly to the HSQE administrator. Non conformance's were highlighted in red, close out of the previous weeks NCR's were the first item on the weekly report, and these were reported to the HSQE Manager (myself), generally for information purposes only. However, anything outstanding by more than a week was investigated by myself and kept 'live' till I closed it out. I also did the periodic audit checks on site visits to ensure compliance to audit procedures. As I said, it was a time consuming process, I reckon I spent 20% of my time on auditing, the admin girl at least twice that, and the actual auditor on site about the same. All in all, the system worked, NCR's were identified, closed out, and improvements made where neccesary, and not once in the 6 years I worked there did we fail any surveillance visits from the certification body.