"No occupational health/health & wellbeing/healthy lifestyle initiatives in place"
Who carried out this audit and what was it based on. There is no general legal requirement for OH provision and certainly no requirement for healthy life-style initiatives. This wasn’t organised by a company that supply’s this sort of thing was it?
The only thing that you need OH for as far as H&S in concerned is the provision of health surveillance under Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations and other regs.
The other things are “nice to haves” not legal requirements.

The audit was carried out in March and i joined the company in May so i wasn't involved in it at all. It has been thrown on my desk as the client are asking where we are with the findings.

To be honest, the audit report is awful. I understand the health surveillance requirements under COSHH but i think what he is getting at is that we should be carrying out health promotions and healthy living initiatives and providing things like eyesight tests, cholestoral checks etc. I will look into doing this to some degree but i am going to throw this back at them and tell me where the requirement is.

Before you throw it back it is worth a little look at the offshore occupation health initiatives if you don't have it already...

There is a general opinion that due to an increase in age profile and bariatric (larger) employees offshore, that OH programs will reduce the impact on the medical support...same as onshore really. Targeting cardiac arrest, diabetes and obesity.

http://books.hse.gov.uk/...alogueCode=9780717608867

That is of course assuming that MODU is Mobile Offshore Drilling unit and not Mighty 'Ole Down Under...

We have 12 Wellness initiatives per year, usually around a general topic, this month (Mo-Vember) is Mens Health, last month was Breast Cancer Awareness.

I like this because if you follow the health charities they do have tons of free information that can be printed off from their websites.

There is also an element of funraising too, so its not all one way.

I have OH/Wellness targets to meet, regardless of being law etc, my company says do and I, as an employee just get on with it.

Not law.

Some auditors can be idiots at times.

What were they auditing you against?

I agree with several points made in other postings, viz:
- To align with the ISO approach, an audit should be designed to aid and encourage the auditee towards 'continual improvement'. To plan audits just to check compliance with applicable legislation makes no sense for any professional who truly believes that 'good OSH is good business'.
- The standard(s) against which you are being audited should always be documented, ideally before the audit but, if not, in the resulting report. Comments and recommendations shouldn't just be opinion-based, as perhaps was the case quoted?
- When my organisation carries out health-related audits offshore we do expect to see suitable broadly-based health promotion activities and use the awards standard from Healthy Working Lives, Scotland as our standard. Of course some organisations will choose not to do much, and there's no relevant UK legislation but that doesn't change our audit standard. And of course you don't have to be in Scotland, or to actually apply to HWL for an award in order to use their standard!