Looks like a good basic plan. Some of the challenges you'll face are: - Consistent approach. As it's a 'massive project', there will presumably be more than one person carrying out the site visits? So you need to consider: a proforma for their reports; ensuring a consistent approach, so the auditors will need some joint training. - Documents vs reality. In my experience it would be sensible to have 2 separate stages: 1. Review Corporate-level documents for completeness, perhaps including some site-level checks where the Corporate documents say there should be something specific at each operating site. 2. (Only if needed) More detailed audits to assess whether the documents are implemented consistently across the organisation. Again from my experience, if there's a legal requirement to have an HSE-MS, internal monitoring and audit should be included, so for initial benchmarking all you need to do is ask to see the Corporate-level audit plan and recent results, and that will tell you whether anything is in place and, if so, what sorts of operational gaps are being identified. - Alignment between the practices for H, S and E hazards and controls. Health is often the 'poor relation', with what is in place being largely reactive, rather than a proper MS linked to continual improvement. The OGP Guide on Health Risk Assessment provides a sound approach (can be downloaded from the OGP website). - Public vs worker hazards, especially for power distribution and drinking water. Both need to be included. Also gas distribution is usually regarded as a utility, but isn't listed in your scope. My only Middle East experience of utilities was some years ago in Qatar, and there were then some very significant public safety/emergency response issues associated with major gas pipelines, partly due to urban developments since the lines were constructed.

Thanks a lot for the great feedback, seems like I am on the right track. While it's a Friday night but I am preparing the strategy for the study as we speak to present it to the client and make sure we're all on the same page! imwaldra just to answer you, gas is not currently under the utilities sector regulator, it comes under the Oil and Gas regulator which have their own laws and are sort of untouchable at the moment.