Internal audits are a fact of life for many environment, health and safety professionals -- especially those working for large companies. I recently had a discussion with a long-time Phylmar client about internal safety audits. There is a lot of guidance and advice available on how to prepare for such audits and how to create corrective action plans to respond to audit findings. What I found most interesting in the discussion with our client, however, was the cost of managing findings. As a result, I’d like to offer some thoughts on why and how to reduce the sheer number of audit findings while the audit is underway.