HIR Audit 101: Compliance, Best Practice and Transformation

HIR Audit 101: Compliance, Best Practice and Transformation

Ensuring compliance with labour laws and workplace policies is a fundamental responsibility of every HR and IR professional. A Human Resource and Industrial Relations (HIR) Audit provides a systematic examination of an organisation’s HR and IR policies, practices, and procedures.

This training will equip HR and IR professionals, Internal Auditors, and Business Leaders with practical tools to identify risks, uncover gaps, and seize opportunities for improvement. By mastering audit techniques, participants will strengthen organisational compliance, build trust in employee relations, and drive meaningful workplace transformation.

 

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

  • What is an HIR Audit and why it should be important to the organisation?
  • The legal framework
  • The benefits and avoiding the pitfall of conducting an Internal Audit
  • How to involve key stakeholders and build engagement
  • Focus areas for the HIR Audit-Strategic, Compliance and Best Practice
  • When to Audit and the scope of works
  • Steps within an IR Audit
  • Activity: The HIR Audit Checklist
  • Activity: The Audit Questionnaire
  • Activity: Case Study
  • Preparing and presenting the findings and recommendations the do’s and don’ts

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Human Resource Professionals, Industrial Relations Practitioners, Administrative or Team Leaders, Managers, Supervisors, Business Owners, and Other Interested Persons.

 

Dates: Tuesday, 18th August 2026 | Time: 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Venue: Online via ZOOM Meeting

Cost (per person): $1,400.00 plus vat (ECA Members) | $1,960.00 plus vat (Non-Members) 

FACILITATOR

Giselle Estrada
Strategic HR & IR Consultant

Mrs. Estrada is an accomplished HR/IR professional with over two decades of experience within both public and private sector organizations locally and regionally. She is currently a consultant attached to the Employers Solution Centre (ESC), the subsidiary of the ECA, where she provides advisory and advocacy services to our membership. Mrs. Estrada holds an MBA with a specialism in Human Resources from Anglia Ruskin University. She is also professionally certified in Advanced Mediation by the Stitt Feld Handy Group. Her expertise extends to conflict resolution, human resource management, employee and industrial relations, collective bargaining as well as dispute resolution.

 

Event Information

Event Date 18/08/2026 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Individual Price Members: $1,400.00, Non-Members: $1,960.00 (plus vat per person)
Location Online - ZOOM Meeting