| The Health and Safety & OHSAS Guidance - 2007 |
Welcome to the OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Zone. Here you will find a information, guidence, resources and recommendations to help you address the requirements of this standard, and to manage health and safety more effectively. |
| What is OHSAS 18001? |
| OHSAS 18000 is an international occupational health and safety management system specification. It comprises two parts, 18001 and 18002 and embraces BS8800 and a number of other publications. |
| OHSAS 18001 is an Occupation Health and Safety Assessment Series for health and safety management systems. It is intended to help an organizations to control occupational health and safety risks. It was devloped in response to widespread demand for a recognized standard against which to be certified and assessed. |
| Who Wrote It? |
OHSAS 18001 was created via a concerted effort from a number of the worlds leading national standards bodies, certification bodies, and specialist consultancies. A main driver for this was to try to remove confusion in the workplace from the proliferation of certifiable OH&S specifications. |
The participants were as follows : |
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National Standards Authority of Ireland |
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Standards Australia |
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South African Bureau of Standards |
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British Standards Institution |
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Bureau Veritas Quality International |
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Det Norske Veritas |
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Lloyds Register Quality Assurance |
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National Quality Assurance |
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SFS Certification |
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SGS Yarsley International Certification Services |
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Asociaci?spa? de Normalizaci? Certificaci?r |
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International Safety Management Organisation Ltd |
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Standards and Industry Research Institute of Malaysia |
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International Certification Services |
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| How Can it Help? |
| The OHSAS specification is applicable to any organisation that wishes to: |
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Establish an OH&S management system to eliminate or minimise risk to employees and other interested parties who may be exposed to OH&S risks associated with its activities |
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Assure itself of its conformance with its stated OH&S policy |
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Demonstrate such conformance to others |
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Implement, maintain and continually improve an OH&S management system |
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Make a self-determination and declaration of conformance with this OHSAS specification. |
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Seek certification/registration of its OH&S management system by an external organisation |
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Essentially, OHSAS helps in a variety of respects... it helps: minimise risk to employees/etc; improve an existing OH&S management system; demonstrate diligence; gain assurance; etc. The benefits can be substabtial. |
| Policies and Procedures |
| Central to OHSAS requirements are strong policies and procedures. To assist in this respect, we can therefore offer a full code of practice. |
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| Alternatively, please do not hesitate to contact us for further information and guidance. |
| OHSAS 18001:2007 |
This Occupational Health & Safety Assessment series (OHSAS) Standard 18001 have been developed in response to customer demand for a recognizable occupational health and safety management system standard against which their management systems can be assessed and certified . |
OHSAS 18001 has been developed to be compatible with the ISO 9001:2000 (Quality ) and ISO 14001:2004 (Environmental) management systems standards, In order to facilliate the integration of Quality ,Environment and Occupational health & safety management systems by organizations, should they wish to do so. |
The OHSAS standard will be reviewed or amended when considered appropriate. Reviews will be conducted when new editions of either ISO 9001 OR ISO 14001 are published, to ensure continuing compatibility. |
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