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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:
* National Standards Authority of Ireland
* Standards Australia
* South African Bureau of Standards
* British Standards Institution
* Bureau Veritas Quality International
* Det Norske Veritas
* Lloyds Register Quality Assurance
* National Quality Assurance
* SFS Certification
* SGS Yarsley International Certification Services
* Asociaci?spa? de Normalizaci? Certificaci?r
* International Safety Management Organisation Ltd
* Standards and Industry Research Institute of Malaysia
* International Certification Services
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
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.
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
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