OHSAS18001 certification
1. What is OHSAS18001 occupational health and safety management system?
Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSAS18001) is applicable to occupational health and safety of any organization's management system standards, the purpose is to reduce management and prevent accidents caused by the loss of life, property, time, and damage to the environment.
OHSAS18001: 1999 provides a set of control risk management approach for the organization:
- Compliance identified through professional investigation and assessment and related regulatory requirements, identify the existing enterprise products, services, activities, work environment hazards
- Appropriate control programs for the development of hazards and risks inadmissible
- The implementation of control programs, periodically check to assess occupational health and safety regulations and programs
- Establishing contains the organizational structure, responsibilities, training, communication, and other elements of emergency preparedness and response management system, continual improvement of occupational health and safety performance.
2007 July 2 OHSAS18001 standards working group officially released OHSAS 18001: 2007 new standard.
2, the implementation of OHSAS18001 benefits:
OHSAS18001 occupational health and safety management system established and it can help companies save costs and establish a good reputation, to help enterprises overcome non-tariff barriers to trade, the country's economic and social development with long-term effect, conform to the new trend of international trade and promote economically sustainable development. it includes:
- The establishment of business confidence in line with occupational health and safety policy stakeholders
- Enhanced buyers confidence in the product quality and reliability
- Occupational health and safety effectively reduce business risk, loss prevention, improve efficiency, achieve business continuity
- Reduce employee complaints or complain, improve employee satisfaction, reduce turnover, enhance organizational cohesion
- Promote the improvement of internal management, reflect the people-oriented corporate culture, enhance the company's corporate image
OHSAS18000 audit scope
To clarify occupational safety and health management system, the basic requirements to encourage employers using reasonable OSH management principles and methods to control its occupational safety and health risks, continual improvement of occupational safety and health performance, specially formulated occupational safety and health management system audit specification.
This specification is applicable to any of the following aspirations of the employer:
(1) the establishment of occupational safety and health management system to effectively eliminate and minimize the risks associated with activities related to the employer's employees and other persons may suffer;
(2) implement, maintain and continually improve its occupational safety and health management system;
(3) assure compliance with occupational safety and health of its policy statement;
(4) shows that occupational safety and health of its working principles to the community;
(5) to seek external certification and registration bodies to their occupational safety and health management system;
(6) self-evaluation and statement of compliance with this specification.
All requirements specification proposed to help employers establish occupational safety and health management system, the extent of its application depends on the employer occupational safety and health policy, activities and risk characteristics of the nature and complexity of its operations.
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