What is OHSAS 18001? Who is the audit for?What does it cover?
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Who is the
audit for?
The audit is designed for any workplace looking to demonstrate their commitment to legislative requirements and health and safety standards.
It helps organisations manage the risk of workplace accidents and ill health, and confirms that arrangements are in place to meet legal requirements. It can confirm that occupational health and safety systems and arrangements are designed to meet a recognised standard criteria.
What does it cover?
The audit reviews the status of your organisation's occupational health and safety management system against defined requirements. This will be undertaken via document review, interviews with key personnel and an inspection of your organisation's premises. This process will include sampling of operational activities to ensure effective implementation of the health and safety management system. - See more at: https://www.britsafe.org/audit-and-consultancy/ohsas-safety-audit#sthash.K45Cy0ct.dpuf
The audit is designed for any workplace looking to demonstrate their commitment to legislative requirements and health and safety standards.
It helps organisations manage the risk of workplace accidents and ill health, and confirms that arrangements are in place to meet legal requirements. It can confirm that occupational health and safety systems and arrangements are designed to meet a recognised standard criteria.
What does it cover?
The audit reviews the status of your organisation's occupational health and safety management system against defined requirements. This will be undertaken via document review, interviews with key personnel and an inspection of your organisation's premises. This process will include sampling of operational activities to ensure effective implementation of the health and safety management system. - See more at: https://www.britsafe.org/audit-and-consultancy/ohsas-safety-audit#sthash.K45Cy0ct.dpuf
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What is OHSAS 18001?
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OHSAS 18001:2007
is an internationally recognized occupational health and safety management
system developed to match the demand for a recognizable standard against which
assessing and certifying the management system.
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The standard can
be applied to all business and operational activities and requires also the
compliance with all applicable regulatory framework.
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OHSAS 18001 is
risk management oriented and aims to allow organizations to proactively manage
their processes in order to minimize health and safety risks.
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This standard
does not establish OH&S performance criteria, nor does it provide detailed
specifications for the design of an OHSAS management system but requires the
organization to:
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r establish
its own safety policy and objectives
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r identify
hazards and risks
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r evaluate
risks likelihood and impact
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r verify
the compliance with applicable rules
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r plan
and deploy suitable countermeasures to prevent injuries, illnesses and
fatalities
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r monitor
and improve performances
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What are the key features of OHSAS 18001:2007?
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r Great
emphasis placed on "Health"
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r Alignment
with ISO 14001:2004 throughout the standard to facilitate integration.
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r Compatibility
with ISO 9001:2000.
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r Reference
to PDCA cycle
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r "Evaluation
of Compliance" requested as per ISO 14001:2004.
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r People
involvement in establishing the system and investigation of incidents.
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r Suitability
for management system certification
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Who created
this standard?
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OHSAS 18001 has
been developed by a working group lead by BSI and several leading national
standards bodies, certification bodies, and professionals.
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Can the OHSAS
18001 standard be integrated with other management systems?
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OHSAS 18001 has
been developed to ensure the compatibility with the ISO 9001 (Quality) and ISO
14001 (Environmental) management systems standards, in order to facilitate the
integration of quality, environmental and occupational health and safety
management systems by organizations, should they wish to do so.
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The overall structure of the standard is similar
to other relevant standard and many key requirements are common to all systems
(e.g. policy, objectives, document control, internal auditing, management
review, corrective and preventive actions)
Such integrated standardization
approach allows certification bodies to provide organizations with Integrated
Management System certification including all the three major standards for
Quality, Environment, Health and Safety.
Who does the OHSAS 18001
standard apply to?
The OHSAS Standard applies to
any organization that wishes to:
r Support and promote good OH&S prctices
r Minimize safety risks in the work environment
r Ensure the proper deployment of its OH&S policy
and the achievement of objectives
r Introduce a common language for health and safety
within the organization
r Establish, deploy, monitor and improve the OH&S
management system
r Demonstrate OHSAS conformance to Stakeholders
r Achieving
the OH&S management system certification by a third party certification
body
The OHSAS 18001 effective
implementation requires a clear management structure with clearly defined
authority and responsibility, measurable objectives for improvement, a
systematic approach to risk assessment and measurable results. This includes
the monitoring of health and safety management failures, auditing of
performance and review of policies and objectives.
What are the benefits from
implementing OHSAS 18001?
r Improving awareness and control of workplace hazards
and risks
r Facilitating the reduction in the number and severity
of work-related accidents and illness, lost time incidents and injuries
r Improving employee health and safety and people
satisfaction
r Leading to compliance with legal and regulatory
requirements,
r Reducing risks of litigations and penalties
r Establishing a framework for effective risk management
r Reducing insurance premiums and other unexpected costs
related to healthcare
r Improving productivity, people satisfaction and
retention
r Increasing ability to attract the best new talent.
r Reducing operating costs - by decreasing down-time
through incidents and ill health
r Reducing costs associated with legal fees and compensation
r Improving
the company image through independent management system certification
How to get OHSAS 18001
certification?
The management certification
process follows the following steps:
r Application for registration
r Initial Certification Audit to verify the compliance
with OHSAS 18001 requirement. Such audit consist of Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits
r Certification granting by the Certification Body and
maintained by the Organization.
r Surveillance Audit to confirm the maintenance of
compliance with the requirements
r Re-certification
audit after three years.
OHSAS Initial Certification
Process
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The Initial Certification Process is similar to
that of ISO 9001 or ISO 14001 and consists of two different audits.
Stage 1- the purpose of this visit is to determine the
organization’s readiness for a full assessment. The assessor will:
r Audit the organization’s management system
documentation
r confirm that the OH&S management system conforms
to the requirements of the standard
r confirm its implementation status
r confirm the scope of certification
r check legislative compliance
r evaluate if the internal audits and management review
are being planned and performed and that the management system implementation
is ready for Stage 2 Audit
r produce a report that identifies any non-compliance or
potential for non-compliance and agree a corrective action plan if required
r produce
an audit plan and confirm a date for the Stage 2 assessment visit
Stage 2 – this Audit shall take place at site and aim to
confirm if the management system complies with the requirements of OHSAS 18001
and the internal documentation.
The Auditor shall verify:
r the conformity to all requirements of the applicable
management system standard or other normative document
r performance monitoring, measuring, reporting and
reviewing against key performance objectives and targets (consistent with the
expectations in the applicable management system standard or other normative
document)
r the management system and performance as regards legal
compliance
r the effective implementation of the risk management
approach
r the operational control of the processes
r the
internal auditing and management review
The auditor shall
r report any non-compliances or potential for
non-compliance
r produce
a surveillance plan and confirm a date for the first surveillance visit
If the Auditor identifies any
critical or major non-conformance, the organization cannot be certified until
corrective action is taken and verified.
What are the requirements of
OHSAS 18001?
The following is the index of
OHSAS 18001:2007 Requirements:
4.1 General Requirements
4.2 OHSAS policy
4.3 Planning requirements
4.3.1 Hazard identification,
risk assessment and determining controls
4.3.2 Legal and other
requirements
4.3.3 Objectives and
programme(s)
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4.4 Implementation and operation requirements
4.4.1 Establishing resource,
roles, responsibility, accountability and authority
4.4.2 Competence, training and
awareness
4.4.3 Communication,
participation and consultation
4.4.3.1 Establishing OH&S
communication procedures
4.4.3.2 Establishing
Participation and consultation procedures
4.3.4 Documentation for
OH&S management system
4.4.5 Control of documents
4.4.6 Operational control
4.4.7 Emergency preparedness
and response
4.5 Checking
4.5.1 Performance Measurement
and monitoring
4.5.2 Evaluation of compliance
4.5.3 Incident investigation,
non conformity, corrective action and preventive action
4.5.3.1 Incident investigation
4.5.3.2 Non conformity,
corrective action and preventive action
4.5.4 Control of records
4.5.5 Internal Audit
4.6 Management review
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