Overview
OHSAS 18000 is an international occupational health and safety management system specification. Comprised of two parts, 18001 and 18002, OHSAS 18000 embraces BS8800 and a number of other publications.
Developed by a group of certification bodies and various national standards organizations, OHSAS 18001 was designed to enable companies to control their OHS risks. It also allows companies to demonstrate their commitment to providing a safe working environment, protecting their employees, and improving overall performance.
Due to the success of the ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 series of standards, OHSAS 18001 was developed to be compatible with the other ISO management systems. Many sections and sub-clauses are similar to other systems, such as management review, document control, and corrective and preventive actions, making OHSAS 18001 easily compatible with other common certifications.
Benefits
Certifying your OHSAS 18001 management system enables your organization to prove that it conforms to the specification and provides the following benefits:
- Potential reduction in the number of accidents.
- Potential reduction in downtime and associated costs.
- Demonstration of legal and regulatory compliance.
- Improved performance through policies and procedures.
- Demonstration to stakeholders of your commitment to health and safety.
- Demonstration of an innovative and forward thinking approach.
- Increased access to new customers and business partners.
- Better management of health and safety risks, now and in the future.
- Potential reduced public liability insurance costs.
- Compliance to the latest legislation.
- Provides a framework for organizational risk management.
- Demonstrates due diligence and reasonable care – reduced personal and corporate liability in the event of an incident.
- Reduces worker’s compensation costs and health care insurance premiums.
- Increases productivity, improves employee health, and reduces absenteeism.
- Improves employee satisfaction and employee retention, attracts the best new skills, and improves product / service quality.
- Demonstrates corporate social responsibility.
The Challenge
In a competitive marketplace, your customers are looking for more than just low pricing from their suppliers. Companies need to demonstrate that their businesses are managed efficiently and responsibly and that they can provide a reliable service without excessive downtime caused by work-related accidents and incidents.
The following issues may impact a company in its registration efforts:
- Supporting cultural change throughout implementation.
- Difficulty in adoption and standardization of OHSAS initiatives across the organization.
- Regulatory pressure.
- Compliance costs are high and limited resources – when asked, most companies will normally identify money, personnel, and time as their most problematic resources.
- Extracting and transforming data of occupational health and safety to risk information and identifying and quantifying operational risks.
- Ensuring adequate contingency and business continuity plans.
- Demonstrating robust occupational health and safety management to all stakeholders or managers.
- Time can become a severe limitation for a business.
- Implementing an effective team structure with management support.
- And many others…
All of these are significant challenges. However, the implementation and registration of a management system helps an organization achieve continuous performance improvement.
To deal with all these challenges an integrated and automated management system can certainly be of great help.
ISOSYSTEM provides organizational efficiency, process control, and flexibility to help simplify the tasks involved in managing data and information. It also helps your organization make better decisions in managing the content and process that drive your business.
ISOSYSTEM suite is an integrated, configurable, and easy-to-use software solution especially designed to facilitate adherence to ISO quality standards. ISOSYSTEM can help meet key OHSAS 18000 requirements, while at the same time, increase efficiency and keep compliance costs down.
SE Suite Compliance Mapping
Each ISOSYSTEM module addresses key compliance issues as shown below:
| ISOSYSTEM Module |
OHSAS 18000 Compliance and Requirements |
SE Document |
- Document the occupational health and safety management system specification.
- Manage the creation, review, approval, storage, control, update, and distribution of all assessments documents.
- Streamline the control, rout, and revision management for critical documents and records.
- Optimize document workflow from creation to archival.
- Establish a consistent corporate-wide document management workflow process.
- Ensure only the most up-to-date versions of documents are used.
- Set security controls to ensure groups, departments, and locations have access to proprietary documents.
- Automate document protection and retention rules.
- Ensure full documentation review of every aspect of the environmental management system.
|
SE Action |
- Manage records, nonconformance – accidents and incidents investigations for Occupational Health and Safety.
- Manage handling and investigating nonconformance.
- Guarantee a consistent corporate-wide approach for reporting all environmental and health & safety nonconformance.
- Roll-up nonconformance data in real-time to multiple management levels.
- Ensure that appropriate corrective action is decided upon and implemented.
- Ensure that responsibility for corrective action is clearly defined.
- Keep records of defects, the investigation of their cause, and the corrective actions.
|
SE Audit |
- Manage Internal and external OH&S audits.
- Maintain daily operational data in a centralized system and be prepared for audits all-year-round.
- Establish a consistent corporate-wide audit workflow process.
- Roll-up audit-related data in real-time to multiple management levels.
- Examine historical data and use trending and analysis tools to predict and improve future organizational performance.
- All findings are corrected and registered.
- Ensure corrective actions are carried out on time.
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SE Competence |
- Manage competence, awareness, and training for health and safety management.
- Achieve your organization's targeted competency levels.
- Monitor the progress of all completed/pending training in real-time.
- Coordinate training efforts across multiple facilities.
- Ensure that employees (new and current) receive the required training and nothing falls though the cracks.
- Save time with group scheduling, tracking, and updating.
- Enables the tracking of training, licensing, and other requirements for either a single location, or at a regional or corporate level.
|
SE Risk |
- Mange identification, scoring, ranking, and mitigation of significant safety hazards and risks.
- Ensure safety management procedures and responsibilities are clearly mandated.
- Identify potential barriers to reducing risk and monitor their effectiveness over time.
- Create summary reports sorted by employee, workgroup, department, or facility.
- Substantiate decisions allowing corporate and operational centers to analyze and understand risk at the source, by work location, employee, and by job task.
- Manage deals how the severity, frequency, and likelihood of a risk occurring.
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SE Performance |
- Provide executive dashboard visibility on enterprise-wide indicators of occupation health and safety management.
- Provide consistent and comparable compliance information across your business.
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SE Process |
- Define and manage structure, processes, and responsibility for occupational health and safety.
- Perform monitoring and measurement of processes.
- Easily manage, review, and improve corporate response processes and performance.
- Establish a consistent corporate-wide safety management workflow process.
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SE BI |
- Compare mission levels over time to industry.
- Provide graphical scorecards and dashboards display.
- Provide status with standard one-click reports.
- Create custom scorecards, dashboards, and reports.
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