Entries Categorized as 'OHSAS 18001:2007 Revisions'
August 14, 2007
Yesterday, I discussed areas to concentrate on for maintaining your OHSAS 18001 management system. What about continual improvement of your occupational health and safety management system?
Section 4.1 of OHSAS 18001:2007 sets out five general requirements for an OH&S management system -
establishing a management system
documenting your management system
implementing your management system
maintaining your management system
continually improving your management […]
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August 2, 2007
In a previous blog, I listed five significant changes made to OHSAS 18001 in the 2007 revision. One of these significant changes is the clarification of the role of incident investigation in an occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS). In particular, incident investigation is now a separate subsection of section 4.5.3 – Incident investigation, […]
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July 27, 2007
In the 2007 revision of OHSAS 18001, a requirement was added for allocating, documenting and communicating accountabilities — as well as responsibilities. While accountability is not defined in OHSAS 18001, it is an important concept in a management system. The dictionary definition is “the state of being accountable, liable or answerable.” According to wikipedia, the word “accountability” […]
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July 18, 2007
Although it is often used as a term of art in the safety field, “management of change” is not a defined term in OHSAS 18001:2007. It is, however; vital to an effective OH&S management system.
Explicit requirements for management of change were added into section 4.3.1 of OHSAS 18001 in the 2007 revision of the standard. […]
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July 14, 2007
Section 4.3.1 of OHSAS 18001 (Hazard Assessment, Risk Assessment & Determining Controls) was completely changed during the revision process. Overall, these changes align OHSAS 18001 more closely with other OH&S management system standards such as ANSI/AIHA Z10:2005.
This section now sets out additional details on both the inputs to be considered and the methodology to be used for the hazard […]
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July 13, 2007
One of the major criticisms of the 1999 version of OHSAS 18001 was that it was a “management” standard that ignored “labor” interests. Significant changes were made in section 4.4.3 of the standard to address these concerns.
First, this section of the standard was divided into two sub-sections: 4.4.3.1 Communication and 4.4.3.2 Participation and Consultation. The requirements in sub-section […]
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July 12, 2007
As discussed in a previous Blog, one of the major drivers in the revision of OHSAS 18001 was alignment with ISO 14001:2004. When OHSAS 18001 was originally developed in 1999, it was drafted to be consistent with ISO 14001:1996 in language and structure. When ISO 14001 was revised in 2004, some of the alignment between the standards […]
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