Many organizations are moving away from the traditional approach of handling occupational safety and health issues through a number of separate safety programs. Instead, they are pushing their OH&S professionals to develop and implement an OH&S management system that is integrated with the other management systems in use within the organization.
How is this approach different?
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When safety is at issue, responsibility is important - but so is accountability.
Security contractor Blackwater is once again under scrutiny because of concerns about a lack of accountability for its actions in Iraq. According to a Congressional Research Service report cited in CNN.com, concerns have been raised because of “the apparent lack of a practical means to hold contractors […]
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In reviewing my last two blogs, it struck me that I had started in the middle and really needed to go back to the beginning in discussing the five requirements set out in the first paragraph of Section 4.1 of OHSAS 18001:2007.
This paragraph reads:
The organization shall establish, document, implement, maintain and continually improve an OH&S management system in […]
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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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Last week, a reader e-mailed me the following question –”What are the most important areas to concentrate on in maintaining an OHSAS 18001 management system that is already in place?”
This is an excellent question. Sometimes organizations put so much effort into developing and implementing an occupational health and safety management system, they run out of energy when it […]
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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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On Tuesday, I walked through the exhibits at the ASSE (American Society of Safety Engineers) Safety 2007 conference. I saw a number of really neat products and came away with new ideas and information that I know I will use. I also can away thinking about “silos.” Not the kind used for storing grain but the […]
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