The start of the New Year is good time to pause, reflect and clean out. Many organizations use the start of the year as a time to review their OH&S management system objectives and set new ones. If their OH&S programs are lagging in their implementation, new approaches or new assignments are considered. This is [...]
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One of the key requirements of the OHSAS 18001 standard is establishing a procedure for taking corrective and preventive action (section 4.5.3.2). Both corrective and preventive action need to include identifying the underlying causes – often called root causes – of whatever it is that is or went wrong. This is not easy. Often, the [...]
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One of the difficult questions that OH&S managers face is – “Do we need a written procedure for [some process]?” The dilemma is that although written procedures are a necessary part of an occupational safety and health management system – if you create too many formal procedures your OHSMS becomes complex, cumbersome and unwieldy. I just got done reading an article in [...]
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Many OHS management systems and programs have a major problem – they are bloated with paperwork, inefficient in their operation and filled with busywork. These programs are often focused on the achievement of arbitrary metrics rather than improved OH&S performance. As a result, the managers of these programs are often fed-up, burned out and overwhelmed. [...]
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