This week I had the opportunity to attend and give a presentation at the NIOSH NORA Health Care and Social Assistance Sector Council Meeting in Washington DC.  It was the first NIOSH NORA meeting I have attended and I found the discussion both very enlightening and somewhat scary. At this meeting I gave a presentation [...]

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The ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB) is seeking public comment on its Draft Accreditation Rule A on OHSMS Program.  ANAB is the U.S. accreditation body for a number of different management system standards, including ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ANSI/AIHA Z10.  ANAB has posted a link on its web site (under Public Ballots) that provides access to this draft [...]

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When you get involved in developing international standards, you quickly discover that they build one upon another.  The definitions used in OHSAS 18001 are from ISO 14001 — those definitions came from ISO 9000 which, in turn, came from other standards before it.  Similarly, standards are now being developed using OHSAS 18001 as a model.  If you are interested [...]

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A revision of OHSAS 18001, Occupational health and safety management system – Requirements, is scheduled to be published in early July 2007. When OHSAS 18001 was initially drafted in 1999, it was specifically written to be consistent with ISO 14001:1996, the environmental management system standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).  When ISO 14001 was revised [...]

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