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 in […]

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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 in […]

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