Occupational Health and Safety
Many companies are implementing Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) Systems with the purpose of complying with legal requirements and protecting their workforce.
Occupational health and safety is a subject that affects all your work. An OH&S system can help in creating a healthy and secure work environment for a company.
Keeping OH&S conditions under control is a legal necessity in our country. How do you enable adaptations to the laws and how do you create a system that protects you and the company? The answer is to implement a management system that reduces the risk of accidents, lawsuits, and loss of time.
What is the Occupational Health and Safety Management System?
The Occupational Health and Safety Management System provides a foundation that enables companies to manage their health and security risks and create actions to prevent possible accidents from occurring.
Today, in our country, as in many countries in the world, there exist many serious legal actions that relate to occupational health and safety. The OH&S Management System plays an active role in complying with the legal requirements that control the occupational health and safety conditions for a company.
What is OHSAS 18001?
The OHSAS 18001 Specifications were prepared with participation from various national standards associations and auditing companies, with the purpose of helping companies form their OH&S management systems.
The OHSAS 18001 follows the Plan-Implement-Control-Take Precautions cycle by emphasizing continual development. This model is very similar to other management systems such as ISO 9001 and 14001, and as a result, makes it easier to integrate.
Today, OHSAS 18001 is the Occupational Health and Safety specification that is most widely accepted in the world. Its most important benefits include:
-Reducing health and security risks
-Protecting against possible loss as a result of accidents
-Enable competitive advantages
-Increase employee motivation
-Comply with legal requirements
-The Founding of OHSAS 18001
Management Support and OH&S Policy
Senior management must enable the necessary support for the OH&S management system and must provide a framework for a policy where OH&S practices are adopted.
Planning
-Define the elements of danger, evaluate risks, and determine the necessary precautions.
-Identify legal responsibilities.
-Identify the goals of an OH&S Management System and implement a management program that allows it to obtain its goals.
Implementation
-Determine roles and responsibilities.
-Create procedures about OH&S information that can be shared with employees and other concerned parties.
-Document activities and create a documentation and data control system.
-Bring a process control system to life.
-Develop plans and procedures for emergencies.
In order to check your management system and to make corrective actions which may be necessary:
-Put performance, measurement, and auditing practices into place.
-Determine responsibilities and authority for accidents and events and corrective and preventive activities and document them.
-Identify a procedure for records and records management.
-Audit and evaluate the performance of the management system.
What Management Needs to Review
Management should review the OH&S system from time to time for appropriateness of purpose and effectiveness. This is a way to guarantee that the system is continually improved.
Our Consulting Method
By combining its experience on the subjects of Management Systems and Project Management, Mentor provides consulting services to meet the needs of a company that wants to create and and continually develop Management Systems.
The fundamental subject that Mentor’s work focuses on is not becoming certified, but rather on developing a system that will be a living, working system and provide benefits to a company.
