Occupational Health and Safety Management System OHSAS

What is OHSMS?

BS OHSAS 18001is an occupational health and safety management standard. It defines a set of occupational health and safety (OH&S)management requirements for occupational health and safety management systems (OHSMS).

It was developed by the OHSAS Project Group, a consortium of 43organizations from 28 countries. This consortium includes nationalstandard bodies, registrars (certification bodies), consultants, and occupational health and safety institutes.

OHSAS 18001 has rapidly become the mostwidely used international occupational health and safety management standard. It applies to all types of organizations. It doesn’t matter what size they are or what they do.

The purpose of OHSAS 18001 is to help organizations to manage and control their occupational health and safety risks and to improve their occupational health and safety performance. They can achieve this purpose by developing an occupational health and safety manage mentsystem (OHSMS) that complies with the standard.

An OHSMS is a network of interrelated elements. These elements include responsibilities, authorities, relationships, functions, activities,processes, practices, procedures, and resources. These elements areused to establish OH&S policies, plans, programs, and objectives.

Importance and Benefits of OHSMS / BS 18001

Organisations of all kinds are increasingly concerned with achieving and demonstrating sound occupational health and safety (OH&S) performance by controlling their OH&S risks, consistent with their policy and objectives. They do so in the context of increasingly stringent legislation, the development of policies and other measures that foster good OH&S practices.

The advantages of an effective OHSAS management system:

• Provides a structured approach for managing OH&S
• Establishes and maintains a commitment to occupational health and safety
• Demonstrates strong commitment to safety excellence
• Organisational structures in place with clear roles and responsibilities
• Existence of a continuous improvement culture
• Strong levels of trust and communication
• Reduction in incident levels with increased measures of performance.
• Contributes to business performance by reducing cost and liability

Its supporters claim that an OHSMS promotes a safe and healthy working environment by providing a framework that helps organizations to:

• Identify and control health and safety risks
• Reduce the potential for accidents
• Aid legal compliance
• Improve overall performance

What ING do?
Pre-Assessment:

• A pre-assessment audit can be described to be a complete audit of the established management system to determine readiness of the organisation for a certification audit.
• ING provides Pre-assessment audit services to identify any non-conformity and allows company to implement corrective actions before the certification audit.
• Our pre-assessment audit results provide confidence to the company to proceed to the certification audit.

Trainings:

• Staff should undergo environmental awareness training to familiarise them with their responsibilities for implementing the OHSAS and with the overall environmental policy and objectives of the organisation. This provides staff with the necessary skill and motivation for the effective implementation of the OHSAS.
• Training is one of the core strength of ING’s Business.
• ING trains your organisation team to expertise their skills in the relevant fields to cope up with international standards and also explores your team to maximize their work efficiency with ING’s world class trained tutors.
• ING not only teaches, also makes you to understand and updates you to the changing world`s competition, so that your team will optimize their working efficiency and do well for the organization`s development.
• ING’s training methodology awakes your personnel skills to do their job right for the first time and every time.
• ING’s customized course structure assures your team to learn through interactive, in-depth, reasoning training sessions conducted on-site, in the field and in the convenient comfortable aerial atmosphere.