Occupational, Health, and Safety Assessment Series OHSAS 18001:2007
Occupational Health and Safety Management System – Requirements
McAllister Consulting assists businesses of all types in achieving compliance to the OHSAS 18001:2007 requirements. You may choose to get registered to OHSAS 18001 or “self-declare” your compliance.
A Safety Management System assists a business in achieving compliance to health and safety regulations, and in identifying hazards, assessing the related risks, and taking actions to reduce the risk of injury or ill health. We can assist you in all phases: design, development, implementation, and maintenance (including training your internal auditors or performing your internal audits for you) of your safety management system.
Your Safety Management System can be designed to be:
- Combined with your Quality and Environmental Management Systems: The core requirements of document control, record control, training/competence, corrective action, preventive action, internal audits, and management reviews are almost identical for ISO 9001 (including the industry-specific spin-offs), ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001.
- Combined with your Environmental Management System Only: Almost all of the requirements of OHSAS 18001 match up one for one with the requirements of ISO 14001 with respect to intent, with the difference being one relates to the environment, one relates to hazards and health. In addition, in most organizations the responsibility for meeting environmental and health and safety requirements is already assigned to the same person/department.
- Stand Alone System: Your Occupational, Health, and Safety Management System can be completely independent from any other management system you already have in place. The OHSAS standard includes a statement that documentation should be kept to a minimum for effectiveness and efficiency. McAllister Consulting has always subscribed to that same policy.
- Face the facts. Many organizations have over-designed their quality and environmental management systems to such an extent that they have lost their effectiveness. All time and efforts are spent meeting the burdens imposed by the system instead of achieving the intent of the system. In such situations, it does not make sense to build another system from the same framework. (NOTE: McAllister Consulting can help you simplify your current management systems so you can finally get the results you expect. Through the years, approximately half of McAllister Consulting’s services have been related to simplifying a failing, over-designed management system.)
