Health and Safety is serious business. Strict Workplace Health and Safety laws impose obligations on organisations and individuals that must be followed. Everyone has a role to play in ensuring a safe working environment.
The best way to achieve this is by implementing an occupational health and safety management system in your business.
At Obsequium, our health and safety consultants develop safety management systems that are practical and easy to use. Our extensive experience in work health and safety means we know what is required and what will work best in achieving your WHS goals and objectives.
Occupational health and safety management system consulting
Developing ISO 45001 procedures, manuals and templates
Transitioning your OHS system from AS/NZS 4801 to ISO 45001
OHS system maintenance and support
System auditing
Staff coaching on effective system practices
Achieving ISO 45001 certification
An occupational health and safety (also known as OHS / WHS) management system aims to provide a framework for preventing work related injuries and ill health, by providing a safe and healthy workplace through the elimination or minimisation of hazards and risks.
ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems is the globally recognised OHS Standard. It provides the framework that organisations can adopt in order to proactively address health and safety risks and opportunities across all levels of the business.
It provides a risk based approach to eliminating hazards and minimising health and safety risks by taking effective preventive and protective actions.
By following the framework in ISO 45001 your organisation can fulfil its legal requirements, anticipate and address your OHS risks before they arise, and improve your overall health and safety performance.
When developed and implemented correctly, an ISO 45001 management system can provide many advantages to your organisation and workers regardless of your size or industry.
Some of the benefits include:
Improve worker safety and reducing health and safety incidents and illnesses.
Help your organisation comply with WHS laws and regulations.
Avoid exposure to prosecution and scrutiny from safety regulators.
Position your business as an industry leader.
Enhances access to new markets, business opportunities, clients and contracts.
Improving the safety culture within your organisation through workforce engagement.
Boosting stakeholder confidence.
Reducing health and safety risks through proactive hazard and risk assessment.
Identifying opportunities for improvement of health and safety.
Lowers insurance premiums.
To implement an occupational health and safety management system that complies with ISO 45001, your organisation will need to fulfil a series of requirements. An snapshot of the requirements has been provided below.
Understand your organisation and the context it operates within
Identify and understand the needs and expectation of your interested parties
Determine the scope of your OHS management system
Establish and implement your OHS management system processes
Top management leadership and commitment
OHS policy and its communication
Establish organisational roles, responsibilities and authorities
Consultation and participation of workers
Identify and provide necessary resources for the management system
Competency, awareness and communication
Control of documented information and records
Incident, nonconformity and corrective actions
Continual improvement practices
Operational planning and control
Eliminating hazards and reducing OHS risks
Management of change
Contractors and procurement
Emergency preparedness and response
Monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation of the system
Evaluation of compliance
Internal audits
Top management review
Actions to address risks and opportunities
Establish OHS objectives and plans to achieve them
Determination of legal requirements and other requirements
Hazard identification and assessment of risks and opportunities
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