Occupational Health & Safety Management System

 

Occupational Safety and health management system has basic five key elements. in this article I will describe the occupational health and safety management system. 

Elements of OHS Management

1.            Occupational health and safety policy

2.            Planning

3.            Implementation

4.            Measurement of performance

5.            Audit and review

Occupational health and safety policy

OHS policy is a basic general approach from the employer how he will manage health and safety in the workplace. In OHS policy objective & target related to OHS define and signed by the top-level person in the organization as director or GM as organization commitment.

OHS Planning

After the setting target and objective in the policy, the organization made a plan to achieve the objectives and targets set in the occupational health & Safety Planning. This planning focused on how the organization will achieve the objective and target define in OHS Policy.

Implementation

Implementation is a very important phase. After the planning now the time is to implement planning at work scope. The organization will make sure all required resources as per planning available for implementation. All steps of the work scope as pr planning stage so the organization can achieve there set objective and target.

Measurement of performance

Measurement of performance is key for the achieving of occupational health and safety objectives and targets. The organization measures its performance against set objectives and targets which define in OHS policy. For the measurement of performance, organization management got a clear picture of where the is organization now and what need is required to achieve to OHS objective and target. Which area of the organization having areas for improvements.  From the measurement of performance management realign or restructure their method of work or provide more resources to achieve.

 Audit & Review

Audit of the organization on set standards will done be approved 3rd party independent auditors. The audit will be conducted on a set standard; the Auditor reviews the organization's policy procedures and implementation evidence against ISO standards. At the end of the audit, the auditor will write the audit report and highlight the area of improvement. If any lacking or lagging auditor will issue NCR (nonconformance report) or CAR (corrective action request). Auditor will allocate the time for the organization to close the NCR, CAR. After the closeout organization will submit the close-out evidence to the auditor.

This is the overview of the OHS management system, you can check my blog for OHS system details.

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Sallat Daurez

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