OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

A quality management system for managing risks within the company to assure the protection of its people, assets, reputation and the environment the company operates within.

OH & S-MS has the same elements, and two additional elements that are considered vital to the system, since they ensure the integration of safety into business, as follows:

•          Leadership and commitment

•          Policy and strategic objectives

•          Organization, responsibilities, resources, standards documentation

•          Hazards and effects management

•          Planning and procedures

•          Implementation

•          Audit

•          Management Review

MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP

•          State the vision and long term direction - High level policies

•            Establish the organization - select the right persons

•            Roles and responsibilities  –  assign each person to defined roles & responsibilities

•            Visible Commitment - Empower via budgetary considerations/authority

•            Leadership by example – no compromise, no distinctions

POLICY AND STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

    OHS POLICY

•          Companies shall each have a written OHS policy.

     STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

•          OHS objectives shall be challenging, understood by all and consistently incorporated in policies

Goals and Objectives shall include;

•          Safer and cheaper operations-less incidents, less stoppages, etc.

•            Improved hazard and effect management

•            Improved corporate image and morale

•            Improved bottom line for the business

•            Improved interface management

•          In setting objectives, management shall consider the overall risk levels of its activities and shall identify those critical operations and installations which require a fully documented demonstration that risks have been reduced to as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP).

•          Adequate standards and procedures shall be in place and understood at the appropriate organizational levels.

Preparation, review and distribution of all key reference documentation shall be adequately controlled.

•           List of OHS Standards

•           Procedures and Work Instructions

•           Permit To Work

•           Concurrent Operations

•           Contractor OHS

•           Business Cycle and OHS Planning

•           Controlled Documentation.

•           Emergency response procedures (including medical emergencies) shall be regularly tested.

               

   AUDIT

•          Scheduled audit programme to review and verify the effectiveness of the management system. It should include

•          Audits by auditors independent of the process or facility  studies.

•           Audit Programme

     -   Internal and External audits

     -   External Certification

•           Audit  follow up shall be timely, thorough and auditable

IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING

OHS performance targets shall be set to ensure progression towards:

•           The long term goals of no harm to people and no damage to the environment

•            Performance indicators shall be established, monitored and results reported in a way that can be externally verified.

•           All OHS incidents and near misses with significant actual or potential consequences shall be thoroughly investigated and reported.

Management Review

•          Programme (on business plan schedule) of Management.

•          Review of OHS-MS Cases as well as general  OHS issues:

      Objective: Assess suitability and effectiveness of the system.

          -    Yearly review of implementation

          -    3 -Yearly review of Management System