Health and Safety.With the introduction of recent updates to Health and Safety legislation there are more stringent requirements on management to comply, not only with the law, but to ensure the continuous Health, Safety and Welfare of employess, customers and sub contractors. Legislation places more demanding individual sanctions on individual managers with responsibility for Health and Safety in their workplaces. ISO 18001:2007 OHSAS
ISO 18001:2007 is an internationally recognised standard and is recognised as the benchmark for Health & Safety Management Systems certification.
It promotes a safe and healthy working environment by providing a framework that allows your organisation to consistently identify and control its health and safety risks, reduce the potential for accidents, aid legislative compliance and improve overall performance. The standard has been updated to EN BS OHSAS 18001:2007 to parallel ISO 14001 and ISO 9000 for more consistency and to enable easier integration of environment, quality and health and safety management systems into one.
Benefits of implementation of OHSAS 18001 include;
- Potential reduction in the number of accidents through hazard identification and risk assessment.
- Proof of legal and regulatory compliance
- Profiles your commitment to health and safety
- Better management of health and safety risks
- Motivation of staff through involvement in risk identification and implenetation of controls.
- Potential reduced public liability insurance costs
- Certification will identify organisation as independently audited.
MFA can assist you in:Completion of Gap Analysis against requirements to include legislative/regulatory and developing an implementation plan which will form the basis of your Safety Management System Review hazards and develop risk assessment for operations/processes Preparation of Register of Legislation Planning/implementation the OHSMS H&S Safety statement. Health and Safety awareness training for management and staff Accident/incident reporting, management and investigation Development of site specific permit to work systems. Emergency preparedness and planning – evacuation and fire safety training Manage your OHSMS on an annual agreed fee basis which will include all aspects of the implemented system through to annual certification maintenance if required and to ensure complience to HSA rerquirements.
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