OHSAS 18001 Health and Safety

OHSAS 18001 – the Standard

OHSAS 18001 provides a framework for managing Occupation Health & Safety responsibilities so they become more efficient and more integrated into overall business operations with improved OHS performance and compliance with legislation. OHSAS 18001 ensures a holistic approach to the identification and management of health and safety risks and therefore the potential for a healthier and safer working environment and the avoidance of accidents and occupational health problems to reduce the lost time through employee illness and injury.

Benefits of Compliance

  • Fulfils core requirements for ‘doing business’ with many Public and Private sector customers.
  • Demonstrates sound occupational health and safety performance.
  • Better management of health and safety risks, now and in the future.
  • Demonstrates your health and safety commitment to stakeholders.
  • Enhances the confidence and perception of your potential and existing clients, stakeholders and partners.
  • Demonstrates an innovative and forward thinking approach to customers and prospective employees.
  • Provides a solid foundation for further development of management systems to embrace other industry standards that are likely to become important in the future.
  • Healthier and safer working environment and the avoidance of a high proportion of accidents and occupational health problems – this should help reduce lost time through employee illness and injury.

How we help

We at Teamwork IMS specialise in implementing ISO Standards based service improvement programmes for many different types of organisations. We will design the system around your existing business and Health and Safety practices. We will help you to establish the necessary controls to ensure you are in compliance with relevant legislation, and help you identify and solve the areas of your business that do not comply to the OHSAS Standard.

In addition, OHSAS 18001 is designed to be compatible with other management system Standards such as ISO 9001 (Quality), ISO 14001 (Environmental) and ISO 27001 (Information Security). All or any combination of these complementary Standards can be integrated seamlessly. They share many principles, so choosing an Integrated Management System can provide you with outstanding value for money.