Product Certifications OHSAS 18001:2007

What is OHSAS 18001…
The OHSAS 18001:2007 standard specifies the requirements for an Occupational Health and Safety Management System (SGSSL, Italian abbreviation for OHSAS), to allow an organization to control its occupational health and safety and to improve its performances

The OHSAS 18001:07 standard is applicable for any organization that aims at:
• establishing an Occupational Health and Safety Management System to eliminate or minimize the risks for the personnel and the other parts involved who might be exposed to any occupational danger associated with the company’s activities;
• implementing , maintaining and constantly improving an OHSAS;
• ensuring itself of its own conformity through the fulfilment of its OHS scheme;
• demonstrating the conformity of its own OHSAS by means of the OHSAS standard:
• producing an auto-declaration and assuring auto-determination, or requesting a confirmation of its conformity by the parts having an interest in the OHSAS, such as the customers, or requesting a certification or a report of its OHSAS from an outside organization.

Requirements
When talking about Occupational Health and Safety we mean: “Conditions and factors which influence or might influence the health and safety of the employees or of the other workers (including temporary workers or contractors’ personnel), visitors and any other person on the premises (cf. 3.23)".

The new version of the OHSAS 18001 represents an organizational instrument which enables to manage organically and systematically the safety of the workers without upsetting the company’s structural organization and at the same time it aims at the following requirements:
• the adoption of a policy for safety management;
• the definition of specific programmes and objectives by adopting the logic of the ‘Plan Do Check’ Act;
• the definition of duties and responsibilities;
• the formation, training and involvement of the personnel;
• the ways of consulting and communicating with the employees and the interested parties;
• the realization of the control conditions of the activities with identified important risks including processes such as design and maintenance;
• the preparation of actions which aim at identifying, preventing and controlling possible accidental events (accidents or avoided accidents) and emergencies;
• the monitoring and measuring of the performances of the health and safety system as well as the maintenance of the legislative conformity;
• the definition and realization of systemic controls (accidents, non-conformity, corrective and preventive actions) as well as recurrent controls about the inadequacy of the management system;
• the identifying and evaluation of the risks and dangers related to the activities carried out by third parties on the organization’s premises.

What are the advantages
Control and maintain the legislative conformity and monitor occupational health and safety on work premises. Comply with funding procedure terms and bureaucratic/administrative simplifications. Dispose of an instrument to help support decisions concerning investment or technological changes. Dispose of an instrument to help safeguard business estate. Guarantee an approach that is systematic and prearranged against emergencies due to accidents. Improve the relationship and communication with the authorities. Improve the business image towards the internal and external customer. Easy to intergrate with quality and environmental systems.