OHSAS 18001:2007 is the International Occupational Health and Safety Management Standard. It was published in July 2007, superseding OHSAS 18001, and is intended to address occupational health and safety (OH&S) rather than product safety. An occupational health and safety management system will place the basic requirements for a safe and secure environment. This will ensure that your business practices the right methods and standards to give your employees a safe and secure time at work. It should be the aim of every company to achieve the maximum returns for your employees. For this you would have to implement quality standards in the occupational health and safety management system. the most important asset of every organization would be their employees. Every company performs best when its employees are generating the best results and are optimizing on the quality being delivered. To have an OHSAS 18001 certification, you would have to implement different approaches toward the standards. You would have to discover the best ways to put certain processes and practices into place. OHSAS 18001 provides a framework to the effective management of OH&S including compliance with the legislation that applies to your activities and identified hazards. In layman’s terms, it provides a framework to identify, control and reduce the risks associated with health and safety in the organization’s workplace.

What are the benefits of having an OH&SMS?

Legal requirements complied: cISO 18000 implementation helps organization maintaining legal requirements related to workers health & safety at their work places.

Credibility and image of the company improves: As the certification ensures the workers health & safety, it helps in improving credibility and image over the customers of the organization.

Reduce employee turnover. It further reduces employees turnover as the confidence of the employees increases with the guarantee of health and safety so they would like to stay with the company for long times ultimately indirect profit to the organizations.

Process improvement. Continual improvement is an integral part of OHSAS 18001, and this can be used to help your organization make improvements and enhancements in your organizational processes. By involving your people in process improvements, you can find savings not only in health & safety, but also in the time and resources needed to do the work.