Security management can be summarized as sum of all management functions that determines occupational health and safety in organization of the company.Security Management System contains all the structures,responsibilities,procedures,processes and recourses that are needed in order to carry out security management. OHSAS 18000 Occupational Health and Safety Standarts are the standarts that are formed in order to create a safe and healthy work environment for the task force and to ensure its continuity
OHSAS 18000 Series Structure
The aim of all requirements of this standard is to be included in any occupational health and safety management system. Extent of this application will bound up with the factors such as corporation's occupation health and safety policy and risks and complexities of practises. The aim of this standart is taking occupational health and safety into consideration rather than product and service safety (TS OHSAS 18001:2004).OHSAS 18000 is the combination of OHSAS 18001 Occupation Health and Safety Management System standard and OHSAS 18002 Occupational Health and Safety General Conditions guide. There isn't an ISO-published standard about this subject
OHSAS 18001 is developed by a group of major licensing corporations, consulting companies and national standard corporations. Being developed by such corporations that are closely acquianted with companies made application of this standard much easier than previously published standards.Biggest advantage of setting up an occupational health and safety management system based on OHSAS 18001 is being able to integrate it to current ISO 9000 or ISO 14001 management systems easily.
Elements of Occupational Health and Safery Management Systems
All OHSAS standards aim to contain all sorts of work health and safety within the management system. Success of this practice depends on three factors: Work health and safety policy, characteristics of activity and risk standing, complexity of operations.
Work health and safety system contains resorces and processes to develop, implement, succeed in, evaluate and sustain work health and safety policy, organizational structure, action plans, responsibilities, applications,procedures.
With practical techniques, OHSAS 18001 is a health and safety system with a broad scope and depth designed to provide active management of safety and health in organizations.
OHSAS 18001 standard lays out the necessities that are required in wok safety management system formed to control work health and safety risks and ensure sustainability.
This standard can be applied in any organisation that wants to achieve the goals below.
- Setting up an occupational healthy and safety system in order to minimize or eliminate the risks caused by the activities of employees and other related groups.
- Implementation,maintenance and constant improvement of occupational health and safety systems
- Pledging to comply occupational health and safety policies.
- Showing this pledge to others
- Licensing occupational health and safety management system.