Today, a business without an effective occupational health and safety management system in place is extremely vulnerable to the cost of liability and lost working hours resulting from accidents at work. Whatever the nature, or size of your business, implementing an occupational health and safety system is common sense as well as a legal requirement in many countries world-wide. With a registered occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS) you won’t just be doing the right thing you will also be seen to be doing the right thing.
Four-D is experienced in implementing effective OHSMS’s based on the OHSAS 18001 standard. Based on the established principles of Plan Do Check Act, it focuses on the reduction of risk coupled with improved performance. Registration of a management system based on OHSAS 18001 demonstrates your responsibility to your employees, your clients, your stakeholders and society as a whole by ensuring your company does everything in its power to reduce health and safety risks.
Reasons for setting up an OHSAS 18001 system:
A well developed and implemented OHSAS 18001 occupational health and safety management system enables:
Planning for hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control
Making occupational health and safety a top priority in the organisation
Establishing clear roles, responsibilities and authorities for personnel who manage, perform and verify activities having an effect on the OH&S risks of the organisation’s activities and processes
Ensuring personnel are competent to perform tasks that may impact on OH&S in the workplace
Having plans and procedures in place to identify the potential for, and subsequent responses to emergency situations
Benefits from setting up an OHSAS 18001 system
Reduction in costs of liability, workers compensation and medical treatment
Elimination or reduction of the incidences of injury in the workplace
Demonstrate to stakeholders that the company has a strong OHSMS
