OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ASSESSMENT SERIES

OHSAS 18001: 2009 Occupational Health and safety management Systems - Specifications
This standard prescribes requirements for an OH&SMS to enable an organization to formulate its policies and objectives to protect its employees and others, whose health and safety may be affected by the activities of the organization. The extent of application depends on nature of activities, complexity of its operations.

Integrated Management System

ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 have common elements between them. These can be integrated to a single, management system or a combination of the above. Audit of joint systems is available and best cost effective method for some companies. Integrated System not only help an organizations internally, by reducing duplication and providing a centralized document control system, results in cost benefits in third party audits.