OHSAS 18001 is Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series is basic globally recognized and popular standard for occupational health and safety management systems. It exists to help all organizations irrespective of its type, size and sector put in place demonstrably sound occupational health and safety performance.
Main Purpose of OHSAS 18001 in Kuwait:-
The management of Occupational health and safety system (OHS) in an Organization depends on the workplace, process implementation and human resources skill set, attitude, etc. The organization considers achieving OHS to assure the regulatory bodies, customers and other stakeholders. An OHSAS 18001 certified Kuwait for organization indicates it commitment on employee health and safety, demonstrate its ability to manage risks and hazards at workplace and provide assurance to comply with legal requirements to all management stakeholders including customers.
OHSAS 18001 implementation is a systematic framework approach of following repeated steps:-
1. Identification of risk and hazard at workplace
2. Documentation of risk with relevant information to prioritize the risks identified.
3. Analysis of the identified risks and troubleshoot opportunity to minimize the hazard
4. Plan to implement the process to control health and safety for the risk
5. Review the process by considering the facts gathered at workplace
6. Plan to improve the process and document the process.
OHSAS 18001 implementation is a systematic PDCA framework approach of following repeated steps:
Plan
1. Identification of business objectives
2. Document management perspective on OHS policy.
3. Define scope of OHS policy.
4. Define a method of risk assessment
5. Prepare an inventory of control procedures torisk and health hazards and rank assets according to risk classification based on risk assessment.
Do
1. Define risk treatment plan to control the risks.
2. Document policies and procedures on risk Control.
3. Identify human resources and train them.
Check
1. Monitor the implementation of the Occupational Health and safety management systems .
2. Prepare for the certification audit.
Act
1. Conduct periodic reassess of risk control processes to implement
a) Continual improvement
b) Corrective action
c) Preventive action
Benefits of OHSAS 18001 Certification in
Kuwait:
The following are the benefits to an OHSAS 18001 certified organization:-
5. Promote to gain employee trust as it demonstrate organization’s commitment towards better workplace for health and safety
6. Emergency preparedness and response.
Certification Process:-
The Organization seeking for certification should approach a third party consultancy. The team of consultant firm would first visit the Organization workplace to assess the Health and safety management, it would provide Gap analysis and document the changes to the processes and implementation to the organization. A review of the process is carried out to evaluate the improvements or enhancements. Based on the results the consultancy firm should help in process of filing application and getting certification.
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