The ILO-OSH 2001 Safety Management System: An introduction

Key Elements of ILO-OSH 2001:

Policy (Plan)?:

• Clear statement of commitment to H&S .
• Set OSH(Occupational Safety & Health) targets and aim/objective
• Worker Consultation & Participation

Organizing (Plan):

• The employer should have a framework for? overall roles and responsibility for the protection of worker’s H&S ,?

• Provide leadership at all level for OSH activities in the organization by:
• Allocating responsibility and accountability,? Competence and Training
• OHSMS documentation
• Communication

Planning and implementation (Do):

The organization’s existing OHSMS and relevant arrangements should be assessed by an initial review.? (Detailed arrangements to manage H&S).

OSH management system should? have arrangement :

• System planning, development and implementation
• Occupational H&S objectives
• Risk assessment
• Hazard prevention
• Control measures
• Emergency preparedness and response
• Management of Change
• Procurement
• Contracting.

Evaluation (Check):

• Evaluation is a procedures to monitor, measure and record OSH performance on a regular basis .?
• Evaluation procedure should be developed & established to periodically review the OHSMS.?
• Examples :?
• Active Monitoring (Inspection/Audit),?
• Reactive Monitoring (Investigation),?
• Performance Monitoring?

• Responsibility, accountability and authority for monitoring at different levels in the management structure should be allocate for Investigation of work-related injuries, ill health, diseases and incidents, and their impact on H&S performance

Action for improvement (Act)

Arrangements should be established and maintained for any shortcoming(deficiency) in OHSMS and how to take preventive and corrective action ( e.g. CAPA- Corrective and Preventive Action).

Action for improvement emphasis on improvement by :?

• performance monitoring?
• ?measurement
• ?Audits?
• Management Reviews.

Audit

• Audit is an Independent, critical and systematic review of the O&HSMS.
• Audit includes:
• Arrangements to conduct periodic audits are to be established,
• to determine whether the OHSMS and its elements are in place and adequate,
• effective in protecting the H&S of workers to preventing incidents,
• Identifying & analyzing the root causes of any non-conformities with relevant OSH regulations .