Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (OSHMS)

Certify to the standards

An organization
has established a systematic approach to control and
improve its occupational, health and safety performance. By
complying with the standards helps relevant organisations to
comply with legalrequirements set out by Occupational, safety
and health Act 1994 (Act514), Factory and Machinery Act 1967
(Act 139) and Petroleum (Safety Measures) Act 1984 (Act 302)
and their relevant regulations.

Certification cycle

application

Adequacy
audit

Standards used

National Standards
MS 1722:2011 Occupational Safety
and Health Management
Systems Requirements
(FIRST REVISION)
Association Standard (recognized
internationally)
OHSAS 18001:2007 Occupational,
health and safety
Management Systems Requirements

Compliance
audit
Reassessment
every 3 years
Yearly
surveillance

certification

Benefit of ceritification

1) fulfilling business and social responsibility on

environmental management
2) eliminate or minimise risk to employees and
other interested parties
3) safeguarding business and providing
customer, supplier and stakeholders
4) more money of OH&S incidents and accidents
as the cost of preventing OH&S incidents will be
lesser
5) Provide business with the competitive edge
to compete in the market place
7) increase staff morale and commitment in
OH&S
8) All of the above will increase profitability and
business security

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Clause 4- OHSMS requirements
Establish OHSMS based on the standard, document, implement,
maintain and improve.

Plan OHSMS:
a. Identifying OH&S hazards and assess risks.
i. Establish methodology and procedure to identify
hazards and assess OH&S risks
ii. Reduce OH&S risks by selecting the appropriate
controls
iii. Establish procedures to select controls
iv. Implement control selection procedures.
v. Maintain control selection procedures.
vi. identifying, document, implement environmental
aspects. Establish procedure on identifying
environmental aspects
b. identifying, document, implement legal and other
requirements. Establish procedure on identifying legal and
other requirements
c. establishing environmental objectives and targets and
establish programs to achieve those targets and
objectives

Check EMS by establishing :

a. procedures to monitor and measure
b. a procedure to periodically evaluate
compliance with all relevant legal environmental
requirements
c. procedure for incident investigation
d. procedure on managing actual and potential
non-conformity and the corrective and preventive actions
e. establishing record control procedure for the OH&S
f. internal audit procedure, conduct internal
audit and report result to management

Establish OH&S Policy, communicate to all staff, contractors or

any other person working on behalf of the organization and
public.

Manage implementation and operations of OHSMS:

a. identifying roles, responsibilities and authorities.
b. providing adequate resources to implement the systems
c. appointing management representative
d. providing relevant training and awareness programs.
e. Establish procedure to control internal and external
communication
f. Establish procedure for participation and consultation on
hazard identification, risk assessments and determination
of control, development and review.
g. Establish procedure on document control for OHSMS
h. Identify and implement those operations and activities
Implement operating criteria to reduce risks, maintain
health and safety procedures and controls and
maintain the operating criteria needed to control risks
i. Establish procedures to identify potential emergency
situations and accidents that could have an impact on the
OH&S and procedure of respond to actual emergency

Perform management review of the suitability, adequacy, and

effectiveness of OH&S by review inputs such as internal
audits, feedbacks from external parties and achievements of
objectives and targets. The output of management review to
include conclusion on the OH&S and decisions and actions
required continual improvement