Overview

Occupational Health & • OHSAS 18001 - Internationally recognized • Performance measuring, monitoring and
Safety System •
assessment specification for OH & S.
Can be adopted by any organization •
improvement
It is an auditable protocol, against which a
wishing to implement a formal procedure company's health and safety management

ISO-18000 to reduce the risks associated with health

and safety in the working environment for
employees, customers and the general
•
system can be assessed
It does not state specific OH&S
performance criteria or specifications for
public design of a management system
• The following key areas are addressed by • Intended to address OH&S for employees,
OHSAS 18001: temporary employees, contractors,
– Planning for hazard identification, visitors and other personnel on-site
risk assessment and risk control • Not intended to cover product and service
– OHSAS management programme safety No accreditation scheme based on
– Structure and responsibility OHSAS 18001 offered by any national
– Training, awareness and competence accreditation body e.g. RAB, UKAS, RvA,
etc.Certification bodies can only issue
– Consultation and communication
non-accredited certificates for OHSAS
– Operational control 18001 e.g. Certificate of Conformance
– Emergency preparedness and
response

OHSAS 18001 Important Definitions

Terms Definitions – OHSAS 18000
• The OHSAS 18000 series is the emerging standard sets for Hazard Source or Situation with a potential for harm in terms of
occupational safety and health human injury or ill health, Damage in property, damage
to the workplace environment, or a combination of these

• “OHSM Systems Specification“ - developed in need for a recognized Risk Combination of the likelihood and consequence of
occurrence of a specified hazardous event
OHSAS standard against which occupational safety management systems can
be assessed
• It covers issues such as planning for hazard identification, risk
Risk Assessment Overall process of estimating the magnitude of risk and
18001 assessment/control, OHS management, awareness and competence,
training, communication, emergency preparedness and response,
performance measuring and improvement
deciding whether or not the risk is tolerable

Accident Undesired event giving rise to death, ill health, injury,

damage or other loss
Incident Event that gave rise to an accident or had to potential to
OHSAS • Provides guidelines for the implementation of OHSAS 18001. It
explains the requirements of this and how to work towards
lead to an accident ( including near-miss)

18002 implementation/registration
Harm The direct or indirect degradation, temporary or permanent,
of the physical, mental, or social well-being of workers.

Scope of OHSAS OHSAS

Promotion & maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social
well-being of workers
Health Safety
The prevention of adverse effects on the health of workers caused by their
working conditions
Health Issues are difficult to confront Safety issues are easier to spot and
The protection of workers in their employment from risks resulting from factors Effect visible in long durations assess
adverse to health
A Healthy workplace is a safe Can cause immediate loss/damage
Creating and maintaining an occupational environment adapted to physical and workplace A safe workplace may not be a
mental needs of the workers
Exposure to hazards in the workplace healthy workplace

The adaptation of work to humans can lead to serious illness. Unsafe workplace can lead to
Also deals with social and mental well accidents and incidents
Consideration of issues relating to occupational medicine, industrial hygiene, being of the workers
toxicology, education, engineering safety, ergonomics, psychology, etc
 Hazard Assessment Flow Risk Assessment Flow

Identify &
Identify Control the Identify
Assess the Identify all Assess how prioritize
Individual Eliminate the Hazard to Individual Evaluate
effect of each affected by are they appropriate
Hazards at Hazard permissible Hazards at the Risk
hazard Hazard affected control
Workplace limits Workplace
measures

• Modern occupational safety and health legislation usually demands that

a risk assessment be carried out prior to making an intervention
• Control or elimination should be as close to the source (location of the • Risk management requires risk to be managed to a level which is as low as
hazard) as reasonable and possible. is reasonably practical.
• As technology, resources, social expectation or regulatory requirements • Assessment of Risk based on Severity, Frequency & Detectability
change, hazard analysis focuses control/elimination closer to the source of • Qualitatively, Risk Management is the description of the circumstances by
hazard. which the harm could arise
• hazard control is a dynamic program of prevention – Continuous process • The assessment should be recorded and reviewed periodically and
• A hazard-based program may not be able to eliminate all risks, but neither whenever there is a significant change to work practices
does it accept "satisfactory" -- but still risky—outcomes. • Once recommended controls are implemented, the risk should be
re-calculated to determine if it has been lowered to an acceptable level

Psychosocial Hazards Considerations while setting OH&S objectives

Work-related stress, whose causal factors include excessive working time
and overwork The following should be considered when
Mental abnormality
establishing objectives:
Physical disability ( Color Blind, hearing impaired)
Violence

Bullying, which may include emotional and verbal abuse

• Legal and other requirements
Sexual harassment • Hazards and risks
Mobbing • Technological options
Burnout • Financial, operational and business requirements
Exposure to unhealthy elements during meetings with business associates,
• Views of interested parties
e.g. tobacco, uncontrolled alcohol
Error in Operating and Supervising

Proactive measures:
• Assessments of compliance with legal &
regulatory OH&S requirements
• Effective use of results of workplace safety
tours/inspections
• Evaluation of effective OH&S training
Develop
Methodology • Use of perception surveys to evaluate OH&S
Identify hazards culture
Assess risks
Determine controls • Use of internal & external audits
• Completion of legally required inspections
Operational control • Effectiveness of employee participation process
Management of • Benchmarking against good OH&S practices
change
• Work activity assessments

Checking
Corrective action
Reactive Measures
• Monitoring of ill health
• Occurrences & rates of incidents & ill health • Environmental, health, and safety (EHS)
• Lost time incident rates, lost time ill health policy
rates • This Policy establishes HPE’s standards for
• Actions required following assessments by providing products and services that are safe
regulatory agencies and environmentally sound throughout their
• Actions following receipt of comments from lifecycles. It outlines how we proactively
interested parties reduce occupational injury and illness risks.

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• An environmentally responsible supply chain helps us • Emergency preparedness and crisis management
to ensure we remain a trusted sourcing provider and
indirectly reduces our customers’ environmental • Emergency preparedness and crisis management
footprint. In 2017, we established the world’s first programs exist for chemical releases,
science-based supply chain management program to
reduce the impact of our manufacturing suppliers. evacuations, fires, natural disasters, security
We expect the program will enable 80% of our threats, and other emergencies. Response teams
manufacturing suppliers, by spend, to set and employees are trained on emergency
science-based targets (SBTs), potentially avoiding the
equivalent of 100 million tons of emissions. response procedures and regularly participate in
• Through the program, we aim to reduce the absolute evacuation and other drills.
manufacturing-related GHG emissions in our supply
chain by 15% from 2015 levels by 2025

At HP...........................................
• Injury and illness prevention • Environmental performance
• HPE requires that every work-related injury and • Environmental performance for HPE
illness be reported, investigated, and tracked to operations is included in the Living Progress
identify trends and target our injury prevention programs, data, and global objectives. Our
activities. Reporting work-related injuries and
primary focus is on reducing carbon
correcting the workplace hazards that caused
emissions through use of renewable energy
them is a legal requirement in many countries
where HPE operates. Learn more in our Living and minimizing landfill through reuse and
Progress Report. recycling programs.
 Case Example : DMRC

• Partnerships Delhi Metro Rail Corporation claims to accords high

priority to environment, Occupational Health and Safety in
• Our partners are required to meet our maintenance of stations, structures and systems. In this
endeavour the following are the aims ,as stated by them:
supplier SER requirements and comply with • To strive for continual improvement in the environment, health
and safety policies, processes and procedures.
our global supply chain standards to • To comply with local and national environment ,health and
minimize environmental impact from the safety laws.
• To make all-out efforts to create environment, health and safety
materials through the end of life recycling awareness amongst our employees, metro users and
and take back programs. maintenance personnel.
• To maintain assets so as to enhance their aesthetic appeal,
optimize the use of energy, cause minimum negative impact to
the environment and to ensure safety of the personnel.

Challenges Future Of OHSAS

• Faced with a number of health and safety challenges. • Moving upstream from correction to prevention. As
• To increase ownership of health and safety issues at more legislation and regulations require
self-governance ,more organizations are implementing
both organisational and individual level. internal audit programs. A key element of these audit
• Desire to move away from the previous programs is using audit findings to identify the need
“prescriptive” approach contained in BS 8800 , along for corrective and preventive actions.
with the need to support a positive health and safety • Emphasis on the business case for good OHS
culture practices. Rather than viewing EHS issues as simply
problems to avoid, organizations have begun to realize
• Evaluate the health and safety management system that there can be significant ”bottom line” impacts as
against a global standards. well.

• Nanotechnology Safety. More and more

Conclusion
products and processes are utilizing
nanotechnology. Unfortunately, we don’t
know the long-term health effects that may be -Environmental, health and safety issues are
associated with exposure to these materials. often the result of lack of knowledge of long
• Global economic dynamics related to OHS. term impacts, and often the result of poor
As industries move to developing countries, decisionsorprocesses,mistakesinotherwords. But,
there will be growing pressures to address very often deliberate decisions are made to
ignore rules, bury adverse research, and seek
environmental, health and safety concerns in
short term financial gain over long term
a globally consistent manner
environmental responsibility.
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