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Safety Management System
Comprehensive Health and Safety
The question arises:
"We have no Safety Management System in place. What should we do?"
You need to put one in place.
Health and safety law requires you to have a health and safety Policy as well as appropriate arrangements for Planning, Organising, Controlling, Monitoring and Reviewing the health and safety precautions that you are required by law to have in place.
(Extract from - Pabiac Strategic Objective 3: Safety Management Systems. A self assessment tool for employers)
An Occupational Health and Safety Management System is critical in maintaining a healthy and safe working environment. It consists of a series of elements for establishing policy, objectives and arrangements for implementation and continual improvement.
(Extract from - BS 8800 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems)
OHSAS 18001
The Safety Management System is an integral part of the overall management system so that Occupational Health and Safety risks associated with the business of your organisation are adequately managed.
The scope includes the organisational structure, planning activities, responsibilities, practices, procedures, processes and resources for developing, implementing, achieving, reviewing and maintaining your organisation's Occupational Health and Safety policy.