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what is
osius or Oh H SAS 18001 and what's the
mean for your business stay tuned
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so thanks for joining us what we're
talking about today or what we're we're
answering today is the question what's
18001 we do get that question a lot here
in the office of best practice what
18001 is is a standard it's an it's an
international standard but it was
initially adopted as a British standard
so technically it's British standard
occupational health and safety
assessment system 18001
it was released in 2007 now there is a
small catch it's soon on the horizon
probably in 2018
there'll be an international standard
that will supersede it ISO 45,000 one
but that's for another video let's talk
about 18,000 one gets straight into it
what it is is it's a management system
for occupational health and safety and
it's designed to complement your quality
management system iso 9001 type system
and your environmental management system
- iso 14001 so if you were to develop
your management system with quality and
environment and safety you'd have an
integrated management system which is
quite an exciting opportunity so what
I'm going to do for you now is just
quickly lay out some of the key
categories in the cycle of continual
improvement that lay out the 18001
management system structure now there's
lots of stuff available on Wikipedia so
we'll pop a link to the 18001 article on
Wikipedia and you can start to knock out
and do a little bit more research but
this is a quick high-level introduction
into what the standard is in terms of
its structure and what you can use it to
do so the first thing obviously and
we'll just go close by close through the
standard is to have an H and s policy so
this policy is calling for three
fundamental commitments obviously a
commitment to workplace safety and
minimizing incidents and accidents and
injuries and making the workplace safer
a commitment to compliance with legal
and other requirements codes of practice
industry standards and then a commitment
to continually improvement so we've got
those three commitments don't forget
those when you're writing your policy
now the next part that comes after
drafting if you like that policy is to
start to think about your occupational
health and safety planning processes so
do you have an occupational health and
safety management plan for your
organization or for your site or for
your project or for your business or
your for your global business so what
are the ways that you are dead
- fire hazards and risks so if you know
about risk management it's got this
planning process so what we're doing is
we're planning now that is for normal
operating conditions and also emergency
conditions and we can go into that in a
little bit more a little bit more
in-depth standard processes and an
emergency processes so we've got
planning we need to consider our
obviously our processes we need to
consider our legal requirements and we
need to consider industry standards now
that's not everything obviously there's
a whole lot more to that planning
process we can talk about you know stuff
that's happened in the past the
incidents accidents audit results of
audits all that sort of stuff but really
quickly we're talking about setting a
policy building out a plan and we're
doing and I'm going to write an acronym
I apologize for that but it's hierarch
hazard identification so hazard
identification risk assessment and
control hazard identification risk
assessment and control and that's part
of this process now what the standard
jumps into now is talking about
objectives and targets that's a little
bit tricky to do it in these steps and
and I do find that people often have
there's a small part of their struggle
in terms of building out their
objectives and targets now I would jump
before I go into objectives and targets
across to this section over here which
is monitoring and measurement and I like
to call it if you watch lots of our
videos here at best practice the
dashboard or your scoreboard now what is
that I like to say it's lots of
performances over time graphs there's
our graph tracking our performance and
the last one here might be something we
want to reduce our injuries and our
incidents that's our dashboard so
framing up the sorts of things that we
might be monitoring and measuring an
initial look at it then we can come
across and we can say what are our
objectives and targets so there's a
benchmark for example a red benchmark or
a limit and upper limit or a target
point
those are objectives and targets if that
makes sense and it makes it really
simple what are we going to measure
let's set ourselves a plan then what we
can do is we can go back into what we
call management review which is sitting
up here and redraft our policy as an
output so that's our cycle of continual
improvement and we keep leveling up
leveling up leveling up now there's
obviously a bunch of other things that
we can do in this process to understand
what is I so I think that all OSHA 18001
there's obviously a bunch of other
things that we can do in this process to
understand 18001 but ultimately it's
about plan do if you like somewhere in
here check and act now I might have some
critics out there in the industry but
I'm just going to highlight them for you
we've got plan do check and act and
that's really simply what 18001 is it's
a management system that has policy
planning objectives and targets
monitoring and measurement and then back
up here to management review now when we
do this plan obviously we can do lots of
things like we can have procedures we
can have training we can have
communications we can have emergency
plans you know consultation all of those
other headings of the standard that's
about writing all the stuff down
ultimately we've got our objectives and
targets and we've got our monitoring
measurement and all this stuff here that
we put into our plan is sits just before
here but there are controls there all
the different ways that we're going to
control this performance and I have got
an acronym for that
that's who what when where how why our
commitments over here so I hope that
helps you that's a really basic quick
summary on what is oh wait yes I yes
18001 we'll start some links to some
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