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OHSAS 18001 2007


OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDARD TRANSLATED INTO PLAIN ENGLISH

The OHSAS 18001 standard is an occupational health and safety (OH&S) standard. Use it to establish your occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS). This page presents a preview of OHSAS 18001. It does not present the entire plain English standard. If you need the complete detailed standard, please consider purchasing our OHSAS 18001 2007 Translated into Plain English (Title 65).

OHSAS 18001 defines a set of occupational health and safety management system requirements. These requirements are listed in sections 4.1 to 4.6. Therefore, the following OHSAS 18001 material starts with section 4.1.

OHSAS 18001 2007 OH&S REQUIREMENTS


4.1 General Requirements Establish an OHSMS for your Organization

Develop an OHSMS that complies with OHSAS 18001. Document your OHSMS in accordance with OHSAS 18001. Implement your OHSMS in accordance with OHSAS 18001. Maintain your OHSMS in accordance with OHSAS 18001. Improve your OHSMS in accordance with OHSAS 18001.

4.2 Policy Requirements

Develop an OH&S Policy for your Organization

Define your organizations OH&S policy. Document your organizations OH&S policy.

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Implement your organizations OH&S policy. Maintain your organizations OH&S policy. Communicate your organizations OH&S policy.

4.3 Planning Requirements

4.3.1 Analyze OH&S Hazards and Select Controls

Identify OH&S hazards and assess your risks.

Develop a methodology to identify OH&S hazards and assess your organizations risks. Establish procedures to identify OH&S hazards and assess your organizations risks. Implement your OH&S hazard identification and risk assessment methods and procedures. Maintain your OH&S hazard identification and risk assessment methods and procedures.

Reduce OH&S risks by selecting your controls.


Establish procedures to select your OH&S controls. Implement your OH&S control selection procedures. Maintain your OH&S control selection procedures.

4.3.2 Respect Legal and Nonlegal OH&S Requirements

Establish procedures to identify and access the legal and nonlegal OH&S requirements that apply to your organization. Respect all legal and nonlegal requirements when you establish your organizations OHSMS. Keep your organizations legal and nonlegal OH&S regulatory information up to date. Communicate information about your regulatory OH&S information to all interested participants.

4.3.3 Establish OH&S Objectives and Programs

Establish your organizations OH&S objectives.


Develop OH&S objectives for your organization. Implement your organizations OH&S objectives.

Establish your organizations OH&S programs.

Develop programs to achieve your OH&S objectives.

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Implement programs to achieve your OH&S objectives. Maintain programs to achieve your OH&S objectives.

4.4 Implementation Requirements

4.4.1 Establish Responsibility and Accountability

Ask your top management to accept responsibility for OH&S. Make sure management demonstrates a commitment to OH&S. Appoint a member of management to manage and control OH&S. Make sure that your workers take responsibility for OH&S.

4.4.2 Ensure Competence and Provide Training

Ensure the competence of people who perform tasks that could have an impact on OH&S. Maintain records which show that people who have an impact on OH&S are in fact competent. Identify your organizations OH&S training needs. Establish OH&S training methods and procedures. Provide training to meet your OH&S training needs. Evaluate the effectiveness of your OH&S training activities. Maintain a record of OH&S training activities and results. Establish a procedure to make people aware of OH&S. Implement your OH&S awareness procedure. Maintain your OH&S awareness procedure.

4.4.3 Establish Communication and Participation

4.4.3.1 Establish OH&S Communication Procedures

Establish an internal OH&S communication procedure.


Develop a procedure to control internal communications. Implement your internal communications procedure. Maintain your internal communications procedure.

Establish a contractor and visitor OH&S communication procedure.

Develop a procedure to control how you communicate about OH&S with your contractors and visitors.

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Implement a procedure to control how you communicate about OH&S with your contractors and visitors. Maintain a procedure to control how you communicate about OH&S with your contractors and visitors.

Establish an external OH&S communication procedure.


Develop a procedure to control external communications. Implement a procedure to control external communications. Maintain a procedure to control external communications.

4.4.3.2 Establish OH&S Participation and Consultation

Establish a worker participation procedure.


Develop a procedure to manage worker involvement. Implement your worker participation procedure. Maintain your worker participation procedure. Consult with workers about OH&S matters.

Consult with contractors and other parties.


Develop a procedure to manage contractor involvement. Implement your contractor participation procedure. Maintain your contractor participation procedure. Consult with external parties about OH&S matters.

4.4.4 Document your Organization's OHSMS

Document your organizations OH&S policy. Document your organizations OH&S objectives. Document the scope (boundary) of your OHSMS. Document the elements (parts) of your OHSMS. Document how the elements of your OHSMS interact.

4.4.5 Control your Organization's OH&S Documents

Control documents required by OHSAS 18001. Establish a procedure to control OH&S documents. Implement your OH&S document control procedure. Maintain your OH&S document control procedure.

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Control your OH&S management records.

4.4.6 Implement Operational OH&S Control Measures

Identify those operations and activities that should use controls to manage OH&S hazards and reduce risks. Implement controls to manage OH&S hazards and reduce risks. Implement documented procedures to reduce your OH&S risks. Implement operating criteria to reduce your OH&S risks. Maintain your organizations OH&S procedures and controls. Maintain the operating criteria needed to control OH&S risks.

4.4.7 Establish an OH&S Emergency Management Process

Prepare for emergency situations that could impact OH&S. Establish OH&S emergency management procedures. Test your OH&S emergency management procedures. Implement your OH&S emergency management procedures. Review your OH&S emergency management procedures. Revise your OH&S emergency management procedures.

4.5 Checking Requirements

4.5.1 Monitor and Measure your OH&S Performance

Establish procedures to monitor & measure OH&S performance. Implement your OH&S monitoring & measurement procedures. Maintain your OH&S monitoring & measurement procedures. Record the results of your monitoring & measurement activities. Establish procedures for monitoring & measurement equipment. Implement procedures for monitoring & measurement equipment. Maintain procedures for monitoring & measurement equipment.

4.5.2 Evaluate Legal and Nonlegal Compliance

4.5.2.1 Evaluate Compliance with Legal Requirements

Establish a procedure to periodically evaluate how well your organization complies with legal OH&S requirements.

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Record the results of your legal OH&S compliance evaluations.

4.5.2.2 Evaluate Compliance with Nonlegal Requirements

Establish a procedure to periodically evaluate how well your organization complies with nonlegal (other) OH&S requirements. Record the results of your nonlegal OH&S compliance evaluations.

4.5.3 Investigate Incidents and Take Remedial Action

4.5.3.1 Investigate your Organization's OH&S Incidents


Establish procedures to investigate OH&S incidents. Implement your OH&S incident investigation procedures. Maintain your OH&S incident investigation procedures.

4.5.3.2 Take Corrective and Preventive Action


Establish nonconformity management procedures. Implement your nonconformity management procedures. Maintain your nonconformity management procedures.

4.5.4 Establish and Control OH&S Records

Establish OH&S records for your organization. Maintain your organizations OH&S records. Develop procedures to control your OH&S records. Implement your OH&S record keeping procedures.

4.5.5 Conduct Internal Audits of your OHSMS

Establish an internal OHSMS audit program. Implement your internal OHSMS audit program. Maintain your internal OHSMS audit program.

4.6 Review Requirements

Review the Performance of your OHSMS

Review your OHSMS by examining inputs. Assess the results of your management reviews. Generate OHSMS management review outputs.

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Communicate management review outputs.

OHSAS 18001 IS AN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDARD

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