OHSAS 18001 2007

OH&S TRANSLATED INTO PLAIN ENGLISH

4.1
General Requirements

Establish an OHSMS for your Organization

• Develop an occupational health and safety management system.

• Document occupational health and safety management system.

• Implement occupational health and safety management system.

• Maintain occupational health and safety management system.

• Improve occupational health and safety management system.

4.2
Policy Requirements

Develop an OH&S Policy for your Organization

• Define your organization’s health and safety policy.

• Document your organization’s health and safety policy.

• Implement your organization’s health and safety policy.

• Maintain your organization’s health and safety policy.

• Communicate your organization’s health and safety 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 hazards
    and assess your organization’s risks.

  • Establish procedures to identify hazards
    and assess your organization’s risks.

  • Implement your hazard identification and
    risk assessment methods and procedures.

  • Maintain your hazard identification and
    risk assessment methods and procedures.

• Reduce OH&S risks by selecting your controls.

  • Establish procedures to select your controls.

  • Implement your control selection procedures.

  • Maintain your 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 organization’s OHSMS.

• Keep your organization’s 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 organization’s OH&S objectives.

  • Develop objectives for your organization.

  • Implement your organization’s objectives.

• Establish your organization’s OH&S programs.

  • Develop programs to achieve your objectives.

  • Implement programs to achieve your objectives.

  • Maintain programs to achieve your 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 worker health and safety.

• Maintain records which show that people who have an
  impact on worker health and safety are in fact competent.

• Identify your organization's health and safety training needs.

• Establish health and safety training methods and procedures.

• Provide training to meet your organization's safety training needs.

• Evaluate the overall effectiveness of your safety training activities.

• Maintain a record of your safety training activities and results.

• Establish a procedure to make personnel aware of safety.

• Implement your organization's awareness procedure.

• Maintain your organization's awareness procedure.

4.4.3 Establish Communication and Participation

4.4.3.1 Establish OH&S Communication Procedures

• Establish an internal communication procedure.

  • Develop a procedure to control internal communications.

  • Implement your internal communications procedure.

  • Maintain your internal communications procedure.

• Establish a contractor and visitor communication procedure.

  • Develop a procedure to control how you communicate
    about worker safety with your contractors and visitors.

  • Implement a procedure to control how you communicate
    about worker safety with your contractors and visitors.

  • Maintain a procedure to control how you communicate
    about worker safety with your contractors and visitors.

• Establish an external 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 safety 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 safety matters.

4.4.4 Document your Organization's OHSMS

• Document your workers' health and safety policy.

• Document your workers' health and safety objectives.

• Document the scope of your health and safety system.

• Document the elements (parts) of your safety system.

• Document how the elements of your system interact.

4.4.5 Control your Organization's OH&S Documents

• Control documents required by OHSAS 18001 2007.

• Establish a procedure to control health and safety documents.

• Implement your health and safety document control procedure.

• Maintain your health and safety document control procedure.

• Control your health and safety management records.

4.4.6 Implement Operational OH&S Control Measures

• Identify those operations and activities that should
  use controls to manage hazards and reduce risks.

• Implement controls to manage hazards and reduce risks.

• Implement documented procedures to reduce your risks.

• Implement operating criteria to reduce your risks.

• Maintain your health and safety procedures and controls.

• Maintain the operating criteria needed to control your risks.

4.4.7 Establish an OH&S Emergency Management Process

• Establish emergency management procedures.

• Test your emergency management procedures.

• Implement your emergency management procedures.

• Review your emergency management procedures.

• Revise your 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.

• 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 OH&S Incidents

• Establish procedures to investigate incidents.

• Implement your incident investigation procedures.

• Maintain your 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 organization’s 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.

• Communicate management review outputs.

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