OHSAS 18001 2007 OH&S Standard in 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).

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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.

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 organization’s OH&S policy. Document your organization’s OH&S policy. Implement your organization’s OH&S policy. Maintain your organization’s OH&S policy. Communicate your organization’s 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 organization’s risks.
- Establish procedures to identify OH&S hazards
  and assess your organization’s 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 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 OH&S objectives for your organization. Implement your organization’s OH&S objectives. Establish your organization’s OH&S programs. Develop programs to achieve your OH&S objectives. Implement programs to achieve your OH&S objectives. Maintain programs to achieve your OH&S objectives.

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 organization’s 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.
- 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 organization’s OH&S policy. Document your organization’s 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. 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 organization’s 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 and measure OH&S performance.
Implement your OH&S monitoring and measurement procedures.
Maintain your OH&S monitoring and measurement procedures.
Record the results of your monitoring and measurement activities.
Establish procedures for monitoring and measurement equipment.
Implement procedures for monitoring and measurement equipment.
Maintain procedures for monitoring and 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 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.

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4.4 Implementation Requirements	4.4.1 Establish Responsibility and Accountability
	Ask your top management to accept responsibility for OH&S. Make sure that 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.

	4.5.4 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.

OHSAS 18001 2007

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY