An OHSAS 18001 Certification is a Certification Standard developed by the Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series Project Group. This group had come into being during a when there were multiple Occupational Health and Safety Assessment standards were developed to saturation and the occupational health and safety management standard had deteriorated due to the incompetence of the multiple individual standards. Thus, several bodies came together to create this project that composed of many individual organisations like accreditation bodies, academic institutions, certification bodies, while the UK’s BSI Group gave them the chance to use their secretariat.
There were discussions and deliberations and after many of these tireless talks about the future of the OHSAS 18001 Certification in Dubai, numerous reports, and publications were created that gauged the amount as well as the extent of measures that needed to be implemented so as to ascertain total prevention of any hazards and preservation of health. The Group managed to publish the OHSAS 18000 series somewhere around 1999. It contained both the OHSAS 18001 and the 18002 Standards. The former provided the principles and the latter gave guidance towards implementation of the OHSAS 18001 in the field.
When a person/organisation moves towards getting certified with an OHSAS 18001 certification in Dubai, there needs to be prudence and vigilance. There needs to be reformed into the system which utilises several accessories so that when the time arrives for the certification body to examine the factory or office, you will be prepared.
- An organisation needs to prepare for the Certification by creating the Occupation Healthy and Safety Management System that is based on an Occupation Health and Safety (OHS) manual that measures the scope of the system that is proportionate to your resources.
- Secondly, the company or the organisation needs to have within their documents an established occupational, health and safety policy in addition to a multitude of OHS objectives as well as programmes.
- After a complete comprehension of the manual, then there is to be taken a decision to create a holistic procedure that keenly identifies the hazards and other obstructions towards reaching a safety pinnacle for the factory. This needs to be done physically inside the work area and finally consummating it by creating a blueprint.
- When undertaking this operation, there needs to be a guarantee that it doesn’t fall into disarray, therefore, every single individual’s role inside the corporation must be defined and specified so that they will not overlap or come into conflict with each other at any moment of the implementation phase.
When organisations implement the OHSAS, they will be availing numerous benefits that come along with the successful implementation of an OHSAS System. Succinctly, these are the several benefits that you will be able to get after a successful implementation of the OHSAS 18001 Certification in Dubai:
- You will have established an OH&S management system that will minimise or eliminate the risk of there being accidents on the site of production and manufacturing. Employees will be safer and rules won’t be flouted.
- There will be conformance with the said OH&S Policy that will be the guiding principle.
- This will in turn showcase that you are earnest in your commitment towards safety.
- You will, in turn, maintain the OHSAS standard by having it continually revised so that all the updates that came up with the standard will also be in included.
- Will let you be compatible with the other standards of the International Organisation for Standardization.
The OHSAS has now been taken over by the British Standards that makes the OHSAS 18001 standard easily compatible with other ISO Standards such as the ISO 14001 and the ISO 9000, so that their individual benefits can be galvanised into a single standard that will give the company/factory complete protection and assessment of all the possible risks and consequences of their actions.
There are several OHSAS Consultants who will do the job helping you achieve the perfect certification ready occupation health and safety management system that will pass the audit during the first attempt at doing so. These consultants have had several years of field experience and expertise in the subject that enables them to do their work with utmost prudence and deft skill. Their leadership and advisory abilities will have your employees and the business operations working in seamless fluidity and all your safety checks in place.
