Occupational safety and health management systems (OSHMS) form the cornerstone of any organisation’s attempt to comply with the requirements of corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, business risk management principles.
As with any management system, an OSHMS needs to be fully integrated into the normal organisational and operational processes of the organisation. In his report on guidance for company directors on their obligations under the Combined Code, Nigel Turnbull used the term “embedded”, that’s to say they should be built in, not bolted on.
All management systems in the areas of quality, environment, business resilience and health and safety follow a similar framework, US management guru William Edwards
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To motivate individuals and groups to achieve their targets which are aimed at improving the system and safety metrics, accountabilities and timescales for completion need to be monitored closely.
If a target is set without completion dates, the task will move to the pending tray and ultimately be forgotten. Similarly, if a target is set and no individual (or group) is made accountable and given resources to see it through, then everyone knows that somebody (not them) is meant to be doing something but, in practice, no-one does anything.
So to achieve continual improvement in any management system, there must be SMAARTT targets (specific, measurable, achievable, agreed, realistic, time-bound and trackable).
Checking may well involve a combination of proactive (before the event) and reactive (after the event) measures. These include exposure monitoring, health surveillance, absence monitoring, accident and near-miss statistics, testing emergency arrangements, training record checks, as well as health and safety audits and inspections.
Regular checks of any management system are vital to ensure continual improvement, as long as the findings from such checks are promptly acted upon, as necessary.
The “act” stage involves acting on the results of your checks, taking measures to rectify concerns or gaps flagged up by monitoring to minimise risk and improve the system.
Setting individual and collective SMAARTT targets in an action plan is essential
Review the risks – the effectiveness of the precautions in place should be checked regularly to ensure that they are sufficient.
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goals are likely to be met. They are benchmarks in the process of a project that indicate
All settings must carry out risk assessments on a daily basis. These are supplemented with daily checks. In all cases these must be signed and dated, so that members of staff are made responsible and accountable for the safety of children, other staff and visitors to the setting.
Method for measuring progress toward goals and objectives and how progress will be reported to
Safety checks should be carried out to eliminate the risk of putting the safety of people attending a sporting event at risk.
Summarise the literature on Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems OHSAS 18001 and AZ/NZS 4801.
Facilities – we check the facilities every day for any hazards or dangers such as wet floors/hall way and any hazards that could cause accidents such as tripping over objects or slipping on wet floors. We must make sure all exits are clear and accessible in case of a fire alarm or emergencies. We check the indoor/outdoor environment
Evaluation and review. Monitor progress regularly to know if course or actions is effective or if needs to be improved.
Create an audit follow up plan to ensure the safety plan is working and potential dangerous situations are being avoided (Gomez-Melia et al., 2011).
We monitor and evaluate for reasons of accountability, to improve performance and to provide valuable learning lessons. The agreed objectives of the team, can be monitored by the use of agreed monitoring indicators. In my work setting, monitoring forms have been designed to collect information on daily activities and tasks that have been performed by service users with staff support. Some of the monitoring forms also indicate the time and type of task that has been performed by staff on daily shifts, weekly, or monthly allocated tasks. Monitoring and evaluation is also where observations and writing of handover notes, where an overview of what has transpired during a shift is written and handed over to the next team on duty. Yearly questionnaires
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It is important it have a written work Health and Safety Policy for the organizations and businesses which have management systems. The Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 addresses Major Hazard Facilities in Regulation 558 and Schedule 17(1.2) and requires that the Safety Management System includes a Safety Policy, including the operator’s broad aims in relation to the safe operation of the major hazard facility, and that the safety policy must include and express commitment to ongoing improvement of all aspects of the safety management system. A Work Health and Safety Policy is an explicit statement of business commitment to work health and safety. It will include a statement outlining the importance which is placed on work health and safety and how it is to be implemented.
Act: This involves managers taking actions to lower costs, change resource allocations, and improve quality. As these new actions get implemented, the management team will eventually return to the planning step to assess whether its previous plan is still valid and worth continuing, or whether it has become time to adapt the plan or perhaps introduce a new strategic plan. This launches another trip around its PDCA cycle.
To make it understand in a second way, today in this corporate era, investments are made into entities via various global investors. The owners are different than the management team. Management team lays down various policies for e.g. Investment Policy/ HR Policy and so on and based on the set of policies laid down the organisations works. Now, as an investor when we look into the organisation as an investment opportunity, we would always like to know about the management policies in each area. To support their decision with regard to human resources, the biggest tool will be Occupational Health and Safety (OHS)