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Forestry Certification Program
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OHSAS 18001Demonstrate your ability to achieve sustainable development More and more organisations are increasingly concerned about achieving and demonstrating sound Occupational Health & Safety performance to their customers, employees and shareholders, by managing the risks and improving the beneficial effects of their activities, products and services. At the same time, more stringent legislation is increasingly pointing to stronger Occupational Health & Safety expectations. A clear commitment and a direct proactive stance to Occupational Health & Safety is required from organisations, to demonstrate their commitment and their ability to achieve sustainable development. Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Specification (OHSAS) is an international standard defining requirements related to health and safety management systems in order to enable an organisation to control its risks and improve performance. OHSAS 18001 is applicable to any organisation from all types of business sectors and activities. Certification against OHSAS 18001 is aimed at the way a company has control over, and knowledge of, all relevant risks resulting from normal operations and abnormal situations. It focuses on the management of Occupational Health and Safety and the continual improvements that the organisation develops to provide stakeholders and others with assurances of conformance with its stated Occupational Health &Safety policy. Demonstrating your commitment to Occupational Health and Safety issues will positively impact your company’s success on the short term as well as on the long term: - it improves your corporate image as well as your customer, public /public authorities and local community relations - It improves your safety culture, increasing control of hazards and the reduction of risks, setting clear objectives, targets and devolved responsibility within your organisation - it improves efficiency and consequently reduces accidents and production time loss - it reduces the financial burden due to reactive management strategies such as compensating production time loss, organising cleanups or paying penalties for breach of legislation - it improves the security/quality of workplaces, employee morale and adherence to company values - it reduces insurance premiums - it ensures compliance with legislation SGS’s unrivalled team of expert registered lead auditors have the safety, environmental, technical and regulatory knowledge to deliver the most meaningful and professional audits, and furthermore to assist you in meeting your objectives where possible. Looking for more information on the steps to follow to achieve OHSAS certification? The “Steps to Certification” document in the Technical documents window will guide you through the most important steps of the certification process. |
