Occupational health and safety management systems arise from the need to ensure the safety of employees and property security of businesses and to protect them from material and moral damages caused by occupational accidents and occupational diseases. In general, these systems are the set of rules established to ensure the correct and effective implementation of occupational health and safety risk management. These systems require a systematic approach, which requires a lot of technical evaluations and includes many processes.
Official institutions also have responsibilities in connection with occupational health and safety and legal regulations are issued in this regard. Regarding the importance of the issue, all of these regulations are based on risk management.
The ISO 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System standard, which is built on the OHSAS 45001 standard, is designed to support businesses in order to maintain their economic continuity and efficiency while at the same time ensuring their goals for occupational health and safety. In other words, these standards are designed to show the steps to be taken to prevent occupational accidents and to prevent occupational diseases.
2017 The ISO 18001 standard, which is now expected to be published in December and will replace the OHSAS 45001 standard, is an international standard that will help businesses fulfill their responsibilities.
Today, the OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System certificate is a document that proves that the principles of occupational health and safety are complied with for businesses in various sectors and the ISO 45001 certificate will have the same characteristics in the near future. Businesses that establish the ISO 45001 standard and meet the requirements of the system will be able to obtain ISO 45001 certification through the audits of a certification body. Once these standards are published, the OHSAS 18001 standard will be lifted and the existing documents will become obsolete depending on a specific schedule.
The ISO 45001 standard is designed to be more robust than the OHSAS 18001 standard for the establishment of proactive control systems in enterprises, to ensure the lowest risk and improved safety performance, and to enable management staff to address these issues further.