What is OHSAS18001?    

The Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSAS18001) is a kind of management system standard. By using the method of management, this standard can reduce and prevent the losses of life, property and time, which are led by accidents, and environmental destruction.

To get the certification of OHSAS18001 is an essential performance for the enterprises that have promised a working condition safety maintenance and working injury prevention to the public and employees.

OHSAS18001 was released in 1999 and OHSAS 18002's guiding document provided Guidelines for its contents. OHSAS18001 has developed and is compatible with the management systems of ISO 9001:2000 (quality) and ISO 14001:1996(environmental) in the contents. By implementing the OHSAS18001 system, enterprises can consolidate the Quality, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems together to improve the management efficiency more effectively, so that benefits can be gained.

  • Purposes:

To carry out, implement and pass the certification of Occupational Health and Safety Management System can insure that the enterprises can provide the whole employees with a certain working environment that its occupational safety, health and sanitation requirements are under control, and the benefits of employees, enterprises and relative parties can be satisfied as well.

 Why released OHSAS18000 certification?    
  1. Every country in the world hope that competition would under the same cost. The developed countries, in particular, take special notice of the low-priced child labors, execrable working condition and low-cost products that are produced in factories with compartments. They believe that these elements will bring inequality to the competition.
  2. It meets the requirements of reducing working injury accidents and occupational diseases.
  3. The major problem that the occupational health and safety solute is human right.
 Benefits of getting the certification:    
  1. Upgrade the corporation image (CI); enhance the corporation cohesion;
  2. Reduce the risk of occupational health and safety problems during the operation to achieve the purpose of eternal operation;
  3. Carry out internal management improvement, avoid suffering direct / indirect losses caused by occupational health and safety problems;
  4. Perfect the enterprises' international / social accountability;
  5. Acclimate the new trend of international trade and breach the trade barriers.
 The effects of Occupational Health and Safety Management System:    
  1. By implementing OHSAS, enterprises can improve the management skills level and gain benefits in safe production obviously;
  2. Improve the working condition, workers' health both in body and mind and the working efficiency;
  3. The occupational accidents and diseases will increase the property losing and medical claims, which will rise the cost;
  4. Enhance the enterprises' social force, extend the market.



   
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