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What is a Health and Safety Management System (HSMS)?

A Health and Safety Management System (HSMS) defines the framework in which an organisation cares for the occupational health and safety of its employees and third parties impacted by the organisation’s activities. It represents a set of rules, policies, processes, plans and practices for preventing occupational health and safety hazards and minimises risks in the workplace. This helps build organisational resilience and protect employees and anyone else exposed to the organisation’s activities, products and/or services from injury or ill health.

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An OHSMS is unique for every organisation, and it must be adequate to the legal requirements, occupational health and safety hazards and business processes applied within the organisation.

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Depending on how your organisation operates today, creating an OHSMS may not require a lot of change beyond documenting what and how you do it, or it may mean a number of changes that can benefit your organisation.

What are the benefits of ISO 45001 certification?

  • Improved health and safety performance

  • Reduction of incidents, injury or ill health

  • Fulfilment of compliance obligations

  • Engaged employees

  • Gives confidence to customers

  • Reduce costs associated with insurance premiums and the disruption and downtime that injury and ill health can bring.

  • Improves internal communication across all levels within your organisation, encouraging collaboration in the pursuit of safe and healthy working conditions, to the benefit and acceptance of all involved.

  • Improve your image and credibility

  • Improve cost control

  • Use evidence-based decision making

  • Create a culture of continual improvement

  • Engage your people

  • More clarity on OH&SMS issues

  • Enhanced leadership involvement and worker participation in the OH&SMS

  • Risk-based thinking for the OH&SMS, as well as for OH&S risks

  • Alignment of the OH&S policy and objectives with the strategic direction of the organisation

  • Integration of the OH&SMS into the business processes of the organisation

  • Simplified language, common structure and terms

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