OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

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2 CONTENT WHY THE CHANGE FROM OHSAS TO? WHAT ARE THE MAIN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AND BS OHSAS 18001:2007? The new standard for OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY COMPARN GUIDE Organizations are responsible for the health and safety of their employees, which is why it is necessary to create a safe and healthy work environment. The purpose of is to help you create an Occupational Health & Safety Management System, based on minimizing occupational risks and improving the health and safety of workers and overall working conditions. For these reasons, your organization must provide your workers with a safe and healthy work environment, proactively anticipating the possible occurrence of incidents and avoiding any harm or injuries. The purpose of is to help you create an Occupational Health and Safety Management System, based on minimizing occupational risks and improving safety and working conditions in general. Thanks to the Occupational Health and Safety Management System, you will be able to identify, analyse and assess risks that affect your staff in order to take the appropriate measures to improve the work environment. 2 GUIDE

3 Why the change from BS to is the international standard published by that replaces the BS standard. This change is mainly due to the heterogeneous nature that BS displayed in different countries, in addition to the difficulties of integration with other standards such as 9001:2015 and 14001:2015, now solved with the integration of Annex SL. Evolution of corporate needs Evolution of business model? Evolution of corporate concept Evolution of safety concept New approach to the definition of risk. Review of the concept of workplace and worker. More accessible language for the services sector, for which we talk about risk identification and risk control instead of hazards. Safety Management is extended to all the operations of the organization increasing management Leadership and worker participation. It introduces new concepts such as occupational well-being, risk and opportunities. The context of the organization and the expectations of stakeholders are of particular importance. Documented planning to acheive OH&S Objectives is a distinct feature. Determination of scope of OH&SMS, Which requires several additional considerations Integration with other management systems Uniformity of regulations BS WHAT WERE THE OBJECTIVES OF THE REVIEW? The main objective of the review was to release a new standard, understood and accepted by all, to allow an organization to improve its results and performance in health and safety and offer safe and healthy workspaces to its workers and interested parties. also offers: GUIDE 3

4 FOREWORD INTRODUCTION FOREWORD INTRODUCTION CHANGES Background Aim of an OH&S management system Success factors Plan-Do-Check- Act Cycle 0.5 Contents of this document 1 SCOPE 1 SCOPE More elaborate. 2 NORMATIVE 2 NORMATIVE No NORMATIVE REFERENCES. References to & ILO Guidelines deleted. REFERENCES REFERENCES 3 TERMS & 3 TERMS & 37 definitions against 23. New definitions for term WORKER introduced.it is made clear that the work performed is under control of the DEFINITIONS DEFINITIONS organization. The organization's responsibilities in WORKPLACE depends on the degree of control over the workplace. The term RISK includes business risk in addition to OH&S risks. The terms RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES means OH&S risks, OH&S opportunities and other risks and opportunities to the Management System. PARTICIPATION AND CONSULTATION are separately defined. Term INTERESTED PARTY more elaborated. 4 CONTEXT OF THE ORGANIZATION 4.1 Understanding WORKERS are to be considered as one of the interested parties in relation to OHS&MS while determining the needs and expectations. the organization and its context 4 GUIDE

5 CHANGES Understanding the needs and expectations of workers and other interested parties In addition to WORKERS (which means all employees working for or on behalf of the company), all relevant interested parties and their needs and expectations to be determined. 4.3 Determining the scope of the OH&S management system 4.1 General Requirements Determining SCOPE has much wider impact now. Needs and expectations and issues need to be considered while determining the scope of OHS&MS. 4.4 OH&S Concept of PROCESSES strongly emphasized now. Management System 5 LEADERSHIP AND WORKER PARTICIPATION Communication, participation and consultation (title only) Separate clause on LEADERSHIP & WORKER PARTICIPATION introduced in line with Annex SL 5.1 Leadership and commitment Resources, roles, responsibility, accountability and authority Role of TOP MANAGEMENT enhanced substantially. Reference to 'management appointee' deleted. 5.2 OH&S Policy 4.2 OH&S Policy Relevance to CONTEXT OF THE ORGANIZATION is the new key element within the OH&S Policy. 5.3 Organizational roles, responsibilities and authorities Resources, roles, responsibility, accountability and authority Assigning the RESPONSIBILITIES AND AUTHORITIES is the new element added. While responsibilities and authorities can be assigned, top management remains ultimately accountable for the OH&SMS. 5.4 Consultation & Participation and CONSULTATION and PARTICIPATION is made part of Leadership. A number of new elements added with regards to participation and participation of consultation consultation with workers such as providing access to information, removing obstacles in participation of workers. workers GUIDE 5

6 CHANGES - 6 PLANNING 4.3 Planning 6.1 Actions to address risks and opportunities (title only) General Hazard identification, risk assessment and determining controls RISK DETERMINATION is the key element of the new standard in line with Annex SL framework Hazard identification and assessment of risks & opportunities (title only) Hazard identification Hazard identification, risk assessment and determining controls Assessment of OH&S risks and other risks to the OH&SMS Assessment of OH&S opportunities and other opportunities for the OH&SMS Not addressed Determination of legal requirements and other requirements Legal and other requirements Planning action Hazard Identification, risk assessment and determining controls Emergencies, people, possible changes and previous incidents, as well as the work organization and social factors need to be considered. Requirements for the inputs and basis for HAZARD IDENTIFICATION has been well organized now. New elements such as Hazards related to (1) Product & Service Design including R & D (2) workers at locations not under the direct control (3) Changes in the knowledge (4) New factors including workload, work hours, victimization, harassment and bullying, company culture added. NEW REQUIREMENTS added. Improvements in the company culture, new technologies, training and knowledge, more employee participation, etc. New set of requirements, strong emphasis on a robust PLANNING PROCESS for OHS&MS. 6 GUIDE

7 CHANGES OH&S objectives and planning to achieve them (title only) OH&S objectives Planning to achieve Objectives and OH&S objectives programme(s) 7 SUPPORT Not addressed as a separate clause 7.1 Resources Resources, roles, responsibility, accountability and authority Separate clause provided for planning. PLANNING clause is more structured. Concept of PROGRAMME is integrated with OH&S objectives. New requirements to maintain and retain documented information on objectives and plans to achieve them. 7.2 Competence Competence, training Focus has been shifted on achieving and maintaining competence in place of emphasis on TRAINING. Workers must be competent to identify and awareness hazards. 7.3 Awareness Competence, training Make the workers, contractors, visitors and third parties involved aware of the risks to which subjected to. Workers, contractors, visitors and and awareness third parties must be aware and know how to IDENTIFY those serious or imminent risks that represent a danger to life or health. 7.4 Communication Communication, Specific Clause on Communication participation and consultation General Communication Internal Communication Communication External Communication Communication Greater emphasis on establishing a communication process rather than procedure(s) Specific focus on Internal communication among various levels within the organization Specific focus on external communication 7.5 Documented Documentation Terms DOCUMENTED INFORMATION now cover documents and records. information (title only) General Documentation GUIDE 7

8 CHANGES Creating and updating Control of Documents Control of documented Control of records Information 8 OPERATION While the documents and records have been grouped under concept of documented information, the process of creating and updating and controlling them has been detailed to a great extent. 8.1 Operational planning and control General Operational control More elaborate PLANNING is required now. Linked to planning clause. The term HIERARCHY OF CONTROLS is still used, but the phrase used in other parts of the document is eliminate hazards and reduce OH&S risks Eliminating hazards and reducing OH&S Risks Management of Change Procurement Hazard identification, Emphasis on eliminating the Hazards than just DETERMINING AND IMPLEMENTING CONTROLS. HIERARCHY OF CONTROLS re defined risk assessment and determining controls Operational Control Specific clause on MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE added, thereby according high importance to this process Operational Control Specific clause on PROCUREMENT added, thereby according high importance to this process General Contractors Outsourcing Operational Control Ambit of Procurement elaborated to include outsourcing and contractual activities which are high vulnerability areas 8.2 Emergency Emergency A few finer elements added in Emergency preparedness and response clause. Example: 'needs and capabilities of all relevant interested preparedness and preparedness and parties and their involvement in the development of planned response to Emergencies'. 'Term First Aid has been explicitly added'. response response 9 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION 4.5 Checking (title only) 9.1 Monitoring, Performance measurement, analysis and performance measurement and monitoring evaluation 8 GUIDE

9 CHANGES General Requirements have been made more specific, such as monitoring & measurement of: LEGAL REQUIREMENTS, OPERATIONS RELATED TO HAZARDS, RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES Evaluation of Compliance Evaluation of FREQUENCY & METHODS have been made part of requirements. compliance 9.2 Internal audit (title only) Internal audit General Internal audit Internal Audit Internal audit INTERNAL AUDIT requirements made more specific. programme 9.3 Management 4.6 Management More detailed MANAGEMENT REVIEW expected. review review 10 IMPROVEMENT 10.1 General 10.2 Incident, non-conformity and corrective action 4.2 OH&S policy OH&S risk must now be assessed prior to taking any actions related to the results of incident investigation from non-conformities (10.2) Management review Nonconformity, corrective action and preventive action 10.3 Continual Objectives and Continual improvement appears as a separate clause. Incorporates new requirements. More emphasis on the term PERFORMANCE. improvement programme(s) GUIDE 9

10 How do we undertake the migration to is a unique opportunity for ensuring that your organization is perfectly aligned with an OH&S management system. In this way you will be able to improve your organization s occupational health and safety performance. If you are certified to BS, we recommend you start thinking about how to undertake the migration. It will be a three-year period from the date of publication of the standard, in this case from March The transition to is a very important step for your organization, as apart from updating your management system, it will show your customers and the market your true commitment to your workers. Find out. Find out about and its main changes, and discover its benefits and how to apply them to your business. At LEAD from Bureau Veritas we offer you many free online resources to give you a complete overview of this new standard: Train yourself. LEAD from Bureau Veritas aims to become your training expert in. That is why we have created a training method that adapts to your needs, as you will be able to train at any time through our 24/7 platform. It has two versions: e-learning course (in-depth knowledge of the standard) and virtual class (introduction to the standard webinar). Self-assess. Before carrying out an audit, it is worth assessing your current Occupational Health & Safety Management System against the approach. Thanks to the self-assessment tool you will be able to identify areas for improvement, prioritize actions, and obtain a detailed overview of the maturity of your Management System. Your audit in some clicks. We offer you a new way of purchasing your prevalidation audits (pre-audit, gap analysis, etc.) Thanks to LEAD you can now do this MARCH YEARS MARCH 2021 Standard publication date Your window to make the transition Deadline for transition LEAD is a transition tool developed by Bureau Veritas, focused on digital markets and which supports your organization in its transformation process; LEAD combines all the Training, Tools and Certification digital services necessary to adapt your management system to the new versions. We have designed a series of transition packs that will help you to undertake the transition simply and profitably. With our transition packs you will be able to undertake this process at your own pace. BRONZE PACK Practical toolbox FAQ Transition road-map Communications kit E-learning courses and virtual classes designed by certification experts SILV E R PAC K All the benefits of a Bronze Package Online self-assessment tool a handy web solution based on the new requirements so you can assess your current situation by yourself. G O L D PAC K All the benefits of a Silver Package Personalized audits by our international experts to assess your level of conformity to the new standard requirements. 10 GUIDE

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