OHS 718 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Iso 9000, Ohsas 18001, Pdca

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Occupational Health
• Course: OHS 718
• Professor: Dave Meston

Document Summary

No doubt there will be excepions, but standards organizaions around the world (e. g. canadian standards. Associaion or csa, american naional standards insitute or ansi) are presently facing mouning pressure from muli-naional companies to create an internaional ohs management system standard along the lines of the. Internaional standards organizaion iso 9000 series for quality and 14000 series for environment. Internaional standards usually adopt best pracices and lead to equalizaion rather than lowering of standards. For example, two management systems guidelines that were created recently include: briish standards insitute"s occupaional health and safety assessment series: bsi ohsas 18001:1999. Occupaional health and safety management systems speciicaion, and: internaional labour organizaion"s guidelines on occupaional safety and health management systems (ilo-osh 2001). These guidelines could easily become standards and will be discussed in more detail in unit 4. Ansi and others have just introduced their own management system standards. This trend will also be discussed in unit 4.