Understanding OHSAS 18001 training
OHSAS 18001 is an international standard enabling businesses to measure and demonstrate their commitment to occupational health and safety. This course enables you to understand the benefits and limitations of the OHSAS management system, and practical guidance on how to achieve accreditation.
When you are OHSAS 18001 certified your clients can be confident that you manage occupational health and safety, as well as confirming that you exercise due diligence and so reduce the risk of a firm’s directors facing Corporate Manslaughter prosecution.
Course programme
- The general requirements of Health and Safety Management Systems, with specific reference to BS OHSAS 18001:2007.
- The requirements of risk assessments and evaluation of legislative compliance.
- Establishing corporate objectives and monitoring improvements (reactive and proactive).
- Learning from mistakes.
- Auditing the OH&S management system.
- Implementation issues.
Why train with Workplace Law?
- All our trainers have hands-on, practical experience of managing people, projects and premises, and the real-life problems involved.
- We have over 50,000 managers who rely on us for legal advice and training every year.
- We offer competitive rates on a wide range of legal and practical issues to do with managing people and the workplace. We provide national coverage, with first rate service backed by your own personal account manager.
- Course materials can be developed to include specific requirements with practical guidance to meet the individual needs of your business.
- This in-house course can be customised to include specific procedures and policies.
Benefits
- This course will help you to implement, maintain and continually improve an Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) management system, which will help to eliminate or minimise risk to employees and other interested parties who may be exposed to risks associated with its activities.
- Having a management system in place will improve the health and safety culture of your workplace and thereby reduce accidents, ill health and associated costs.
- Being able to demonstrate your commitment to health and safety by achieving the global OHSAS 18001 standard will help your company to win more business and reduce the burden of responding to health and safety tender questionnaires.
