BUSINESS STANDARDS
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Health & safety first
28 Jan 2008
Topics: Health & safety, OHSAS 18001
BSI has launched a new Health & Safety Quick Check, for organizations concerned with achieving and demonstrating sound occupational health and safety (OH&S) performance by controlling their OH&S risks.
BSI Health and Safety Quick Check is a web-based tool that contains a series of questions, broken down into 16 discrete sections, covering everything from hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control to emergency preparedness and response. Questions are designed to assess OH&S management systems against best practice standards such as BS OHSAS 18001. It helps to identify where an OH&S management system is working well and where the system needs attention. It uses an easy to understand and user-friendly web-based software - all that is needed is a browser and access to the internet.
The Quick Check tool offers a comprehensive review of OH&S management systems, as well as direct electronic access to the relevant standards and guidance, so that users have the latest information at their fingertips either on their desktop or hand-held device. It also helps identify OH&S risks and gaps, so that corporate policy can be improved and amended, according to best practice.
For more information, visit:www.bsigroup.com/jan08OHSonline
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