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    1. The document discusses occupational safety, health, and environmental management systems (OSH/EMS). It outlines standards and frameworks like MS1722 and OHSAS 18000 that provide requirements and guidelines for managing risks, hazards, and legal compliance through a coordinated system. 2. An effective OSH/EMS involves developing policies, planning prevention activities, implementing controls, checking performance, and reviewing the system regularly. Benefits include a safer work environment, reduced costs from injuries, and improved business opportunities and reputation. 3. Key aspects of an OSH/EMS addressed are roles and responsibilities, training, documentation, monitoring, audits, compliance, corrective actions, and records management. Cert

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    1. The document discusses occupational safety, health, and environmental management systems (OSH/EMS). It outlines standards and frameworks like MS1722 and OHSAS 18000 that provide requirements and guidelines for managing risks, hazards, and legal compliance through a coordinated system. 2. An effective OSH/EMS involves developing policies, planning prevention activities, implementing controls, checking performance, and reviewing the system regularly. Benefits include a safer work environment, reduced costs from injuries, and improved business opportunities and reputation. 3. Key aspects of an OSH/EMS addressed are roles and responsibilities, training, documentation, monitoring, audits, compliance, corrective actions, and records management. Cert

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    1. The document discusses occupational safety, health, and environmental management systems (OSH/EMS). It outlines standards and frameworks like MS1722 and OHSAS 18000 that provide requirements and guidelines for managing risks, hazards, and legal compliance through a coordinated system. 2. An effective OSH/EMS involves developing policies, planning prevention activities, implementing controls, checking performance, and reviewing the system regularly. Benefits include a safer work environment, reduced costs from injuries, and improved business opportunities and reputation. 3. Key aspects of an OSH/EMS addressed are roles and responsibilities, training, documentation, monitoring, audits, compliance, corrective actions, and records management. Cert

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    CHAPTER 2

    OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY, HEALTH, AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT


    SYSTEM

    OSH MANAGEMENT
    - An integral part of the overall management system of an organization to manage the risks
    associates with the business of the organization

    OSH Standards MS1722


    - Intended to address OSH rather than product and services safety
    - Purpose of Standard:
    1. To provide a system to protect employees from hazards and elimination of work-related
    injuries, disabilities, ill health, diseases, near misses and fatalities
    2. To establish a framework for OSH management system
    3. To provide requirements on OSH management system with integration of OSH elements
    with policy and management
    4. To provide a means to motivate employers, management staff, employees and their
    representatives in implementing OSH management principles with continual
    improvement in OSH performance

    Process of OSH Management System


    OH & S Policy >> Planning >> Implementation & Operation >> Checking & Corrective Action >>
    Management Review

    Objectives of OSH Management System


    1. OSHMS is a coordinated and systematic approach to managing health and safety risks
    2. OSHMS helps organization to continually improved their safety performances and
    compliance to health and safety legislation and standard

    Benefit of OSH Management System


    1. Helping organization creates safer work environment
    2. Reducing injuries and injuries related costs
    3. Improving business opportunities because customer is favoured to purchased product or
    services from companies with an OSHMS
    4. Providing measurable system to verify the OSH performance in the companies
    5. Demonstrate the companies is meeting a legal requirement
    6. Enhancing the organization reputation
    Objective of OHSAS 18000
    1. Developing an occupational health and safety policy for the organization
    2. Establishing an occupational health and safety management system
    3. Identifying the hazard, assessment of risks and risk control
    4. Clarifying the legal and other requirement and evaluating compliances with them
    5. Setting the occupational health and safety objectives and targets
    6. Establishing programs for achieving the occupational health and safety objectives targets
    7. Implementing and operation of the occupational health and safety management system
    8. Evaluation of the occupational health and safety management system

    Benefits of OHSAS 18001


    1. Compliance with legal and other requirements
    2. Employee satisfaction
    3. Reducing of absenteeism
    4. Reducing of work-related accidents and illness
    5. Reducing of costs associated with accident and illness
    6. Increasing of control of regulatory issues
    7. Potentially reducing of insurance costs

    Environmental Management System


    - EMS is a system comprising of an organizational structure with its responsibilities, practices,
    procedures, processes and resources for implementing and maintaining the system relating
    to management of the environment

    Manage implementation and operations of EMS by


    1. Identifying roles, responsibilities and authorities
    2. Providing adequate resources to implement the systems
    3. Appointing management representative
    4. Providing relevant training and awareness programs
    5. Establish procedure to control internal and external communication with regards to EMS
    and environmental aspects
    6. Documenting your EMS which include:
    -environmental policy, objectives and targets
    -scope of EMS
    -describe main elements of the EMS and how they interact with each other
    -establish procedure to control your EMS documents

    Check your EMS by


    1. Establishing procedures to monitor and measure the key operational characteristics that
    could have a significant impact on the environment
    2. Ensuring that environmental monitoring and measuring equipment are calibrated and
    verified, maintained and records are retained
    3. Establishing a procedure to periodically evaluate compliance with all relevant legal
    environmental requirements
    4. Establishing procedure on managing actual and potential non-conformity and the corrective
    and preventive actions
    5. Establishing record control procedure for the EMS
    6. Establishing internal audit procedure, conduct internal audit and report result to
    management

    EMS Legal and Other Requirements


    1. Environmental Quality Act 1974 (Act 127) – to prevent, abatement, control of pollution and
    environment. For any purposes related with that
    2. Environmental Protection Act 1994 – to preserve environment
    3. Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 – to deal with OSH at workplace
    4. Factory and Machinery Act (Act 139) – handling accident/diseases
    5. Local Town Councils Regulations – local planning

    Benefits of OSH Certification


    1. Comply with legal requirements as specified in Occupational Safety and Health Act and other
    relevant regulations
    2. Fulfilling the business and social responsibility on environment management
    3. Eliminate or minimize the risks to the employees and other people who may be exposed to
    OSH risks associated with its activities
    4. Safeguarding the business and provide the customer, supplier and stakeholders with
    confidence because able to manage the OSH issues
    5. Save more money because costs of preventing the OSH accidents are lesser than costs of
    handling and corrective action after accidents occurs
    6. Provide the competitive edge in market place because the system provides the continuous
    improvement
    7. Increase probability and business security

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