Management Leadership of the Health and Safety Management System

 Establishing a health and safety policy at the workplace

 Providing appropriate resources for the health and safety management system
 Establishing and delegating roles, responsibilities, accountability, and authority for the
health and safety management system
 Integrating the health and safety management system into the organization’s other
systems and processes

Employee Participation in the Health and Safety Management System

 Provide employees with the time, resources, and means necessary

 Give employees timely access to relevant information
 Identify and remove barriers to employee participation in the health and safety
management system

Planning a Health and Safety Management System

 Identify OHSMS issues (hazards, risks, management system deficiencies, and

opportunities for improvement)
 Prioritize those issues identified
 Establish objectives that offer the greatest chances for safety and health management
system improvements and risk reduction

 Gather and review relevant information to identify safety and health management
system issues
 Prioritize the safety and health management system issues identified during the review
mentioned above
 Develop objectives for the safety and health management system and for risk control
based on the prioritized safety and health management system issues
 Create implementation plan to accomplish the prioritized objectives  above

Implementing and Operating a Health and Safety Management System

 Implement a reporting system

 Train workers how to identify and control hazards
 Conduct inspections
 Collect hazard control ideas
 Implement hazard control ideas
 Address/anticipate workplace emergencies
 Seek input on workplace changes

 Operational elements, including:

o Risk assessments
o Hierarchy of control
 o Design review and management of change processes
o Process verification
o Procurement
o Contractors
o Emergency preparedness
 Training
 Communication
 Documentation

Monitoring, Evaluating, and Correcting a Health and Safety Management System

1. Monitoring, measuring, and assessing your health and safety management system

2. Performing incident investigations
3. Auditing your health and safety management system
4. Performing corrective actions (of your health and safety management system) when
necessary
5. Updating the planning process and management review of your health and safety
management system

Management Review of the Health and Safety Management System

 Overall trends and progress toward risk reduction

 Effectiveness of efforts and processes to identify, assess, and prioritize risk
 Effectiveness of efforts and processes to identify, assess, and prioritize system
deficiencies
 Effectiveness of processes intended to address underlying causes of risks and system
deficiencies
 Input from employees and employee representatives
 Status updates on corrective actions, preventive actions, and changing circumstances
 Follow-up actions and status updates from safety and health management system
audits and previous management review of the safety and health management system
 Status updates on the extent to which the safety and health management system has
met the objectives of the safety and health management system
 Performance of the safety and health management system relative to expectations,
taking into account changing circumstances, resources needs, alignment of the business
plan, and general consistency of the organizations’ occupational health and safety policy

Decisions made during the management review of the health and safety management system
should:

 Future direction of the safety and health management system based on the
organization’s safety policy, business strategies, and overall operating conditions
 Need for changes to the organizations’ policy, priorities, objectives, resources, or other
parts of the safety and health management system