ISO 45001 Occupational safety system
The ISO 45001 standard helps the organization meet legal requirements and enables continuous improvement, ensuring the ability to respond to current and future challenges.
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Core of the occupational safety system: Risk identification and assessment
ISO 45001 occupational health and safety management system
The occupational safety system focuses essentially on identifying occupational safety and health hazards and assessing the associated risks. This process aims to identify hazards, assess the related risks, and above all remove identified hazards or reduce risks. The Quality Bank program offers effective tools for risk assessment and deviation reporting. Quality Bank enables easy start-up and offers a versatile range of modules.
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What are the benefits of a workplace safety system?
Benefits of a workplace safety system
The effectiveness of the occupational health and safety system is reflected in reduced accidents and sick leave, reducing human costs, for example. In addition, it promotes active management participation and employee ownership of their own work, creating a strong safety culture. The ISO 45001 standard helps the organization meet statutory requirements and provides opportunities for continuous improvement, ensuring the ability to respond to current and future challenges.
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Improvement of workplace safety
Workplace accidents can result in serious injuries or even death, the economic value of which is difficult to measure. An effective occupational safety and health system is reflected in a reduced number of accidents and sick leave, reducing human suffering and costs.
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Management commitment and employee involvement
The occupational safety system encourages management to actively participate in strategic planning and practical measures to eliminate risks. This fosters employees' sense of ownership of their own work and creates a strong safety culture.
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Ability to meet requirements
The ISO 45001 standard helps the organization identify legal requirements and ensure their fulfillment. The auditing process detects deviations and provides an opportunity for continuous improvement, ensuring the organization's ability to meet current and future challenges.
The importance of the occupational safety system
What is the significance of an occupational health and safety management system according to the ISO 45001 standard?
Its aim is to integrate into the company's decision-making process by reducing negative impacts on occupational safety and health. The occupational safety management system focuses on direct management, providing tools to support decision-making. Depending on the company's current situation, these can either be new tools or existing measures.
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Where to start building the ISO 45001 standard?
Once your company has decided to start developing a workplace safety system, it's time to take action!
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First step
The first step is to determine the extent to which the standard is applied in the company. The decision on whether to apply occupational safety management procedures throughout the company or limit them to certain functions must be made carefully and justifiably, especially with possible future certification in mind.
Second step
Another strategic direction relates to whether the system should be certified or not. Initially, it may be beneficial to enter a learning phase, utilizing the standard's tools and striving to operate in accordance with the ISO 45001 standard before certification. Certification generally brings more systematicity and continuity to operations in the long run.
Third step
Once the strategy is chosen, it is important to set objectives for work safety and plan its implementation. Employee involvement in drafting the plan usually increases commitment. The objectives should focus on the most significant occupational health and safety risks, taking into account different types of risks, such as accidents, long-term exposures, or psychological risks.
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Leverage the benefits of the ISO 45001 occupational health and safety system
Management systems have often been criticized as bureaucratic and paper-based exercises. This applies to many companies that view the system solely for certification purposes in marketing. However, if one intends to build a safety management system, it is important to harness its advantages by focusing on continuous safety improvements rather than merely meeting standard requirements.
In this approach, it can be beneficial to use pre-designed tools and templates, such as the deviation reporting and risk assessment offered by Laatupanki, so that the company can focus on building efficient processes instead of spending time developing tools.
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