Occupational Health and Safety Audit System

According to Mr. Lam, safety officer of a contractor, OHS AS 18001 is a European standard that mainly works through risk management. Companies usually implement ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 before they implement OHSAS 18001. Mr. Lam comments that OHSAS 18001 is similar to BS 8800, which stresses the importance of plan-do-check-act. The safety officer usually refers to these method statements to do the risk assessment. He will estimate the likelihood rating and consequences. The two figures obtained are then multiplied to calculate the risk problem (Tables 5.1, 5.2, 5.3). 

If the degree of risk is 15-20, the safety officer needs to review the work procedure immediately, use appropriate safety measures to reduce the risk to a low level. Supervision by a competent person is also required. If the degree of risk falls in the range of 5-14, the safety officer needs to review the work procedure within a reasonable time. He needs to formulate safety measures to reduce the risk to a low level. If the degree of risk is within the range of 1, workers need to foUow in-house safety rules and statutory requirements. Nevertheless, if the control measures are unable to reduce the risk to a low level, the method statement shall be reviewed by the engineer. There should be re-assessment of risks according to the revised method statement and procedures. 

ISO 9001 generates an integrated management system (IMS). ISO 14001 concerns environmental policy. 

Probability Probability level Likelihood rating Prob. Value Description Individual failure mode 

B 4 10-2 Probable Will occur several times in the life of an item 

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