Occupational Health and Safety Management System OHRIS

6 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OHRIS 

Implementing a snitable OHS management system for employers in the Slovak Republic (SR) has an important justification in reality. It is possible to achieve a permanent increase of the OHS level by creating an appropriate mechanism that provides for proper activity of a business in the field of OHS. This indeed has significant 

Occupational health and safety finds itself in abreakthrongh condition. Tasks of a traditional safety technician in the past were connected to activities in only one field. However, these tendencies are gradually changing. Peak functions in the field of complex workplace safety expect in the future to cope with tasks in the field of OHS, safety of mechanical devices (SMD), environmental protection, management of hazardous substances and critical industrial accidents, quality managanent, as well as in the field of explosion and fire protection. Classic activities aimed at retrospective accident analysis methods are replaced by prospective methods aimed at application of modern risk analysis methods at the initial stages of a machine s technical life and projection of job positions. 

Capability means having specific knowledge. Capable experts in OHS must be equal partners with their colleagues from the fields of planning, developing, purchasing, operation and maintenance of machines and devices, and manipulation of hazardous substances. 

Pacaiova, H., Sinay, J., and Glatz, J. Bezpecnost a rizikd technick ch systimov SjF TUKE Kosice Edition, Vienala Kosice 2009, ISBN 978-80-553-0180-8. 

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