Policies and Procedures for Occupational Safety Management

Organizational vision and mission are further defined by policies and procedures. The occupational safety nnit mnst develop policies and procedures to promote the organization s vision and mission while protecting organizational assets. A policy tells ns what to do, while a procedure tells us how to do it. Many organizational policies can be written aronnd laws, regulations, and standards. 

OSHA provides the laws and legal definitions of how occupational safety should be addressed in an organization. While standards published by organizations such as the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) are guides for how you could address a hazard, ANSI standards look a lot like regulations. They re detailed, technical instructions for addressing hazards. 

For this chapter, commonly used definitions are as follows  

Procedure tells people how to do something may comprise several work instructions 

Protocol another name for procedure associated with specific disciplines. 

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