Indian Health and Safety Legislation: Safety Officer Requirement.

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Industrial Health and Safety blogs. What are the Indian Health and Safety Legislation Requirement for  "Safety Officer"  in different states? Ans: Section 40-B. Safety Officers According to The Factories Act 1948 In every factory :- wherein  one thousand(1000) or more workers are ordinarily employed , or wherein, in the  opinion of the State Government , any manufacturing process or operation is carried on, which  process or operation involves any risk of bodily injury ,  poisoning or disease or any other hazard to health, to the person employed in the factory , the occupier shall, if so required by the State Government by notification in Official Gazette, employ such number of Safety Officers as may be specified in that notification. UTTAR PRADESH FACTORY RULES 1950 and Uttar Pradesh Factories (Safety Officers) Rules, 1984 THE TAMILNADU FACTORIES RULES, 1950, The Tamil Nadu Safety Officers (Duties, Qualifications and Condi
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What is OHSAS 18001? Is that first health and safety management certification system? Is it related with ISO 45001?

OHSAS 18001 stands for Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series. It is globally accepted British standard for health and safety management system. Officially it is known BS OHSAS 18001, here BS stands for British standard. Yes it was first certified health safety management system.





Organizations demanded for a unified approach and H&S certification system approach to improve health and safety. This lead to formation of an international collaboration called the Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series (OHSAS) Project Group and it was formed to create a single unified approach. The Group comprised representatives from national representative bodies, academic bodies, accreditation bodies, certification bodies and occupational safety and health institutions. BS OHSAS 18001:2007 is a health and safety management system standard.  Originally produced in 1999, it was substantially revised in 2007 with substantial input from HSE and aligns quite closely with HSG 65 and BS 8800.  It also shows close alignment with BS EN ISO 14001:2004, quite close alignment with ILO OSH 2001 and some alignment with ANSI Z10, a recent American National standard for health and safety management.

The Series consisted of two specifications: 18001 provided requirements for an OHS management system and 18002 gave implementation guidelines. As of 2005, around 16,000 organizations in more than 80 countries were using the OHSAS 18001 specification. By 2009 more than 54,000 certificates had been issued in 116 countries to OHSAS or equivalent OHSMS standards.

Although published in the UK by BSI and subject to the usual consultation process in its development, OHSAS 18001 was also subject to separate international negotiation and agreement. It affords a reasonable model on which to base a systematic approach to managing health and safety within a whole business context but does not provide guidance on how to build or apply it and incorporates relatively few aspects of health and safety culture. Some guidance on all these aspects is, however, contained in the accompanying publication BSI-OHSAS 18002:2000, which is also being updated and expanded to take account of the new edition of 18001.

ISO 45001

In October 2013, the International Organization for Standardization approved the project proposal to develop the ISO 45001 standard, an ISO analogue to the OHSAS 18000 standards. This is stated to be taking OHSAS 18001 into account along with other international standards



Who is it for?
ISO 45001 is intended for use by any organization, regardless of its size or the nature of its work, and can be integrated into other health and safety programmes such as worker wellness and wellbeing. It can assist an organization to fulfil its legal requirements.

When will it be available?
The drafts will be available through your local ISO member once it reaches the public enquiry (DIS) stage and Final Draft (FDIS) stage. See the table above for more information. Learn more about the stages of standards development.

Where can I find out more?
Watch this space for further updates about the standard's progress or contact your national ISO member.

Reference
http://www.hse.gov.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org

https://www.iso.org
I am a Health and Safety professional writing blogs related to Industrial Health and Safety. I am qualified from Regional labor institute India and International Diploma from NEBOSH.

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