Health and Safety, NEBOSH, OSHA, IOSH, HSE.

As we know usually there are two types of monitoring .i.e. Active and reactive. Audit or checking of the health and safety standard is active monitoring system and it is better than reactive because it is working before things go wrong. CHASE stands for Complete Health and Safety evaluation is used as an audit and evaluation system within the organisation as a part of active monitoring (It is a type of Data base management system). It was originally designed for health and safety audit evaluation tool , is now widely accepted in other area of loss like quality, environment etc. CHASE initially developed as a MS-DOS audit manual in 1980. However it is now available in Window format with hand held device for collecting the data. CHASE fits into health and Safety Management standard as below : BS 8800- CHASE fits into measuring performance and auditing aspect. OHSAS 18001- CHASE fits into Checking and corrective action. Key Features of CHASE are as ...

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...

Health and safety management system is beneficial for every type of organization either they are small or big, either dealing with chemicals or transportation. Successful organizations treat Health and Safety as an integral part of business like any other part .i.e. Finance, Maintenance, Production etc. Successful o rganizations do maximum possible efforts to manage health and safety at workplace. Benefits of formal health and safety management system at workplace can be following:     1- H&S Management provides clear structure which clearly indicates who is accountable, who is    responsible for the safe doing of tasks.    2- Use of Expertise team (Multi functional team) which provides structured approach to do risk assessment. 3    3- Planned approach to do the job with respect to health and safety. 4    4- Evidence based approach with respect to health and safety. 5    5- For...