Posted By Jennifer Kelly Would also be very interested to hear from anyone about this matter. Regards Jennifer

Posted By gham We have one, but between two divisions rather than throughout the entire organisation and that's only because they do work for the same Client and that the work they do is very similar. but the safety management systems are different because of the different structures and the instances that the work is done, e.g. one does work either as a PC or on a Construction site and the other on a fully operational trading site, giving rise to very different working environments and priorities as far as safety goes What I'm getting at is that where the objectives are the same then the policy 'statement' may be similar but as the previous post mentioned the actual policies may be very different depending on the work that they actually do and the structure of the individual group, e.g. arrangements, organisation, etc. So where the policies are the same the management system may be very different. I don't even know if that makes sense :-b