Posted By Neil Koskie OHSAS 18001 is the health and safety standard. Although it is not internationally recognised, it is a good, fully auditable management system. 9000 is the quality management standard and 14000 is the environmental standard. Hope this helps. NK

Posted By Frank Hallett Hi Paul. Are you considering demonstrations of corporate or individual competence? If corporate competence, you must remember that except for standards such as 18001 [which is specifically H&S] the standards really only determine the efficiency of the management system as a whole. There should also be clear requirements for individual competence at key management levels and posts that are built into the job specification AND demonstrated as achived by the post-holders. Frank Hallett

Posted By J Knight Paul, There are at least two Audit schemes whi provide for a 'certificate of competence' if you like, though I am sure that both organisations would be very quick to say that they are not to be seen in quite those terms. One is the British Safety Council's 5 Star Audit, which they supply as a full service, and I don't know how much it costs. The other is RoSPA's QSA Audit, which is based initially on HSG65 and incorporates OHSAS18000. the beauty of the RoSPA scheme is that you can train to carry it out, though this is expensive (over 2K I think), and it does allow for award ranging from Level 5 to Level 1, John