Posted By Graham Clarke MIOSH, MIIRSM Hi Folks, Can anyone help me, do any of you have a copy of the ISO standard for health and safety. I am trying to ascertain whether I can convince the board its a viable option. Managed to do this with ISO14001, need to look at standard to see whether what we have measures up.

Posted By Bryan Owen I'm also in the middle of sorting my board out to undertake OHSAS 18001 after obtaining 14001. Feel free to e-mail me to discuss how I'm going about implementing this system, using the structure of ISO 14001 system for most of the parts. You'll be surprised how easy it really is, that you can actually get most of the work done before you present it to the board. bryanmusashi@netscapeonline.co.uk

Posted By Jay Joshi There is no International Standard for Occupational health and Safety Management Systems at this point in time. Ths BSI proposal last year to initiate the process for one was not carried through within ISO--The International Standards Organisation. Ian is right, the nearest to it are the draft ILO technical guidelines on occupational health and safety management systems--you can download them from the ILO website!!! The current British Standard for it is BS 8800: 1996 Guide to occupational health and safety management systems. This standard DOES NOT provide for CERTIFICATION. This led to a number of Certification bodies, who were already in the business for Quality and Environmental management systems auditing and certification to produce their own "standards/specifications". In order to meet the demand in the market for a certificated OHSMS "standard" and avoid the proliferation of different certification "company standards", the BSI with the support of the other certification bodies published OHSAS 18001 and OHSAS 18002 OHSAS 18001:1999 Occupational health and safety management systems. Specification OHSAS 18002:2000 Occupational health and safety management systems. Guidelines for the implementation of OHSAS 18001