Introduction to Management Systems

What are Management Systems

According to the ISO 45001 standard, the adoption of an Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) management system pursues three main objectives:

To enable an organisation to provide safe and healthy workplaces.
To prevent work-related injuries and ill health and to continually improve OHS performance.
To provide a framework for managing risks and opportunities.

From the Management Systems module of Smart OSH, you can create the operational framework necessary to carry out these actions.

System Objectives

The intended outcomes of an OHS management system include:

Continuous improvement of performance.
Compliance with legal requirements.
Achievement of defined objectives.

All while maintaining processes for consultation and participation of workers at all applicable levels and functions.

Subsystems available in Smart OSH

To cover these aspects, the module is structured into three interconnected subsystems:

Nonconformity and Opportunity Management

Allows recording of noncompliances and improvement opportunities detected from multiple sources (questionnaires, visits, participations, meetings, audits, accident investigations), enabling employee participation.

Objective Management

Allows defining objectives that meet the requirements demanded by the standard:

Consistent with the OHS policy.
Measurable or assessable in terms of performance.
Subject to monitoring.
Communicable.
Updatable as appropriate.

Measure Management

Allows managing corrective and improvement measures by applying the PDCA cycle (Plan · Do · Check · Act), with three possible circuits depending on the level of control required (basic, with approval, or complete with effectiveness verification).

Source: M-SO-19-04-02 «Management Systems User Manual», version v.2, 08/04/2020.