What are Occupational Health and Safety risks?
Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) risks range from obvious dangers such as broken lights in a dark stairwell and leaving boxes stacked in front of fire exits through to those that are less noticeable such as company staff driving dangerously when on the road for business.
If you are shopping in your local supermarket you can also see OHS risks when products such as olive oil break onto the floor spilling liquid which you could slip on.
How do you stop these risks occurring?
Of course it is nearly impossible to stop all of these risks occurring, but there are steps that can be taken to ensure your work environment is as safe as possible.
Responsible and safety conscious organizations identify risks to occupational health and safety before they occur and implement management systems to reduce the likelihood of these events happening.
What is an OHS management system?
An OHS management system involves four key stages:
1. Identifying and prioritising all of these possible hazards and risks
2. Deciding who in the organization has responsibility to address them
3. Giving them the resources and authority to do something about it
4. Evaluating and reviewing what has been implemented
What does the StandardsMark for Occupational Health and Safety mean?
When you see our StandardsMark for Occupational Health and Safety associated with an organization it shows that they are serious about taking care of OHS risks.
You know that they have looked at the possible OHS risks in their own workplace and have implemented a management system that aims to reduce the chances of those risks occurring on their premises.
How do organizations obtain SAI Global’s OHS StandardsMark?
Organizations gain the right to display the OHS StandardsMark after being independently assessed by a SAI Global auditor against national and international OHS standards.
An OHS StandardsMark demonstrates to an organisation’s employees, clients, suppliers and the wider community that they are focused on providing a safe and healthy work environment.