The standard provides an outline for any organizations, regardless of their complexity, business scale or nature of business, to holistically manage and supervise their occupational safety and health hazard. The OHSAS 18001 is intended and designed to enable any scale of organizations to demonstrate their commitment towards providing a safe and efficient working environment to all employees. It will simply help the organization to identify and understand their OHS risks and to improve upon their performance by actively managing these activities internally.

The organizations productivity can be further improved through the rationale of OHSAS 18001 by focusing continuously on minimizing the occupational hazard risk within the workplace.

OHSAS 18001 is the latest version and certification requirement for the Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems. It has been formulated/created on the published criteria of the BS 8800 and the Management Regulations 1992. 

The OHSAS 18001 certificate defines and represents the standard for an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system, this will enable any organization to control and manage its OH&S risks and improve further towards its overall performance.

Based on the Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series of OHSAS 18001 facilitates any organization to 

The occupational health and safety assessment series OHSAS 18001 helps and leads the organizations to create a more defined occupational health and safety policies and objectives. The intention of this standard is to guide and achieve an accident-free/zero-accident on any workplaces and heading towards an Integrated Safety Policy through the OHSAS 18001. This will avoid the growing incidents on any sites and or within the organizations. The OHSAS 18001 certification is applicable to all industries and sectors. 

OHSAS 18001 does not modify any product or service safety; instead, it will continuously safeguards the health and safety of every employees and other stakeholders within the organization.

This standard has been replaced by ISO 45001 :2018 .

The Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) Management System is a comprehensive description aimed to facilitate and support any organization to control OH&S risks and continuously improve its daily operations and performance. A safety oriented approach can be integrated within the company’s processes linked with the OHSAS 18001:2007 Certification to demonstrate a commitment towards a safety working environment and an advanced protection to all employees against any injuries that may occur at a work place.

OHSAS 18001:2007 has been established to be fully compatible/identical with the other management system standards such as ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004, this will facilitate the integration of quality, environmental and OH&S management systems by any organizations.

The OHSAS specification is applicable to any organization that wishes to:

• Establish an OH&S management system to liquidate or decrease risk to any employees and other interested parties who may be exposed to OH&S risks associated with in its daily/operational activities. 
• Implement, maintain and continually improve an OH&S management system. 
• Assure and aligns the organizations conformances based on its stated OH&S policy.
• Demonstrate and promote such conformance to others positively.
• Seek certification/registration of its OH&S management system by an external organization.
• Make a self-determination and declaration of conformance with this OHSAS specification.

Most of the leading companies in the world are adopting and practicing the OHSAS 18001 – Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems. It is very essential to any organization to maintain and align their Health and Safety Management principles and also to upkeep the organizations reputation in the global scene. Companies which have implemented the above systems receives the benefit of the marketing edge and it facilitates them to continuously maintain throughout the implemented employee protection program. The distinguishing factor in today’s competitive market will represent the organizations commitment to protect the health and safety of every employees.

Adapted from the OHSAS 18001:2007

Nbiz Infosol Certification is in co-ordination with many leading certification body which are internationally recognized to help our client on achieving any relevant ISO Standards.

The phases on the above diagram explains only the commonly used processes/activities in order to provide a clear summary explanation/objective during the certification process. 

Nbiz Consultants Team will facilitate mostly on gathering the requirements, coordinating on the schedule, as well as submitting the requirements to the certification body. 

Nbiz Infosol will not have any control/influence on the schedule/decision by any Certification Body.

Kindly note that there are extra phases involved on each relevant standards that the Certification Body Representative may add and apply whenever necessary. 

   1. Phase I - Application and Scoping on the required certification.

The general information required by the Certification Body Representative for the application and scoping are as follows:

•  Initial System Study on the relevant field of certification applied and interested for, involved activities of the organization, no. of employees and the details on the available technical resources, any related subsidiary/entities.
• Any related information within the organization that will effect on the requirements to fulfill the conformity related processes, consultations on the management system, and requirements on seeking the certifications.

   2. Phase II - Audit Planning 

• Identification of Audit Criteria, scope and objectives. 
• Audit Schedule preparation
• Co-ordination with clients regarding audit details and logistics.
• Preparation of checklists, audit formats, etc.

  3. Phase III – Stage 1 - Certification Audit

      The Certification Body Auditors will perform the following:

• Certification Body Representative will gather detail for the company’s background/information and reviewing the existing documents to understand and evaluate the company’s set objectives, policies and procedures.
• Assessing the processes in place and comparing on the set objectives is being facilitated by our consultants in order to know if it is aligned within the organizations objectives.

    Phase III - Stage II – Audit (On-site)

• Opening Meeting
• Audit execution and identification of non-conformities
• Closing Meeting
• Follow-up Audit
• Audit Closure

  4. Phase IV - Certification approval process is to validate the organizations system compliance and implementation. The certification can be a useful tool to boost the company’s credibility. This will also demonstrate that the products and services are being met along with the customers’ expectations. On every organization the certification is a legal or contractual requirement. 

  5. Phase V - Surveillance Audit - are being performed after a year of the certification. The purpose of the surveillance audit is to check if the standards are being implemented and maintained.

  6. Phase VI – Re-scoping/Change of Scope – this is to continuously evaluate the continual fulfillment and improvement of all the required and relevant documents within the management system standard. In case there are changes to be implement on the new services/processes/products or regulatory authority’s requirements, changes required from the Top Management the Phase III – Certification Audit shall be applicable. 

  7. Phase VII – Certificate Renewal – the re-certification renewal demonstrates that the organization is continuously striving for improvement into the implemented Management System in order to achieve and meet the client’s satisfaction and regulatory authority’s requirements/expectations.

• Nbiz Infosol can assist your organization to acquire any relevant ISO certifications which is well-known internationally. It will generate additional business opportunities, exhibit the organizations compliance and commitment to the best-practices in any industries in order to be more competitive in today’s market.
• Nbiz Infosol consists of professionals which are high level and practically experienced and very senior Project Directors along with our well-experienced and knowledgeable Senior Consultants.
• Nbiz Infosol location advantage (Since we are an Abu Dhabi based company, we are very close to the client and this will be helpful for communications and coordination purposes).
• Nbiz Infosol strongly promotes and implements the facilitations on the relevant Management System not only for the sake of certification but to really make a difference in the processes and procedures that will be implemented throughout any organization.
• Nbiz Infosol consist of some project members which are also SKEA assessors this can add value to the assignment as Abu Dhabi government is highly recommending Organizational Excellence program across Abu Dhabi Emirate (and UAE).
• Nbiz Infosol prices are very competitive in the market without compromising our quality of service which in return provides our company’s commitment and to maintain repeated orders from our clients.
• Nbiz Infosol is driven by professional Senior Consultants with good cross functional knowledge of the other standards such as ISO 14000, OHSAS 18000 which will also add value to the project.
• Nbiz Infosol can be a good channel to assist the standardization within the organization. It will help to promote worldwide trading, encouraging rationalization, maintaining quality assurance and environmental protection, as well as improving the security and communication at all levels within the organization.
• Nbiz Consultants Team will work collaboratively and will be able to support the organization within the entire certification process.
• Nbiz Consultants Team drives the standardization within the organization to promote worldwide trading, encouraging rationalization, maintaining quality assurance and environmental protection, as well as improving the security and communication at all levels within the organization.
• Nbiz Infosol offers a comprehensive services that can help the organization to achieve the OHSAS 18001:2007 certification as follows:
• Our well-experienced Nbiz Consultants Team provides assistance on establishing and improving an OHS Policy and objectives for your organization.
• Nbiz Consultants Team will be facilitating on identifying the required documents for the certification.
• Nbiz Consultants Team are providing training for the organizations key personnel on implementing the OHSAS standard.
• Nbiz Consultants Team visits and assist the clients to identify risks, hazards and applicable laws and regulations.
• Nbiz Consultants Team are fully experienced on proposing new implementation for the organizations benefit such as performing an internal audit and performing a management review.

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