Reliability Through TÜV Know-how

OHSAS 18001 represents a specification that can be applied to all types of companies and divisions. It involves a health and labour protection certification system that has been specified by internationally certification bodies. Experienced safety auditors at TÜV Rheinland perform audits of companies in accordance with this specification. The OHSAS 18001 safety and health management system can be integrated into existing management systems as specified in ISO 14001 (environmental management system) or ISO 9001 (quality management system).

OHSAS 18001 standard (Occupational health and safety management system) was created in 1999 by the principle international certification Entities and by some important standardization Entities like BSI, as an international standard of reference was missing.

Its aims is to provide the market just a single standard for Occupational health and safety management system.

Organizations developing a OHSAS certification system get advantages in management efficiency, corporate image, reliability: this means a real additional value and these advantages can be translated in:

	additional and safer control according to 626/94 law
	more efficiency by using resources with a economic increase as consequence
	risk reduction in working environment
	efficiency in managing and controlling all aspects bound with prevention and protection of risks in working
	additional control of labour safety for the whole organization, all external activities included (branch of production places, yards ecc,)
	additional reliability and increasing business in consequence
	best relationship with investors, insurance companies, financial insitutes
	best internal and external relationship in the company

In normative field, next step should be the creation of an ISO standard about this subject, which will be inspired by OHSAS standard.