Ohsas 18001 audit checklist
An ohsas 18001 audit checklist is a tool used by safety officers and top management to confirm if the organization’s oh&s management system complies with the ohsas 18001 standard. use this checklist to assess your organization’s readiness for third-party certification.
What does this form include?
This form contains 46 sections:
4.1 General requirements
- The organization shall establish, document, implement, maintain, and continually improve an OH&S management system in accordance with the requirements of this OHSAS Standard and determine how it will fulfill these requirements.
- The organization shall define and document the scope of its OH&S management system.
Top management shall define and authorize the organization’s OH&S policy and ensure that within the d
4.2 Occupational Health & Safety policy
- a) is appropriate to the nature and scale of the organization’s OH&S risks;
- b) includes a commitment to prevention of injury and ill health and continual improvement in OH&S management and OH&S performance;
- c) includes a commitment to at least comply with applicable legal requirements and with other requirements to which the organization subscribes that relate to its OH&S hazards;
- d) provides the framework for setting and reviewing OH&S objectives;
- e) is documented, implemented and maintained;
- f) is communicated to all persons working under the control of the organization with the intent that they are made aware of their individual OH&S obligations;
- g) is available to interested parties;
- h) is reviewed periodically to ensure that it remains relevant and appropriate to the organization.
4.3.1 Hazard Identification, risk assessment and determining controls
4.3 Planning
- The organization shall establish, implement and maintain a procedure(s) for the ongoing hazard identification, risk assessment, and determination of necessary controls.
The procedure(s) for hazard identification and risk assessment shall take into account:
NOTE 1: It may be more appropriate for such hazards to be assessed as an environmental aspect.
The organization’s methodology for hazard identification and risk assessment shall:
When determining controls, or considering changes to existing controls, consideration shall be given
NOTE 2 For further guidance on hazard identification, risk assessment and determining controls, see O
4.3.2 Legal and Other Requirements
4.3.3 Objectives & Programme(s)
The organization shall establish, implement and maintain a programme(s) for achieving its objectives.
4.4.1 Resources, roles, responsibility, accountability and authority
4.4 Implementation and Operation
- Top management shall take ultimate responsibility for OH&S and the OH&S management system.
Top management shall demonstrate its commitment by:
NOTE 1: Resources include human resources and specialized skills, organizational infrastructure, tech
The organization shall appoint a member(s) of top management with specific responsibility for OH&S, i
NOTE 2: The top management appointee (e.g. in a large organization, a Board or executive committee me
4.4.2 Competence, training and awareness
The organization shall establish, implement and maintain a procedure(s) to make persons working under
Training procedures shall take into account differing levels of:
4.4.3 Communication, Participation and Consultation
4.4.3.1 Communication• With regard to its OH&S hazards and OH&S management system, the organization s
4.4.3.2 Participation and Consultation• The organization shall establish, implement, and maintain pro
4.4.4 Documentation• The OH&S management system documentation shall include:
NOTE: It is important that documentation is proportional to the level of complexity, hazards and risk
4.4.5 Control of DocumentsDocuments required by the OH&S management system and by this OHSAS Standard
The organization shall establish, implement and maintain a procedure(s) to:
4.4.6 Operational Control
For those operations and activities, the organization shall implement and maintain:
4.4.7 Emergency Preparedness and Response• The organization shall establish, implement and maintain a
4.5.1 Performance Measurement and Monitoring• The organization shall establish, implement and maintai
4.5 Checking
- a) both qualitative and quantitative measures, appropriate to the needs of the organization;
- b) monitoring of the extent to which the organization’s OH&S objectives are met;
- c) monitoring the effectiveness of controls (for health as well as for safety);
- d) proactive measures of performance that monitor conformance with the OH&S programme(s), controls and operational criteria;
- e) reactive measures of performance that monitor ill health, incidents (including accidents, near-misses, etc.), and other historical evidence of deficient OH&S performance;
- f) recording of data and results of monitoring and measurement sufficient to facilitate subsequent corrective action and preventive action analysis.
- If equipment is required to monitor or measure performance, the organization shall establish and maintain procedures for the calibration and maintenance of such equipment, as appropriate. Records of calibration and maintenance activities and results shall be retained.
4.5.2 Evaluation of compliance
- The organization shall keep records of the results of the periodic evaluations.- NOTE The frequency
4.5.3 Incident Investigation, Non-conformity, Corrective & Preventive Action4.5.3.1 Incident investig
4.5.3.2 Nonconformity, corrective action and preventive action• The organization shall establish, imp
4.5.4 Control of Records
4.5.5 Internal Audit• The organization shall ensure that internal audits of the OH&S management syste
Audit procedure(s) shall be established, implemented and maintained that address:
4.6 Management Review
- Top management shall review the organization’s OH&S management system, at planned intervals, to ensure its continuing suitability, adequacy and effectiveness. Reviews shall include assessing opportunities for improvement and the need for changes to the OH&S management system, including the OH&S policy and OH&S objectives. Records of the management reviews shall be retained.
Input to management reviews shall include:
The outputs from management reviews shall be consistent with the organization’s commitment to continu
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