Organizations in many sectors have realized the internal and external benefits of implementing a sound health and safety management system giving them the structure and control necessary to monitor management practices that result in reduced costs and risks associated with their manufacturing processes.
An independent assessment of your Occupational Heath and Safety System is not only an excellent means of ensuring your safety system is working and protecting your staff, but it also sends a clear message to stakeholders and authorities that you have adopted good safety practices.
In addition, an effective Health and Safety management system demonstrates a risk management approach that will help to reduce accidents and ill health leading to reduced downtime and related expenses. Many have implemented health and safety management systems as a means to help them achieve their corporate objectives while improving the bottom line. Regulatory compliance is a prime objective of an efficient Health and Safety program, but more importantly it provides an organized system ensuring that employees' health needs and concerns are addressed.
Bureau Veritas Certification can help by providing third party verification of a health and safety management system. There are several excellent consensus standards and guidance documents available for example, OHSAS 18001.(