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Research On The Integration Of ISO14001 And OHSMS

Posted on:2004-03-30Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R Y ZhouFull Text:PDF
GTID:2156360122966512Subject:Safety Technology and Engineering
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With the process of the world integration going on, many enterprises come to realize that environment and occupational health and safety become one of the key problems they must be faced with, but during their practice in the establishment, certification and continual improvement of ISO 14001 and OHSMS, they also find some important issues mat can be described as follows:Firstly the coexistence of two kinds of system documents and organizations that deal with the problems of environment and occupational health and safety respectively leads to repetitive management, hard harmonization and low efficiency.Secondly some aspects of the two management systems are overlapped and intersected, and some resources such as human resources, time and finance are wasted.Thirdly the respective establishment and certification of ISO 14001 and OHSMS increase enterprises' cost and expenditure, and therefore impede their popularization in china.Based on the above problems, the article presents the integration of ISO 14001 and OHSMS and analyzes its feasibility. First of all they all comply with the principle of PDCA and the idea of continual improvement, and accomplish their purpose by controlling the whole process. Then their structure and running mode are alike and they are all required to be written into documents and files. In addition the implement of the two management systems has the same guiding idea that attaches great importance to prevention, that is, great attention to the prevention has been transferred from the end to the beginning of process. Finally their audit procedures are alike and their implements can eliminate the non-tax barriers in international market and enhance the enterprises' competence.However the integration of ISO14001 and OHSMS is by no means the simple addition of the two management systems, but the organic combination of them. So author takes the following clues and methods. Firstly the principles of PDCA and continual improvement are taken as the nucleus of the integration of the two management systems. Secondly theory of system, theory' of information and cybernetics are regarded as the basic theories and running methods for the integration of the two management systems. Thirdly considering that the crux of the integration of the two management systems is to solve the problems of the overlap and intersection of some system aspects, so comparative study and the principle of seeking common points while reserving difference are employed. Fourthly die same running mode as that of ISO14001 or OHSMS is adopted to be that of the Integral Management System of ESH (called in this dissertation) because the two management systems take like running modes. Fifthly during the practice in the integration author combines those system aspects and requirements that are common in the two management systems, adopts the system aspects, which have more requirements or whose requirements are stricter than those of the counterparts, at the ones of the Integral Management System of ESH.Then the article describes the approaches of fulfilling the integration of the twomanagement systems, that is, how to accomplish the process of the integration of ISO 14001 and OHSMS. In fact the accomplishment of the integration of ISO14001 and OHSMS can be embodied by establishing an integral set of system documents that meet the requirements of both ISO 14001 and OHSMS at the same time. Therefore author emphasizes the description of the integration of management manual and programmed documents of integral management system of ESH, and explains why and how to fulfill the integration of management manual and procedure documents. In addition, some responding problems such as the establishment of the responding management organization and the training of internal auditor of the integral management system of ESH are given and explained.For the Integral Management System of ESH, it should also have its own running mode, system aspects and corresponding requirements mat are standardized so as to help enterpris...
Keywords/Search Tags:Occupational Health and Safety Management System, Unification, Environment Management System, Integral Management System
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