Safety Management System Development and 18001

Benefit from Hastam's unparalleled expertise in Safety Management Systems

Hastam strongly advises its clients that for their protection Safety Management Systems (SMS) should conform to the requirements of BS OHSAS 18001 (usually just called '18001'). This creates the benefit of having a System aligned to your business's requirements rather than attempting to reflect obscure guidance or complex legislation.  However, setting up a safety management system based on 18001 can be a daunting prospect.  Hastam can significantly reduce the time and cost, eliminate trial and error, simplify the process, avoid staff stress and ensure your future success. We believe that more and more organisations are recognising the benefits of 18001 but many are too busy to make the conversion from their existing management system.  Hastam can offer a complete package for the development and implementation of 18001. 

In brief we are able to do the following:

• Write your documentation using Hastam templates saving you large amounts of time.  This documentation covers all of the procedures, work instructions and forms required by 18001, tailored to your requirements.
  
  We will write the document in close consultation with your personnel, who can use it as a mentoring opportunity.  This ensures that we create 'owners' of the management system in the company, who can champion its implementation.
  
  
• Write compliance (evaluation) questions for the relevant 18001 documentation in the form of CHASE modules specific to your organisation.  CHASE can be used by non-safety specialists for monitoring and measuring in their own area, and the safety professional can use it for internal audit.  We can put the compliance (evaluation) questions in CHASE and provide appropriate CHASE training and support.

We can provide the full implementation package, or just individual elements if that better suits your requirements. We will happily prepare a proposal to meet your specific requirements.

Are you interested in changing your organisation's Safety Management System (SMS) to bring it more into line with 18001 but put off by the trouble and expense of getting external certification? Many people do not know that you can get all the benefits of implementing 18001 without the expense of external certification,  This is because 18001 allows for a number of alternative approaches as described in the 'Scope' section of the Standard.

These are applicable to any organisation that wishes to demonstrate conformity with the OHSAS 18001 Standard by:

1. making a self-determination and self-declaration, or
2. seeking confirmation of its conformance by parties having an interest in the organisation, such as customers, or
3. seeking confirmation of its self-declaration by a party external to the organisation, or
4. seeking certification/registration of its OH&S management system by an external organisation.

These options are, of course, arranged in increasing degree of rigour but you should choose the option that is 'fit for purpose' for your organisation.

If you would like to explore the possibility of making a self-declaration and/or having your self-declaration confirmed by Hastam please contact enquires@hastam.co.uk .

CHASE Software

CHASE is a software package developed by Hastam since 1988 which is designed to managed the results from audits and inspection and includes modules designed for 18001.

For more information and a free 60 day trial copy, please visit the CHASE pages.

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