OHSAS 18001

Occupation Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS), a management model of modern safety production arisen in the globe in late 1980s, is referred to as a post-industry epoch-making management method together with the management system stipulated in ISO9001 and ISO14001 Standards. GB/T 28001-2011(OHSAS18001:2007) standard, the unique OHSAS standard that applicable to the third party certification at present, provides structured operating mechanism for various organizations, and helps them to improve safety production management, and pushes forward occupation health in a safe and continuous manner.
 
With the continuous development of industry and technology, the safety issue of staff is becoming increasingly noticeable. Accidents in production worldwide are continuously increasing. According to the statistics of the International Labor Organization, staff‘s safety and health have been threaten seriously: there are 270 million cases of occupational accidents, and 2 million people die of occupational accidents and diseases related to working, and 160 million people suffer from occupational diseases per year worldwide. In the late 1990s, some developed countries took examples from the successful experience of ISO9000 certification to carry out occupational health and safety management system to ensure staff‘s health and safety. In Britain, BS8800 international standards-- Occupational Health And Safety Management System Guide was issued in 1996. Since then, some organizations in the United States, Austria, Japan, and Norway have worked out guidance document of OHSAS. Thirteen organizations including BSI, DNV put forward and revised OHSAS standards, namely, OHSAS18001:1999 OHSAS--Specification, OHSAS 18002:2000 OHSAS-Implementing Guide, and OHSAS18001:2007 OHSAS--Requirement, OHSAS18002: 2008 OHSAS--Implementing Guide. OHSAS18001 is now the international standards of OHSAS.
 
Since reform and opening up, China’s national economy has been maintaining a high-speed growth. However, occupational health and safety, one of the most important symbols of social development, is far behind of the steps of economic development. In order to improve the production safety as soon as possible, to ensure the basic benefits of all laboring people, to promote the development of trade, and to comply with the requirements stipulated by WTO, State Bureau of Quality Supervision successively issued national standards GB/T28001-2001 (OHSAS--Specification) and GB/T28001-2011 (OHSAS--Requirements) in 2001 and 2011 respectively, they equally adopt all contents of OHSAS18001:1999 and OHSAS 18001:2007, and it‘s applicable to any organization which hopes to establish OHSAS and seek for external organization’s certification of its OHSAS.