OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONDITION (CONSISTENT WITH OBJECTIVES THE ISO 45001 STANDARD)

Occupational health and safety management in business organizations increasingly
entails the need for improvement measures aimed at ruling out or reducing the adverse
impact of threats and untoward factors on the labor force. The result of measures taken is to
get the conformity with the needs and expectations of employees, recognized as internal
customers of this processes.
Creation of safe and hygienic work conditions in the company is inseparably connected
with the need to undertake improvement activities, which are used to eliminate or reduce
the negative impact of hazards and onerousness for employees. Similar factors occur during
a use of systemic requirements.
Despite the adoption of uniform principles, the management systems are a lot varied. In
effect is difficult of talking about a possible of total consistency. Each of these systems,
covering relevant areas the organization activities usually operates as an independent
system with its own management structure. Indicated difficulties are considered as one of
the causes of development the ISO 45001 standard, which is international management
standard of safety and health at work.
The paper enumerates significant reasons for developing the ISO 45001 standard. It
outlines the key guidelines for drafting occupational health and safety management systems
based on ISO 45001 requirements and in keeping with the provisions of OHSAS 18001 and
ILO guidelines2 applied to enhance systemic occupational health and safety management.

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