OHSAS 18001 Certification

What is OHSAS 18001?

OHSAS 18001 is the Internationally recognized assessment specification for Occupational Health and Safety management systems. It was developed by a selection of leading trade bodies, international standards and certification bodies to help organisations meet their Health and Safety obligations.

OHSAS 18001 has been designed to be compatible with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 and to help your organisation meet their health and safety obligations in an efficient manner. It covers the following key areas:

• Planning for hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control
• OHSAS management programme
• Structure and responsibility
• Training, awareness and competence
• Consultation and communication
• Operational control
• Emergency preparedness and response
• Performance measuring, monitoring and improvement

OHSAS 18001 can be adopted by any organisation wishing to implement a formal procedure to reduce the risks associated with health and safety in the working environment for employees, customers and the general public.

How OHSAS 18001 help your business?

There are many reasons why companies opt to become certified. The following is a list of some of these reasons:

• Potential reduction in the number of accidents
• Potential reduction in downtime and associated costs
• Demonstration of legal and regulatory compliance
• Demonstration to stakeholders of your commitment to health and safety
• Increased access to new customers and business partners
• Better management of health and safety risks, current and future
• Reduced public liability insurance costs

How can we help you achieve –ISO Certification?

Our key objective is to make the process of certification as simple and cost effective for you as possible. We achieve this by minimising your work effort and ‘filling in the gaps’ by providing you any ‘missing’ documentation you need to do to attain certification. This way, we can guarantee successful certification and compliance.Our guiding principles are:

1: Keep it Simple
2: Make the Standards fit the organisation – not the other way round
3: Help you to grow your business

Our tried and tested process combines the preparation of your Integrated Management System (IMS) manual and the Assessment at the same stage. This  approach enables us to Guarantee Certification within 30 days whilst at the same time reducing Certification costs, Customers' Management time and resources, unnecessary 'Bureaucracy and 'Red Tape' and costs of maintaining your Certification.

How much does certification cost?

We have a number of different Certification Schemes to suit every type and size of company. The cost of certification is dependant on the size of the company – specifically, its annual turnover. However, we are able to offer a ‘Free Certification Scheme’ to companies that qualify. This is by far our most popular scheme as it enables companies to receive Certification at no cost and just pay for their annual audits for a fixed period.

Which ever scheme you decide to go for, all our schemes provide the same ‘unique guarantees’:

• Certification within 30 days
• No Certification – No fee
• Discount for certification to multiple standards

Your next step

To find out how to take advantage of our Free Certification Scheme, or any of our other certification schemes, either complete the enquiry form below or call us on
+44 (0)121 248 2248 to arrange a no-obligation meeting with one of our professional IMS Consultants who will be pleased to discuss your company’s certification requirements.