The best way to ensure your employees' safety is by implementing globally recognised systems.
As a business owner it's natural to have concerns about the health and safety of your employees. It's likely you go out of your way to ensure there's a first aid kit in the staff room, and that your machinery is safe to operate. You may even provide training.
But is it enough? If Australian businesses were doing everything 100% right, there wouldn't be the worrying high number of workplace accidents, and deaths, that there are today.
Chatting with other business owners, the terms OHSAS 18001 and AS/NZS 4801 have probably come up. You may even have heard others talking about lead auditor courses, but you're not sure what's involved, and it sounds like a load of paperwork, right!
Getting started
Well, it actually isn't, and the benefits are certainly worth the effort.
The best way to get started is to talk to someone about OHSAS 18001 training. OHSAS 18001 was based on a British safety standard, and then developed by a group of safety experts. AS/NZS 4801, by the way, is similar, but was developed by Australian and New Zealand experts.
In a nutshell, OHSAS 18001 training is aimed at helping businesses control occupational health and safety risks. Of course, it's not quite as simple as that, but your training crew will fully explain the procedures and guide you through the process.
ISO certification
Your training crew should be from a reputable training centre, which implements management systems and guides businesses to ISO certification.
Once you start down the road to implementing OHSAS 18001 or AS/NZS 4801, they will explain the next stage, which is sending key staff on lead auditor training courses.
OHSAS 18001 lead auditor training courses provide the knowledge and skills required to assess the conformance of an organisation's occupational health and safety management systems to the Standard.
Training crews in Brisbane present courses in module format, including an introduction to auditing management systems, focusing on the skills required for auditing, risk assessment and safety reviews.
