The development of the standards for management systems such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 are moving towards a higher degree of compatibility. At the same time, organisations with more than one management system increasingly consider to or integrate these management systems. The paper discusses this development and presents different levels of integration. The aim is to suggest the ne...

Occupational health and safety management systems (OHSMS) have become popular as agencies such as OSHA expect to propose regulations and as consensus standards and industry programs such as ANSI/AIHA/ASSE Z10, OHSAS 18001 and National Mining Association’s (NMA) CORESafety are implemented. Other management-system-like processes have been implemented over the years as well, including OSHA’s Proce...

Air concentrations of and inhalation exposure to total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) and benzene was monitored separately at two oil refineries from 1977 to 2014. Prevention policies and control measures that may explain changes were surveyed. The aim was to evaluate how the application of of Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series OHSAS 18001.04 principles as well as Environmental prot...

background: in process industries, production, storage, transportation, usage and disposal of chemicals are inherently dangerous and the risk of catastrophic accident occurrence is potentially high. to improve safety level in these industries, establishment of process safety management (psm) system is considered as the most effective measures. this study was conducted to determine the degree of...