Comparison of Global Safety Management Systems: CSA, ANSI, OHSA's 18000 Series and ILO

摘要

Today we are going to discuss safety management systems and specifically some of the global systems that are best known - ANZI, CSA, OHSA's 18000 series and the ILO standard. There are many benefits to safety management systems, such as being a businesslike approach to safety and being a systematic, explicit and comprehensive process for managing safety hazards and risks. As with all management systems, it provides for goal setting, planning, and measuring performance. Some have asked the question "Why a Management System?" Safety has been around for a long time, there have been many approaches and people are still getting injured, so this methodology must be considered as an approach. With changing work patterns and associated hazards and risks, we need to have a systematic look at it all. In developed countries we are experiencing a shift in types of industries; new technologies; globalization; an aging workforce. In the developing countries we see a shift from rural to industrial activities. Safety gurus such as Dan Peterson have written many articles about these things and indicate that the only way we decrease the risks is to have a true system. But which system?