What is Combined Five Star Occupational Health and Safety Management and ISO 45001 Audit?
ISO 45001 is the first globally developed standard for health and safety management systems. It reflects current health and safety management trends and techniques and has replace up to 24 national health and safety standards around the world, including OHSAS 18001.
Our Five Star Occupational Health and Safety Management Audit is a comprehensive, and consultative best practice audit. It provides a quantified outcome with detailed recommendations designed to provide you with a structured route to improve your health and safety management systems and associated arrangements.
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We are in a unique position to offer a combined audit process comprising of the benefits and comprehensive nature of the Five Star Audit as well as the internationally recognised ISO 45001 certification.
Why is it right for my organisation?
Undertaking the combined audit enables you to:
- Receive detailed recommendations to help you improve your health and safety management systems and arrangements
- Gain certification to the international health and safety management standard ISO 45001
- Obtain the unique combination of the comprehensive, quantified, recommendation-based nature of the Five Star Audit together with certification to the international standard ISO 45001
- Benchmark your current systems and arrangements against both audit requirements saving you valuable resources in the process
- Apply for the Sword of Honour award scheme if you achieve a five-star rating.
Why choose us?
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This product is completely unique to the British Safety Council and is the most comprehensive audit on the market
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Our five-star audit specification has been established for more than 10 years and is reviewed and updated on a regular basis.
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We ensure our recommendations reflect current best practice technique in health and safety management.
What will your organisation get from the audit?
- Detailed report
- Detailed recommendations
- Quantified outcome in all 57 elements
- If a five-star achiever, the eligibility to apply for the prestigious Sword of Honour
- Certification to the ISO 45001 standard.
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What audits does the British Safety Council offer?
We currently offer a range of audit products and services including our best practice Five Star Wellbeing Audit, Five Star Occupational Health and Safety, Five Star Environmental and Five Star Integrated audits. We also offer certification audits to the ISO 14001 (2015) standards and the ISO 45001 standard (when issued). A bespoke sector-specific systems review service (safety and environmental) is also available and provides a baseline indication of how effectively your safety, health and/or environmental systems are being implemented across multiple sites or within specific departments.
Five Star Occupational Health and Safety Audit - what is it?
Our Five Star Audit is an internationally recognised, quantified and comprehensive audit process used by organisations to compare their health and safety management system against best practice technique and current trends.
Five Star Occupational Health and Safety Audit - what is changing?
The current specification continues to offer you the opportunity to progress toward a best practice occupational health and safety management system(s) and the business benefits this can produce. The specification aligns best practice safety management indicators (including leadership and stakeholder engagement) against a Plan - Do - Check - Act management model.
As part of the British Safety Council’s commitment to the continual product-improvement, together with a recognition of recent developments in legislative and safety management trends, our five-star audit specification(s) are reviewed on an annual basis.
Five Star Environmental Audit - what is it?
Our Five Star Environmental Audit is an internationally recognised audit process used by leading organisations to compare their environmental performance against best practice and current trends.
What is the Sword of Honour?
The Sword of Honour is an award scheme available to organisations that have achieved a five-star rating in our Five Star Occupational Health and Safety Audit. A separate award process is independently adjudicated and only those submissions from five star organisations, which meet defined criteria, are awarded the sword of honour status. A true recognition of excellence in health and safety management.
What is the Globe of Honour?
The Globe of Honour is an award scheme available to organisations that have achieved a five-star rating in our Five Star Environmental Audit. A separate award process is independently adjudicated and only those submissions from five star organisations, which meet defined criteria, are awarded the globe of honour status. A true recognition of excellence in environmental management.
ISO 45001 - What is it?
A new international health and safety standard management system standard that is expected to eventually replace BS OHSAS 18001. ISO 45001 reflects contemporary health and safety management requirements and is currently due to be published in late 2017.
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