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BSI Health and Safety Quick-Check Online/PDA

The new self-assessment tool giving you confidence in your health and safety management systems

BSI Health & Safety Quick-Check uses a series of questions to interrogate your occupational health and safety management system against best practice standards such as BS OHSAS 18001. It helps you to identify where your occupational health and safety management system is working well and where the system needs attention.

What it can do for you

• Provide you with a series of questions, broken down into 16 discrete sections to help you through a comprehensive review of your OH&S management system
• Give you an appreciation of how your OH&S management system is performing against the benchmark standard BS OHSAS 18001, with a percentage weighted score
• Direct electronic access to the relevant standards and guidance so that you have the latest information at your fingertips either on your desktop or hand-held device
• Help you identify OH&S risks and gaps so that you can improve and amend your policy to ensure that your organization follows best practice
• Add value to your business by demonstrating good governance.

Features of the new BSI Health and Safety Quick-Check tool

BSI Health and Safety Quick-Check is a web-based tool that contains a series of questions, broken down into 16 discrete sections. The 16 sections are:

1. Policy
2. Hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control
3. Legal and other requirements
4. Objectives and management programmes
5. Structure and responsibility
6. Training, awareness and competence
7. Consultation and communication
8. Documentation
9. Document and data control
10. Operational control
11. Emergency preparedness and response
12. Performance management and monitoring
13. Accidents, incidents, nonconformities and corrective and preventative action
14. Records and record management
15. Audit
16. Management review

These question sets reference the recognized standard OHSAS 18001 (adopted and implemented as a British Standard, BS OHSAS 18001 in 2007) and are key elements that are auditable in any OH&S management system.

Features include:

• Easy to understand and user-friendly web-based software – all you need is a browser and access to the internet
• Set questions for simple ”yes” or “no” answer covering each aspect of occupational health and safety systems
• For each question you have the option to add any comments or information on evidence

Documents Include

• Direct electronic access to a library of the full-text standards and guidance
  • BS OHSAS 18001:2007 Occupational health and safety management systems. Requirements
  • BS OHSAS 18002:2008 Occupational health and safety management systems. Guidelines for the implementation of OHSAS 18001:2007
  • BS OHSAS 18004:2008 Guide to achieving effective occupational health and safety performance 
  • Managing Safety the Systems Way (4th Ed.) by David Smith, Geoff Hunt and Clive Green
  • OHSAS 18001:1999 Occupational health and safety management systems. Specification
• Where relevant to a question, there is a direct link to the standard and guidance
• Assessments can be stored and updated as required
• No need to complete the assessment in one sitting. You can work through assessments at your own pace and you can retrieve them at any time, giving you flexibility of use
• An auto-generated summary and recommendations function in the form of two types of reports so that you can determine the status of compliance or non-compliance of your OH&S management system
  • Detailed report that uses a traffic light system to highlight how your OH&S management system is performing
    • Green – the requirement needs to be addressed to avoid a minor non-compliance
    • Amber – not meeting the requirement and could lead to a non-compliance as a minimum
    • Red – the requirement is a top priority
  • This report details all of the questions, their respective answers and any comments or reference to evidence. It also has a report summary illustrating the weighted score of each section in the form of a chart. Each score is given in percentage terms.
  • Report summary illustrates the weighted score of each section in the form of a chart, so that you can easily identify the areas that need more attention.
• Available online and accessible through your PC or on a hand-held PDA – an easy and convenient tool for use in different locations and across sites.
• Technical support team to help you with any training or technical issues you may encounter during your subscription

Who should use this product?

Health and safety managers Health and safety auditors – internal and external Compliance officers and managers Those responsible for integrating management systems in organizations

Technical requirements

PC: Microsoft Windows, Mac or Linux with web browser PDA: Windows Pocket PC with web browser

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Price: £495 +VAT

This price entitles one user (one user ID and password) to unlimited use of BSI Health and Safety Quick-Check for one year.

Should you wish to discuss your requirements with BSI British Standards please contact us on +44 (0)20 8996 7071.