American National Standard for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems
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This is a voluntary consensus standard for occupational health and safety management systems. It uses recognized management system principles in order to be compatible with quality and environmental management system standards such as the ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 series. The standard also draws from approaches used by the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) guidelines on Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems and from systems in use in organizations in the United States. This compatibility encourages integration of the standard’s requirements into other business management systems in order to enhance overall organizational performance. Each organization electing to conform to this standard will determine how it will evaluate its conformance to this standard.
The purpose of the standard is to provide organizations an effective tool for continual improvement of their occupational health and safety performance. An OHSMS implemented in conformance with this standard can help organizations minimize workplace risks and reduce the occurrence and cost of occupational injuries, illnesses and fatalities. Some organizations that have already developed an effective OHSMS appropriate to their needs may not conform precisely to this standard. In those instances, the standard may serve as a voluntary tool to identify possible opportunities to improve their systems.
ANSI Z10-2005 Standard Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (pdf)
Adele Abrams, ASSE's advocate in Washington, D.C., is an experienced safety and health attorney who wrote an article on Z10. Abrams addresses the use of the standard and suggests what actions SH&E professionals should take with respect to this standard.
Links:
The Compass - Special Issue - ANSI/AIHA Z10 & the SH&E Profession (pdf)
ANSI/ASSE Z10: The New Benchmark for Safety Management Systems (Professional Safety Journal 2/06) (pdf)
Standards Development: ANSI/AIHA Z10, OHS Management Systems (Professional Safety Journal 12/05)(pdf)
Standards Development: ANSI/AIHA Z10, OHS Management Systems (Professional Safety Journal 12/05)(Spanish)
American Society of Safety Engineers Offer New Safety Management Standard (Press Release - October 18, 2005)
ASSE Council on Practices and Standards Z10 Announcement (Email to Members 10/05)
Partners in Safety & Health - President's Message (Professional Safety Journal 10/05)