Occupational Health Management System (OHMS)

The Occupational Safety and Health Regulation 1994 focus on a comprehensive
approach to safety management, the responsibility for which rests with the employer. The
objective is to create a safety workplace free from risk.
An Occupational Health Management System (OHMS) is a set of plans, actions and
procedures to systematically manage health and safety in the workplace that is endorsed
by the committed employer to achieve the following:
1. Provision of a safe and healthy workplace and the prevention! reduction of
illness and injury for employees
u. Identification of workplace hazards, assessments and control of all risks
The purpose of the OHMS is to systematically eliminate the possibility of accident,
illness, injury or fatality in the workplace by ensuring that the hazards in the workplace
are eliminated or controlled in systematic marmer, rather than waiting a crisis to occur.
Employer has legal responsibilities to provide a safe workplace and systems of wok, to
consult with employees and to keep them informed about health and safety marmers.
In objective the goal of the project, the paper will also discuss about the advantages,
issues and intended users of the Occupational Health Management System (OHMS).