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OHSAS 18000 Consulting and Training

Quality Experts, Inc. provides on-site training and coaching support for companies that are pursuing OHSAS 18000 certification.  Since 1987, our company has been assisting organizations to implement, maintain and certify their ISO 9000 based Quality, Environmental and Health and Safety Management Systems.

100% of our clients have passed their certification audits on the first attempt. We use an approach that is fast and thorough (in some cases as quick as 60 days) as well as cost-effective. In the end, you will have a quality system that you understand and can easily maintain.

We will assist you with implementing and/or maintaining your OHSAS 18000  quality management system by developing and writing required documentation, conducting Internal Audits, training Internal Auditors, training employees to become and remain competent for the Management Review, Corrective Action and Continuous Improvement activities that are required by the standard.

Contact us today to get started towards OHSAS 18000 certification!

Our Approach

OHSAS 18000 implementation, when done correctly, does not require you to adopt unfamiliar procedures but can be based on matching your current activities to address the 18000 requirements. We always begin by documenting your processes as they are. Then we verify and document that all of the 18000 requirements are met by your current processes. Usually nothing more than “tweaking” is required to bring your processes up to the 18000 level.

Once the system is documented we train your employees to conduct simple and easy maintenance activities that require limited experience of the standard itself and ensure easy and inexpensive operating costs. Our systems are designed so that as they mature, they drive tangible benefits of continual performance improvement from your ISO based system.

Our approach is to very precisely interpret the standard and apply it in a way that makes sense to you while being compliant with the standard. We’ll never ask you to do anything that is not in the standard and will always try to focus you on adding value. We will also try to steer you towards reliable, precise and inexpensive registrars!

 We believe that an OHSAS management system can provide tremendous benefits to an organization, increasing performance and reducing hazards but we recognize that at least part of the objective of your project is usually to get an 18000 certificate. Our consultants are RABQSA certified Lead Auditors. That means that they know exactly what the registrar will be looking for in the certification audit.

There are things to do to make it easy to pass an audit and others that will make it difficult. One absolutely critical concern is to build a system that can be demonstrably proven to meet the requirements. Although documented procedures are only mandatory in six areas of ISO, our procedures address all 18000 requirements so that they are easily explained and maintained. If you don’t have procedures to describe how you meet all the requirements, then how are you going to ensure you consistently address them? How are you going to train new people and explain to them the required processes and importantly, if an auditor asks how a particular requirement is addressed then how are you going to remember the correct answer – especially if the people involved in your original project have moved on?

We take your existing processes and activities and document them! This is the approach we use, as described above. You end up with a set of documents that meaningfully describes what you do and easily correlates with the standard.

Contact us today and we will help you start the process towards improved productivity, reduced waste and the prestige of OHSAS 18000 registration.