OHSAS 18001 is a British Standard for occupational health and safety management systems. It exists to help all kinds of organizations put in place demonstrably sound occupational health and safety performance. It is widely seen as the world's most recognized occupational health and safety management systems standard.
The OHSAS 18001 specification was updated in July 2007. Among other changes, the new specification was more closely aligned with the structures of ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 so that organizations could more easily adopt OHSAS 18001 alongside existing management systems. Additionally, the 'health' component of 'health and safety' was given greater emphasis.[6]
Later, the BSI Group decided to adopt OHSAS 18001 as a British standard, hence 'BS OHSAS 18001'.[7] BSI Group subsequently adopted the updated 18002 guidance specification for publication as BS OHSAS 18002 in 2008.
