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OHSAS 18001 – Systematisering & Introduktion till Certifiering av Arbetsmiljöarbetet på TPP AB

Mårtensson, Cecilia and Winter, Sofia (2005) MIO920
Production Management
Abstract
roblem description Occupational health and safety is an area that is
becoming highlighted partly because the legislation is
getting stricter but also since a lot of companies
realize the importance of taking care of human
resources. For this reason interest is growing for an
occupational health and safety management system
that also is compatible with ISO 9000 and ISO
14001. OHSAS 18001 was jointly developed by a
number of national standard and certification bodies
to meet these requirements. Trelleborg Protective
Products AB (TPP AB) is already having a well
developed occupational health and safety work but
wishes to improve it even further and implement
OHSAS 18001. The motive for this is to live up to
occupational health... (More)
roblem description Occupational health and safety is an area that is
becoming highlighted partly because the legislation is
getting stricter but also since a lot of companies
realize the importance of taking care of human
resources. For this reason interest is growing for an
occupational health and safety management system
that also is compatible with ISO 9000 and ISO
14001. OHSAS 18001 was jointly developed by a
number of national standard and certification bodies
to meet these requirements. Trelleborg Protective
Products AB (TPP AB) is already having a well
developed occupational health and safety work but
wishes to improve it even further and implement
OHSAS 18001. The motive for this is to live up to
occupational health and safety legislation and to
improve the situation for the employees.
V
Objective The objective with this investigation and the thesis is
to map the occupational health and safety work at
TPP AB and to compare it with the occupational
health and safety legislation and the requirements
according to OHSAS 18001. Further, the objective is,
by using the mapping and benchmarking, to generate
suggestions on how to develop and improve the
occupational health and safety work at TPP AB.
Method The study has been conducted as a number of case
studies with an explorative, descriptive and normative
approach. In order to perform the mapping,
observations, interviews, inspection of documentaries
and an inquiry study has been carried out. A
benchmarking has been conducted to get inspiration
from how other companies has chosen to organise
and structure their occupational health and safety
management systems.
Conclusions At the moment TPP AB has a good base to deal with
the occupational health and safety work but there is
room for improvement. When it comes to observance
of the law there are only a few things to complain
about. To get certified the company has to clarify the
structure and responsibilities for the occupational
health and safety work. TPP AB also has to improve
the communication with their employees and needs to
set up goals for the occupational health and safety
work. In contrast to today’s work the company needs
to work more proactive with the occupational health
and safety matters and with regularity overview and
audit the present work. (Less)
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author
Mårtensson, Cecilia and Winter, Sofia
supervisor
organization
course
MIO920
year
type
M1 - University Diploma
subject
keywords
management system, OHSAS 18001, SAM, occupational health and safety legislation, implementation, Occupational health and safety, certification
other publication id
05/5225
language
Swedish
id
2005793
date added to LUP
2011-06-29 15:12:06
date last changed
2011-06-29 15:12:06
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  abstract     = {{roblem description Occupational health and safety is an area that is
becoming highlighted partly because the legislation is
getting stricter but also since a lot of companies
realize the importance of taking care of human
resources. For this reason interest is growing for an
occupational health and safety management system
that also is compatible with ISO 9000 and ISO
14001. OHSAS 18001 was jointly developed by a
number of national standard and certification bodies
to meet these requirements. Trelleborg Protective
Products AB (TPP AB) is already having a well
developed occupational health and safety work but
wishes to improve it even further and implement
OHSAS 18001. The motive for this is to live up to
occupational health and safety legislation and to
improve the situation for the employees.
V
Objective The objective with this investigation and the thesis is
to map the occupational health and safety work at
TPP AB and to compare it with the occupational
health and safety legislation and the requirements
according to OHSAS 18001. Further, the objective is,
by using the mapping and benchmarking, to generate
suggestions on how to develop and improve the
occupational health and safety work at TPP AB.
Method The study has been conducted as a number of case
studies with an explorative, descriptive and normative
approach. In order to perform the mapping,
observations, interviews, inspection of documentaries
and an inquiry study has been carried out. A
benchmarking has been conducted to get inspiration
from how other companies has chosen to organise
and structure their occupational health and safety
management systems.
Conclusions At the moment TPP AB has a good base to deal with
the occupational health and safety work but there is
room for improvement. When it comes to observance
of the law there are only a few things to complain
about. To get certified the company has to clarify the
structure and responsibilities for the occupational
health and safety work. TPP AB also has to improve
the communication with their employees and needs to
set up goals for the occupational health and safety
work. In contrast to today’s work the company needs
to work more proactive with the occupational health
and safety matters and with regularity overview and
audit the present work.}},
  author       = {{Mårtensson, Cecilia and Winter, Sofia}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{OHSAS 18001 – Systematisering & Introduktion till Certifiering av Arbetsmiljöarbetet på TPP AB}},
  year         = {{2005}},
}