Hi,

I'm new to this forum, but it appears that there is a lot of knowledge out there that I might be able to tap into for my research.

We are a manfacturing company, which makes automotive parts. We have five different sites throughout the United States with a total of 1350 employees. We are exploring the opportunity to put a health and safety management system in place with an international focus.

I have developed a short survey that would be easy to complete over the telephone seeking information from companies who have implemented this system and received certification or have not received certification, but implemented it anyway.

Would anyone be open to me giving you a quick call to ask some questions about the pros, cons, benefits, lessons learned, etc?

Thank you in advance for volunteers. Kim

Hi,

I'm new to this forum, but it appears that there is a lot of knowledge out there that I might be able to tap into for my research.

We are a manfacturing company, which makes automotive parts. We have five different sites throughout the United States with a total of 1350 employees. We are exploring the opportunity to put a health and safety management system in place with an international focus.

I have developed a short survey that would be easy to complete over the telephone seeking information from companies who have implemented this system and received certification or have not received certification, but implemented it anyway.

Would anyone be open to me giving you a quick call to ask some questions about the pros, cons, benefits, lessons learned, etc?

Thank you in advance for volunteers. Kim

Kim,

Because this is an open forum for the learning and development of all participants, why don't you make your "survey" public?

Welcome to The Cove Forums! :bigwave: :bigwave:

Stijloor.

Thanks for your reply. I thought that I did make it public. What do I need to do to change it? Kim

Sorry - I misunderstood. The survey has 14 questions. I am happy to make it public, but I wanted the opportunity to also have a voice to voice dialogue on it. I will post the questions in the next post. Thanks, Kim

Sorry - I misunderstood. The survey has 14 questions. I am happy to make it public, but I wanted the opportunity to also have a voice to voice dialogue on it. I will post the questions in the next post. Thanks, Kim

Hello Kim,

Because of this

Would anyone be open to me giving you a quick call to ask some questions about the pros, cons, benefits, lessons learned, etc?

I was under the impression that you only wanted phone calls.....

Stijloor.

OHSAS Interview Sheet

Company: ________________________ Date: ______________
Contact at company: _______________________ Tel: ____________
Type of industry: _____________________ Number of employees: ______
Corporate wide: No ____; Yes ___ if yes, how many sites? ______
International: Yes ____ No _____
1

What drove your company to initiate the OHSAS process?



2

Did you go through the formal DNV Certification process?
If yes, what benefit did it provide?
If no, rationale?


3

Did you use an external auditor or consultant to assist with the process?

If so, what types of activities did they support?

Who did you use?

Why did you use a consultant?


4

How long did the process take?

What were the stages (individual to your company, length of time)?

What elements comprised each stage?

5

In the project management process, who was involved internally as part of your teams/focus groups (i.e. plant managers, quality, etc.)?


6

Did you include:
Quality? How so?

Environment? How so?

7

How did the implementation of this system affect your safety measurements?

Did you receive a return on investment?

How much did the process cost?


8

How did the implementation affect your culture?


9

Do you currently have a behavior based safety culture in place?


10

How did the implementation of the OHSAS integrate into the socio-economic climate of your organization?


11

Have you pursued OSHA VPP?


12

Other recommendations to enable success of this process…



Is your company willing to allow DMP to complete a site visit? _______________________________________

Would really like to have a phone conversation in this survey if possible. However, will take all feedback. Thanks! Kim

Would really like to have a phone conversation in this survey if possible. However, will take all feedback. Thanks! Kim

Then you'll probably have to wait for someone to contact you by a PM.

What's your survey to be used for anyway?

Thanks for your reply. We want to review the process, successes as well as concerns that companies have worked through in adopting this health and safety management system. We are determining what our strategy is for 2009 -- whether to implement the OHSAS in our company or not. Kim

Kim,not knowing what a "Safety Advisor" is or does I'll just make a couple of general statements.

If you have any kind of effective safety program in place to meet US OSHA requirements, especially if you're a VPP site you'll already have anywhere from 50%-80% of the requirements of 18001 met.

As for detemining strategy for 2009........what's the cost of reduced and managed health & safety risk worth?