Hello Pancho !
Effectively part 2 of ILO-OSH gives suggestions for country level. Some countries run in this way throught national standards body (ex : USA, Russia...), some other adopt directly ILO-OSH in their ministry organizations (e.g. Brasil, even I don't know how). But when I spoke of the ILO-OSH in our companies I mentioned part 3 of ILO-OSH.
To answer your request I select these three strengths of differences between ILO-OSH and BS OHSAS 18001:
- A better real participation of employees in various aspects of OSHMS, which does not mean that the employer lost its prerogative of being the sole decision maker. Employee participation provides a kind of "ergonomic" consideration on the work "reality" in the selection and operation of the business, and facilitates the implementation of new provisions.
- A greater consideration of health workers (health in work) and more balanced long-term relation to security issues (instead of having OSHMS working mainly or only security issues). Now finally occupational health is often at least as damaging for the company that occupationnal accidents.
- Risk prevention (assement at first) is not done only down on the existing, but ILO-OSH grows better to act upstream especially during "change" occurring or in the purchasing process of goods or services. And it's a little beet similar regarding legal OSH requirements identification and exploitation.
In summary (in addition to its tripartite origine facilitating its communication with employees) all the ILO-OSH part 3 paragraphs are more explicit : it makes easier to understand and more directly operational to apply even if we are not a OSH specialist.
Thank you for having shared with me (and my wrongly english...).
Effectively part 2 of ILO-OSH gives suggestions for country level. Some countries run in this way throught national standards body (ex : USA, Russia...), some other adopt directly ILO-OSH in their ministry organizations (e.g. Brasil, even I don't know how). But when I spoke of the ILO-OSH in our companies I mentioned part 3 of ILO-OSH.
To answer your request I select these three strengths of differences between ILO-OSH and BS OHSAS 18001:
- A better real participation of employees in various aspects of OSHMS, which does not mean that the employer lost its prerogative of being the sole decision maker. Employee participation provides a kind of "ergonomic" consideration on the work "reality" in the selection and operation of the business, and facilitates the implementation of new provisions.
- A greater consideration of health workers (health in work) and more balanced long-term relation to security issues (instead of having OSHMS working mainly or only security issues). Now finally occupational health is often at least as damaging for the company that occupationnal accidents.
- Risk prevention (assement at first) is not done only down on the existing, but ILO-OSH grows better to act upstream especially during "change" occurring or in the purchasing process of goods or services. And it's a little beet similar regarding legal OSH requirements identification and exploitation.
In summary (in addition to its tripartite origine facilitating its communication with employees) all the ILO-OSH part 3 paragraphs are more explicit : it makes easier to understand and more directly operational to apply even if we are not a OSH specialist.
Thank you for having shared with me (and my wrongly english...).