The Governments current thinking is that it is not practicable to improve the health and safety of the nations economic base by legislation alone.

Legislation is usually called for in response to an accident or incident of some kind. As such, legislation is backward looking. A more practical approach is for the host company to look at what is essential and in doing so operate a risk assessment approach were risks are found and managed well before any legislation makes them a necessity.

The core elements generally accepted as being required for successful health and safety management include, but are not restricted to:

• Health and safety policy
• Risk assessment
• Planning and preventing hazards
• Training and education
• Managing changes resulting from legislation

Statius can assist organisations manage all of the above processes either in isolation or as an integrated set of processes which could be independently assessed to the OHSAS 18001 standard.

OHSAS 18001 requires an organisation to determine its current health & safety activities and to develop programmes and systems that focus on the elimination of risk to staff and other interested parties.

These processes are then developed into a management system that seeks to ensure that health and safety performance is continuously monitored and improved.