An OHSMS is a documented site safety plan with procedures and forms that will help you systematically manage your workplace health and safety. They can be simple or complex depending on the needs.
An effective OHSMS should help you achieve a safe and healthy workplace, prevent or reduce illness and injury, identify workplace hazards, and assess and control of risks. It is a businesses systematic way of managing health and safety, and ensures that hazards and risks are controlled or eliminated systematically instead of reacting to issues when they arise. There a number of reasons why you should have one.
It may help:
Most importantly, reduce your incidents
Reduce your premiums
Minimise compensations issues
Increase morale
Increase your marketing power to draw in new business,
Increase the value of your business if you sell it as you