Occupational health and safety management systems arise from the need to ensure the safety of employees and property security of businesses and to protect them from material and moral damages caused by occupational accidents and occupational diseases. In general, these systems are the set of rules established to ensure the correct and effective implementation of occupational health and safety risk management. These systems require a systematic approach, which requires a lot of technical evaluations and includes many processes. Official institutions also have responsibilities regarding occupational health and safety and legal regulations are issued in this regard.
Regarding the importance of the issue, all of these regulations are based on risk management. Established over OHSAS 18001 standard ISO 45001. The Occupational Health and Safety Management System standard is designed to support enterprises in order to maintain their economic continuity and efficiency while at the same time ensuring their achievement of their occupational health and safety objectives. In other words, these standards are designed to show the steps to be taken to prevent occupational accidents and to prevent occupational diseases. 2017 The ISO 18001 standard, which is now expected to be published in December and will replace the OHSAS 45001 standard, is an international standard that will help businesses fulfill their responsibilities.
