Information

  • Organisation

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  • Location

  • Auditees

  • Executive Summary

5 Leadership

5.1 Leadership and commitment

  • Top management is identified

  • Top management demonstrates leadership and commitment by...

  • Taking accountability for IMS effectiveness

  • Ensuring IMS policy and objectives are established and are compatible with strategic direction and context of organization

  • Ensuring IMS is integrated into organization's business processes

  • Ensuring resources are available

  • Ensuring IMS nonconformities and opportunities are identified and action is taken

  • Ensuring work related hazards and opportunities are systematically identified, QHSE risks and opportunities are evaluated and prioritized and action is taken to achieve risk reduction

  • Ensuring that processes are established for the consultation and active participation of workers (and, as applicable, their representatives) in the establishment, implementation, maintenance and continual improvement of the IMS, identifying and removing obstacles or barriers to participation

  • Communicating importance of effective IMS and of conforming to its requirements

  • Ensuring the IMS meets its intended outcomes

  • Directing and supporting persons to contribute to the effectiveness of the IMS

  • Promoting continuous improvement

  • Supporting other relevant management roles to demonstrate their leadership as it applies to their areas of responsibility

  • Promoting and leading a positive culture with regard to the IMS

5.2 Policy

  • The organisations IMS Policies...

  • Are appropriate to the purpose and context of the organization, including the nature of its QHSE risk and opportunities.

  • Provide a framework for setting IMS objectives

  • Include a commitment to satisfy applicable legal and other requirements

  • Include a commitment to the control of QHSE risks through hierarchy of control

  • Include a commitment to continual improvement of the IMS

  • Include a commitment to worker participation and consultation

  • Are maintained as documented information

  • Are communicated within organization

  • Are available to interested parties

  • Are reviewed periodically to ensure that they remains relevant and appropriate

5.3 Organizational roles, responsibilities, accountabilities and authorities

  • Responsibilities and authorities for relevant roles are assigned and communicated within the organization

  • Assigned responsibility and authority to ensure IMS conforms to the applicable ISO standards

  • Assigned responsibility and authority for reporting to top management the performance of the IMS

5.4 Participation, consultation and representation

  • The organization...

  • provides the mechanisms, time, training and resources necessary for consultation and participation

  • provides timely access to clear, understandable and relevant information about the IMS

  • Identifies and removes obstacles or barriers to participation and minimizing those that cannot be removed

  • Emphasizes the consultation of non-managerial works on:<br>1) determining the needs and expectations of interested parties<br>2) establishing the QHSE policies <br>3) assigning organizational roles, responsibilities and authorities, as applicable<br>4) determining how to fulfil legal requirements and other requirements<br>5) establishing IMS objectives and planning to achieve them<br>6) determining applicable controls for outsourcing, procurement and contractors<br>7) determining what needs to be monitored, measured and evaluated<br>8) planning, establishing, implementing and maintaining an audit programme(s)<br>9) ensuring continual improvement

  • Emphasizes the participation of non-managerial workers in the following:<br>1) determining the mechanisms for their consultation and participation;<br>2) identifying hazards and assessing risks and opportunities<br>3) determining actions to eliminate hazards and reduce QHSE risks<br>4) determining competence requirements, training needs, training and evaluating training<br>5) determining what needs to be communicated and how this will be done<br>6) determining control measures and their effective implementation and use<br>7) investigating incidents and nonconformities and determining corrective actions

  • Ensures that relevant external interested parties are consulted, when appropriate, about matters pertinent to the IMS

Approval

  • Date and time of approval

  • Approver's signature

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