{"id":13,"date":"2009-03-11T10:07:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T14:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinnacleeg.com\/iso\/2009\/03\/11\/ohsas-18001-iso-14001-and-the-aiag\/"},"modified":"2015-04-08T16:39:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T16:39:27","slug":"ohsas-18001-iso-14001-and-the-aiag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pinnacleeg.com\/iso\/ohsas-18001-iso-14001-and-the-aiag\/","title":{"rendered":"OHSAS 18001, ISO 14001 & AIAG"},"content":{"rendered":"

On February 24, 2009 the AIAG (Automotive Industry Action Group) issued a formal statement, e-mailed to all of its members, endorsing the implementation of a formal environmental management system (EMS)<\/a>\u00a0 based on ISO 14001<\/a>. \u00a0 Fortunately, unlike Toyota and some other customers, they stopped short of requiring it of automotive suppliers.\u00a0 They then went on to discourage the use of OHSAS 18001<\/a> as a stand alone occupational health & safety management system (OHSMS)<\/a>.\u00a0 In the e-mail they state that the AIAG believes “that the management of health & safety under the BSI OHSAS 18001 program is good practice, but less efficient in terms of both cost and time, as compared to managing health & safety as part of an existing management system. This is fundamental to making safety and health integrated within existing management systems and part of the day-to-day business activities.”<\/em><\/p>\n

As odd as this may seem coming from me, I applaud the AIAG for formally taking this position.\u00a0 Those of you that have been following this blog and are familiar with my integrated management system philosophy<\/a> (or Lean BOS<\/a>)\u00a0 will note that I have been advocating an integrated approach for over a decade.\u00a0 It is commendable for the AIAG — a group that propagates and profits from standards and the associated training — to evolve to this level.<\/p>\n

Business excellence is more than the successful application of some standards.\u00a0 It is an organization’s business operating system<\/a>, leadership, and culture that creates success.\u00a0 As such, quality, environmental, health, and safety concerns must be managed concurrently with regulatory, customer, employee, and investor concerns.\u00a0 This cannot be done effectively and efficiently with multiple management systems.\u00a0 Kudos to the AIAG for recognizing this, at least when it comes to ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kirill Liberman, President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On February 24, 2009 the AIAG (Automotive Industry Action Group) issued a formal statement, e-mailed to all of its members, endorsing the implementation of a formal environmental management system (EMS)\u00a0 based on ISO 14001. \u00a0 Fortunately, unlike Toyota and some other customers, they stopped short of requiring it of automotive suppliers.\u00a0 They then went on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,122,6,9,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continual-improvement","category-environmental-management-system","category-iso14001","category-ohsas18001","category-pinnacle-enterprise-group","category-process-improvement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pinnacleeg.com\/iso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pinnacleeg.com\/iso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pinnacleeg.com\/iso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pinnacleeg.com\/iso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pinnacleeg.com\/iso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.pinnacleeg.com\/iso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"http:\/\/www.pinnacleeg.com\/iso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pinnacleeg.com\/iso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pinnacleeg.com\/iso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pinnacleeg.com\/iso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}