ISO 99999 for the Management of Honesty
and Transparency, an absolute utopia?
In March
2018 the ISO 45001 Standard was issued, a new standard for Safety and Health at
Work Management Systems, which replaced OHSAS 18001. This standard provides the
mechanism for the management of Health and Safety risks and improvement the
forecast in the area. The OHSAS 18001 standard will cease to be valid 3 years
later, in March 2021. The OHSAS 18001 standard has been a good reference for
the development of the new ISO 45001. It is important to remember that every
day in the world 7600 people die due to work accidents , without counting the
cases that occur in informality.
The benefits
of ISO 45001 are clear:
Protection
of workers, for the obligation to maintain a healthier and safer work
environment, reduce the number of accidents and health problems produced in the
workplace. This approach should help reduce injuries and sick leave for
employees.
Reduction of
risks, because it helps to express risks in appropriate action plans for
evaluation, verification, inspection, legal review and accident investigation.
Legal
compliance. It provides the mechanism for the identification of the current
legislation and the implementation of the applicable requirements. In this way,
complaints are reduced, financial consequences are avoided.
Base of the
Management System. This standard is aligned with other ISO standards such as
the ISO 9001: 2015 and ISO 14001: 2015 standards, already revised and that have
a common structure.
Responsibility.
The certification shows the interested parties the responsibility and
commitment of the company in matters of Health and Safety at work.
The ISO
9001: 2015 standard elaborated by the International Organization for
Standardization (ISO), determines the requirements for a Quality Management
System, which can be used for internal application by organizations, without
Import if the product and / or service is provided by a public organization or
private company, whatever its branch, for its certification or for contractual
purposes.
The
International Organization for Standardization is an independent,
non-governmental organization that includes more than one million companies and
organizations in 170 member countries. The ISO was created after the Second
World War, in February 1947, in England with delegates from 25 countries to
coordinate and unify world standards.
ISO 9001
contains the requirements of the management model. ISO 9004 extends the content
of ISO 9001; ISO 9011 details the requirements for conducting audits of an ISO
9001 management system and also for the environmental management system of ISO
14001.
The quality
of processes, environmental management and the care of the health and safety of
workers are important factors that affect the success of companies and
organizations. But are not ethical, moral, honesty and transparency factors
also? An organization where there is honesty and transparency has a better
image and acceptance of internal and external stakeholders. Why is not this
management promoted? Perhaps there are too many interests against its
application, perhaps more in organizations (especially public or state) the
impulse for corruption rather than probity.
It is an
idea perhaps crazy, but if it were created, some changes would have at least in
private companies, since, in public, the absence or presence of standards of
transparency and honesty are simpe utopias, impossible absolute.
References
ISO 45001, ISO 45001 Webinar
ISO 9001
