2. Safety and
occupational health
management
system:
The system of management of
safety and health at work is a tool
that allows you to develop in an
organized way, phases of plan, do,
check and Act, the safety and health
at work for any company within the
national territory, within the
framework of the compliance with
the current legal regulations.
3. the recognition of this system allows businesses to its
successful implementation, in order to develop
intervention measures to mitigate, control and
elimination of risks and dangers present in different
environments labour.
The implementation of the system of management of
safety and health at work addresses from the 1072
Decree of May 26, 2015, since this is the decree only
regulatory Sector labour which absorbed in Book2, part 2
Title 4, Chapter 6-the Decree 1443 2015
4. Corrective action: Act performed to
eliminate the cause of a detected
nonconformity or other undesirable situation.
Improvement action: Performance of
optimization to the OHSMS for
improvements, both in the performance of
the Organization on issues of safety and
health at work, consistent with its policy.
Preventive action: Action that eliminates or
mitigates the (s) cause (s) of a potential non-
conformity or other undesirable potential
situation.
Non-routine activity: Action that is not part
of the normal operation of the organization
or activity that the Organization has been
determined as "nonroutine" because of its
low frequency of execution.
5. Routine activity: Action that is part of the
normal operation of the Organization, has been
planned and is standardized.
Senior management: Person or group of
persons who direct and control a company.
Threat: Latent danger of a physical event of
natural, or caused or induced by accidental
human action, occurs with one severity
sufficient to cause loss of lives, injuries or other
impacts on health, as well as damages and
losses in the goods, infrastructure, services and
livelihoods, environmental resources.
Self-report of health and work: Process
whereby the worker or contractor reports in
writing to the employer or contracting
conditions adverse safety and
Health that identifies in his place of work.
6. Work: Any building or area open for an economic
activity in a given enterprise.
PHVA cycle: Logical and stepwise procedure that
allows the continuous improvement through the
following steps:
« » Planning (P): Procedure that allows you to
set is improve the safety and health of workers,
finding things that are being done incorrectly or
how can be optimised in its response action,
generating and pointing out ideas to solve those
problems.
« » Do (H): Implementation of the planned
measures.
» Verify (V): Check that procedures and actions
implemented are achieving the desired results.
» Act (A): Undertake improvement actions to
obtain the greatest benefits in the safety and
health of workers.
7. Health conditions: Set of variables that are
objective and auto - report of physiological,
psychological and sociocultural, conditions that
determine the socio-demographic profile and the
working population morbidity.
Conditions and environment of work: Those
elements, agents or factors that have significant
influence on the generation of risks to the safety
and health of workers.
Description demographic: Profile of the working
population, which includes the description of the
social and demographic of a group of workers,
such as: level of education, income, place of
residence, family size, status, socio-economic
stratum civil, race, occupation, area of work, age,
sex and work shift.
8. Effectiveness: Achievement of the objectives of
the system of management of safety and health
at work with maximum efficiency and maximum
efficiency.
Efficiency: Ability to achieve the effect that
expected or desired after the completion of an
action.
Efficiency: Relationship between the results
achieved and the resources used.
Emergency: Dangerous situation or its
imminence, that affects the normal functioning
of the company. It requires an immediate and
coordinated reaction of workers, brigades of
emergencies and first aid; in some cases, other
groups of support depending on their size.
9. Risk assessment: Process that allows you to
determine the level of risk associated with the
level of probability that the risk is realized, and
the level of severity of the consequences of
that realization.
Catastrophic event: Unexpected and
undesired event that significantly alters the
normal functioning of the company; implies
massive damage to the staff who works in
facilities, total paralysis of the activities of the
enterprise or a part of it and affects the chain
productive, or partial or total destruction of a
facility generates.
Hazard identification: Process to establish
whether there is a danger and define the
characteristics of this.
Structure indicators: Verifiable measures of
availability and access to resources, political
and organization with which the company has
to meet the demands and needs in safety and
health at work.
10. Non-compliance: Non-fulfilment of a requirement.
It may be a deviation from standards, practices,
procedures or applicable regulatory requirements,
among others.
Danger: Source, situation or event with the
potential to cause damage on the health of
workers, equipment or facilities.
Policy on safety and health at work: Commitment
of the senior management of an organization with
the safety and health at work, formally expressed
by defining its scope and that responsible for the
entire organization.
Register: Document which presents results
obtained or provides evidence of the performed
activities.
Accountability: Mechanism by means of which
individuals and institutions report on their
performance.
11. Risk: Combination of the probability of that occurring one
or more exhibitions or hazardous events, and the severity
of the damage that can be caused by these.
Safety and health at work: Safety and health at work
(SST) is the discipline dealing with the prevention of
injuries and diseases caused by the conditions of work,
and the protection and promotion of the health of
workers. It aims to improve the conditions and the
working environment as well as the health at work, which
involves the promotion and maintenance of the physical,
mental and social well-being of workers in all occupations.
Management system of safety and health at work:
Consists of the development of a logical process and by
stages, based on continuous improvement; includes
policy, organization, planning, implementation,
evaluation, audit and actions for improvement, with the
aim of anticipating, recognizing, evaluating and control
risks that may affect the safety and health in the
workplace.
Risk assessment: Consists of a judgment on the tolerance
or not of the estimated risk.
12. OHSAS 18001
and 18000
An integrated system of
management (GIS) aims to achieve
an organization to ensure the
health and safety of its employees
and the protection of the
environment, increasing
productivity and the quality of its
operations.
13. One of the keys to achieving this objective is the
management of the occupational health and
safety (SySO), aspect which is responsible for the
family of international standards OHSAS 18000.
OHSAS stands for Occupational Health and Safety
Assessment Series, and within the standard always
refers to OH & S Occupational Health and Safety,
which in Spanish is often called as SySO health and
safety Occupational or SyST health and safety at
work. (NTC - OHSAS 18001, 2007).
14. The standard that establishes the requirements for
this kind of systems is the OHSAS 18001, whose
current latest revision dates back to the year 2008,
and comes to the following key areas:
Planning to identify, assess and control risks
OHSAS management program
Structure and responsibility
Training, awareness and competence
Consulting and communication
Operating control
Preparedness and emergency response
Measuring, monitoring and improving
performance
15. Cycle PDCA in OHSAS 18000
Like other international standards, this OHSAS standard is based on the methodology known as plan-
do - Check-Act (PDCA) or plan-do-check-Act (PDCA).
16. Briefly, this PDCA cycle or PDCA can be described as:
Plan (Plan): establish the objectives and processes
necessary to achieve results according to the policy
of the Organization SySO.
Do (Do): implement processes
Check (Check): carry out the monitoring and
measurement of processes regarding the policy of
SySO, objectives, goals and the legal requirements
and other requirements, and report the results.
Act (Act): take actions to continually improve the
performance of the system of management of the
SySO. (NTC - OHSAS 18001, 2007).
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