The Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC is working with key stakeholders across Canada to establish a nationally recognized occupational health and safety management system audit standard for manufacturing.
This new health and safety system benchmark will meet or exceed the requirements for COR across Canada, ISO 45001, and will integrate other best practices, such as psychological health and safety.
Developing a single, harmonized audit standard that meets and exceeds jurisdictional standards AND ISO 45001 will offer many benefits to employers—particularly to those that operate facilities in multiple provinces.
Such a standard will allow companies to achieve excellence in their health and safety programs to protect workers—with confidence that their program will meet or exceed OHS benchmarks wherever they operate their business.
The National OHSMS Standard will support manufacturing employers with:
The over-arching objective of this inter-provincial project is to develop a national, harmonized audit standard for Canada’s manufacturing sector that is a recognized health and safety system benchmark.
Goals of this project are:
The Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC has partnered with occupational health and safety associations that administer COR audit programs for the manufacturing sector across Canada, working together towards a shared goal of a harmonized national audit standard.