مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد سیستم مدیریت یکپارچه برای سلامتی و ایمنی شغلی در نیروگاه هسته ای – الزویر 2018

In order to implement the integration management of the occupational health and safety and environment (OHSE) in an operating nuclear power plant (ONPP) in East China and help it pass the OHSAS 18001 and ISO 14001 certifications simultaneously rather than separately, an integrated management system (IMS) for OHSE in the ONPP consisting of the occupational health and safety and environment management manual (OHSEMM) and its supportive documents was established to cover the OHSAS 18001 and ISO 14001 standards and IAEA’s safety standards on management systems. The management information system for the IMS for the ONPP in East China (MISIMSONPPEC) consisting of the core zone, which includes the information-sharing platform (ISP) and the functional management system (FMS), client and background system was designed for the first time by using browser/server (B/S) structure to overcome the difficulties in implementing the IMS. The applications of the MISIMSONPPEC in the ONPP show that it helped to share and statistically analyze the OHSE data and information from the IMS, to improve the cooperation between departments, to enhance the efficiency of management, and to pass the OHSAS 18001 and ISO 14001 certifications simultaneously rather than separately; and it helped accomplish the integration management of the OHSE in the ONPP.

Introduction

The Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series (OHSAS) 18001 standard has widely been used by companies to establish the occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS) as a management tool to control occupational risks and ensure safety (BSI, 2007; Mohammadfam et al., 2016; Simon et al., 2012; Jespersen et al., 2016; Abad et al., 2013; Segarra Cañamares et al., 2017). In the meantime, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14001 standard has also widely been used by companies to establish the environmental management system (EMS) as a management tool to control and reduce their impacts on environment (ISO, 2015; Govindan et al., 2015; Oliveira et al., 2010; Oliveira and Serra Pinheiro, 2009; Fernández-Muñiz et al., 2012; Granly et al., 2014; Su et al., 2015). The implementation of OHSAS 18001 OHSMS has produced benefits such as improving communication with workers about the risks and hazards internally, ameliorating the working risks, making the workplaces healthy and safe, and establishing a positive safety culture so as to achieve a better occupational health and safety performance (Santos et al., 2013; Blewett and O’Keeffe, 2011; Ghahramani, 2016). The implementation of the ISO 14001 EMS has also produced benefits including preventing pollution and reducing waste, enhancing both environmental and companies’ performances in terms of environmental impact reduction, environmental pollution prevention and ecological efficiency improvement, generating the competitive advantages, and promoting companies’ value (Oliveira et al., 2016; Badri et al., 2012; Rino et al., 2017; Mazzi et al., 2016; Ferrón-Vílchez, 2016). Consequently, many companies in the world are using the OHSAS 18001 OHSMS and ISO 14001 EMS separately to achieve the OHSAS 18001 and the ISO 14001 certifications (Bernardo, 2014; Simon et al., 2011). However, more and more companies have also found that using the OHSAS 18001 OHSMS and ISO 14001 EMS separately often results in counterproductive consequence, low efficiency and effectiveness, high cost and unnecessary bureaucracy (Oliveira, 2013; Nunhes et al., 2016). As a result, considering that the OHSAS 18001 and ISO 14001 standards are similar in structure and contents and have the common elements including policy, roles, responsibilities and authorities, planning, objectives, resources, communication, documentation, operation, emergency preparedness and response, performance, internal audit, management review, monitoring, measurement, and corrective and preventive actions, there has been a tendency to establish and implement an integrated management system (IMS) to cover the OHSAS 18001 and ISO 14001 standards (Hamidi et al., 2012; Rebelo et al., 2014; Karapetrovic and Casadesús, 2009).