COMPARISON OF AIHA ISO 9001-BASED OCCUPATIONAL-HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT-SYSTEM GUIDANCE DOCUMENT WITH A MANUFACTURERS OCCUPATIONAL-HEALTH AND SAFETY ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT

Numerous manufacturing and service organizations have integrated or ar e considering integration of their respective occupational health and safety management and audit systems into the International Organizatio n for Standardization-based (ISO) audit-driven Quality Management Syst ems (ISO 9000) or Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14000) models. Companies considering one of these options will likely need to identi fy and evaluate several key factors before embarking on such efforts. The purpose of this article is to identify and address the key factors through a case study approach. Qualitative and quantitative compariso ns of the key features of the American Industrial Hygiene Association ISO-9001 harmonized Occupational Health and Safety Management System w ith The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. management and audit system were co nducted. The comparisons showed that the two management systems and th eir respective audit protocols, although structured differently, were not substantially statistically dissimilar in content. The authors rec ommend that future studies continue to evaluate the advantages and dis advantages of various audit protocols. Ideally, these studies would id entify those audit outcome measures that can be reliably correlated wi th health and safety performance.