Quality assessment of the occupational safety management system processes according to the requirements of the ISO 45001:2018 international standard

Abstract

https://doi.org/10.32820/2079-1747-2022-29-89-96

An analysis of the requirements of the ISO 45001:2018 international standard was carried
out for the need for monitoring, measuring and analysing process quality indicators, as a result of
which it is clear that the effectiveness of the development and implementation of the occupational
health and safety management system depends on the quality assessment methodology. An analysis
of existing research and publications on the evaluation of processes, including those related to
occupational safety in production, an analysis of evaluation methods or qualitative methods, and an
analysis of statistical methods of evaluation of measurement results were carried out. An algorithm for monitoring, measuring and evaluating processes is proposed, which can serve as a standard
regulatory document for the implementation of a health and safety management system in
accordance with the requirements of the DSTU ISO 45001:2019 standard. At the first stage of the
algorithm, the main criteria are defined, according to which this or that process will be evaluated.
At the second stage, the selection of measuring equipment, justification of the intensity of control
operations, and processing of measurement results are carried out, etc., for the solution of which
scientific and technical justification of the choice of certain procedures is required. Also, at the
second stage, it is proposed to convert the various process quality indicators into a dimensionless
value. To obtain estimates of process quality indicators, it is proposed to apply the error function,
which meets the requirements for quality indicators and allows obtaining estimates on a
dimensionless scale, which makes it possible to obtain and increase the amount of statistical
information. Depending on the availability of statistical information on process quality assessments,
namely, on its quantity, it becomes possible to choose one or another mathematical apparatus for
effective monitoring, assessment and management of occupational safety in production.