These standards concern the mechanisms in place to ensure the safety of employees working in a factory and to minimize the environmental affect of said factory. The certification process involves rigorous assessments and perpetual reviews, as well as extensive documentation of the processes you have in place to ensure safety and effective environmental awareness.

The processes necessary to meet these certification requirements are strikingly similar. At their core, these standards are practically indistinguishable; they both require similar documentation and processes. Because of this, one well designed product can help you to meet your regulatory requirements for both standards.

Unfortunately, this product would also have to account for the differences. Some of the major differences between these standards include: employee engagement, the risk reduction hierarchy of 18001, the differing intents, and the implementation of the processes. Without accounting for these differences, a company can not qualify for either of these important certifications.

This is where our Factory Solutions Software is effective. We designed this software to be an all encompassing program to keep your factory compliant in a number of different ways, including a number of key OSHA regulations and OHSAS 18001 and ISO 14000. With our software, you can set your processes, track your changes and evaluations, and ensure employee participation. Our software is all browser based, and can be incorporated with our other services.

We at PFSafety take safety seriously, if you should have any questions about these or any other standards, please contact us. And if you have anything else to add to our brief discussion of these standards, please leave a comment.