Workplace Safety and Health - WSH Policy and Objectives Review Process

Establish regular and effective WSH review process of WSH policy and

objectives

Processes to review changes to organization WSH policy and objectives shall be carried out by the top management at regular intervals that it determines.

Relevant stakeholders such as the employees, Union, Suppliers, Contractors

and Shareholders should be included in the review processes. The WSH policy

review processes may include the following:

• Review meeting by top management

• Focus on overall performance in WSH rather than specific details

• Address subjects of

-Suitability of current WSH policy

-Setting or updating of WSH objectives of continual improvement in the

coming period

-Adequacy of current hazard identification, risk assessment and risk

control processes

-Current level of risk and effectiveness of existing control measures

-Adequacy of resources ( financial, personnel, materials)

-Effectiveness of WSH inspection and hazard reporting processes

-Accident and incident statistics

-Result of any accident and incident investigation

-Internal and external audit results

-State of emergency preparedness

-Improvement on WSH management system

-Assessment of effects of foreseeable change to legislation or technology

Importance of relevant stakeholders involvement in the review

Stakeholder’s involvement in the WSH policy review processes is important as

it can leads to the achievement of the following:

• Establishment of more balanced WSH policy and objectives, with

consideration of the stakeholder’s interests.

• Setting of realistic and achievable WSH policy and objectives

• Easier to obtain the stakeholder’s support during the implementation

stage

Methods of gaining stakeholders involvement

Organization may employ either one of the following methods to help them gain the stakeholders involvement in the WSH policy and review processes

• WSH committee meetings

• Interested parties feedback sessions

• Small group meetings

• One-on-one discussions

• Email and telephone calls with interested parties

• Surveys

Facilitation of WSH policy and objectives reviewing process

Organization shall facilitate the review of the WSH policy and objectives process in accordance with it’s organizational procedures and one of the roles of a WSH officer is to facilitate WSH policy and objective reviewing process which may include the following:

• Define the schedule and subjects to be reviewed and obtain management

consent

• Determine the attendees to the management review

• Determine roles and responsibilities of individual participants of the review

• Identify resources needed to organize an review

• Make logistic arrangements

• Collect and collate data and information to be presented during the review

• Organize the data into user-friendly information including charting,

trending, tabulation of data

• Take minutes of review meeting