Integrated Management Systems
The individual Management Systems for Quality, Environment and Health and Safety share many requirements and common elements.
Integration will remove areas of waste, duplication, conflict and other non-value adding activities.
Systems integration will result in both risk and cost reductions and more balanced business improvement activities.
What is PAS 99 (2006)
PAS 99 is a Publicly Available Specification of common requirements for management systems that can be used as a framework for an integrated management system.
Management system standards have been produced to address a variety of company needs. The structure and content of these new standards are now very similar, often incorporating common elements such as control of documents and records, internal audit, corrective and preventive action, management review and continual improvement. The Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) cycle, popularised by Deming has become the foundation for many of these new standards.
PAS 99 has been produced to encourage organizations with more than one management system to achieve a single holistic management system to enable them to run their operations more effectively.
PAS 99 takes account of the six common requirements for management systems:
- Policy
- Planning
- Implementation & Operation
- Performance Assessment
- Improvement
- Management Review
The adoption of PAS 99 should considerably simplify the process of assessment by both internal and external parties and allow organizations to reap huge internal benefits.
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