Cluster Modeling of Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems for Integration Support

Alena Pauliková; Jana Chovancová; Jarmila Blahová

doi:10.3390/ijerph19116588

Cluster Modeling of Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems for Integration Support

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 May 28;19(11):6588. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19116588.

Authors

Alena Pauliková¹, Jana Chovancová², Jarmila Blahová¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Industrial Engineering and Management, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Jána Bottu 25, 917 24 Trnava, Slovakia.
² Department of Management, Faculty of Management and Business, University of Prešov in Prešov, Konštantínova 16, 080 01 Prešov, Slovakia.

Abstract

Many organizations around the world recognize the complementarity of public and environmental health and focus their attention on the effective management of both health and environmental risks. For this purpose, they often use the international standards ISO 14001 and ISO 45001. However, when a company intends to implement multiple standards simultaneously, the challenge of overlapping increases. Therefore, the objective of article is to analyze the requirements and documented information of two management system standards: environmental management systems (EMS), according to ISO 14001, and occupational health and safety management systems (OH&S), according to ISO 45001. A combination of content analysis and clustering methods was used to conduct the research. Visualization of the interrelationships between the requirements of the standards was done using TouchGraph Navigator. The outputs of the analysis can serve managers in the integrated implementation of these management systems as well as auditors during the review and check process when formulating recommendations for the improvement of management systems. Integrated implementation comes with multiple benefits, including reduced bureaucracy and management costs, a simplified certification process, improved internal management, and facilitation of continuous improvement.

Keywords: EMS; IMS; OH&S; OHSMS; cluster; documented information; environment; management systems; occupational health and safety; requirements; visualization.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Certification
Environmental Health
Management Information Systems*
Occupational Health*
Safety Management

Grants and funding

This research was funded by the Cultural and Educational Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Slovak Republic as a part of project No. KEGA 031STU-4/2020 “Network visualization of common and specific elements and documented information of integrated management systems with respect to relevant ISO standards”.