Where to place our Safety Program in our QMS?

• Management Commitment – Executives should be committed to guaranteeing the production of quality and safe products and services.
• Continuous Improvement – Organisations should regularly assess the effectiveness of the Quality Management System and their health and safety hazard controls.
• Communication – There should be a unified program to communicate policies and objectives across all organization levels.

bryan willemot said:

In clause 6.4 of ISO 9001, organisations must identify and manage the work environment required to produce quality products and services. Physical factors such as hygiene, noise, and human factors such as employee supervision are some of the areas to be considered.

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Quality_Goblin said:

My question is - what section of the standard should we place our Safety Program documents? Initially I was thinking 7.2 Qualification and Awareness. Or should it be in 7.1.3 Maintenance and Infrastructure?

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Randy said:

No don't do any of it...........Documents would need to be controlled and that's under 7.5.

But why are you putting it into your Quality Program? If anything it would be complimentary to 7.1.4 Environment for the operation of processes..........BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOO! Just look at the attached to help you out..........However if you are in South Carolina you'd better have a Safety Program in place yesterday meeting 29CFR 1910 General Industry

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Quality_Goblin said:

I am just going off what my CQO wants. And we have two facilities - one in California, one in North Carolina

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Randy said:

If you're going to help please use a correct reference.....There is no 6.4 in ISO 9001, so no it doesn't help

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bryan willemot said:

My bad I was looking in my quality manual. I guess its ok when the "super Moderator" puts an extra 0 in his statement... so forget my 6.4 reference.

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