CSA has developed Canada's first consensus based standard on Occupational Health and Safety Management. CSA Z1000-2006. This standard sets out the framework for an OH&S program that aligns with ISO 14001 and follows the recognized principles plan-do-check-improve.

The Z1000 Standard, which was developed with the participation of organized labour, provides organizations with a model for developing and implementing an OHSMS. The standard encourages a more systematic approach to meeting defined occupational health and safety objectives and increases awareness of health and safety in the workplace.

This is the first edition of CSA Z1000, Occupational health and safety management.

1 Scope

1.1 This Standard specifies requirements for an occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS). This Standard is applicable to an organization of any size or type. This Standard is intended to address occupational health and safety. It is not intended to address product and services safety.

1.2 In CSA Standards, "shall" is used to express a requirement, i.e., a provision that the user is obliged to satisfy in order to comply with the standard; "should" is used to express a recommendation or that which is advised but not required; "may" is used to express an option or that which is permissible within the limits of the standard; and "can" is used to express possibility or capability. Notes accompanying clauses do not include requirements or alternative requirements; the purpose of a note accompanying a clause is to separate from the text explanatory or informative material. Notes to tables and figures are considered part of the table or figure and may be written as requirements. Annexes are designated normative (mandatory) or informative (non-mandatory) to define their application.

NOTES REGARDING "SMART" CD-ROM:

The CSA Z1000-06 Smart CD-ROM is an electronic version of the CSA Z1000-06 Occupational Health and Safety Management Standard. It's organized according to a popular management system of "Plan-Do-Check-Act" methodology that easily guides the user through each phase for easy implementation of the CSA Z1000-06 Standard.

The CSA Z1000-06 Smart CD-ROM contains convenient and dynamic hyperlinks allowing you to quickly view informative guidance material and clauses referenced throughout the standard by a "click of the mouse" combined with a powerful search function so you can find any word or phrase within the Standard quickly and easily.

Instructional Modules are specifically designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the CSA Z1000-06 Standard components and are conveniently created in Microsoft® PowerPoint allowing them to be used as they are, or customized for your own presentation for management and staff.

Instructional Module topics included on the Smart CD-ROM are:

* What is an Occupational Health & Safety Management System?

* Why Implement OHSMS?

* OHS Legislation & Due Diligence Overview

* Elements of CSA Z1000-06 & Organizational Integration

* Commitment & Leadership plus Worker Participation

* CSA Z1000-06 and Regulatory Compliance

* Hazard & Risk Identification Assessment

* OHSMS Planning Process

* Monitoring and Measurement

* Preventive and Protective Measures

* Competence & Training

The Smart CD-ROM features a thorough Readiness Assessment Checklist contains over 250 questions to quickly help you determine your current level of compliance and automatically generates a Readiness Review Report in Microsoft® Word identifying your deficiencies.

Simple and easy to use form templates for reports required to comply with CSA Z1000-06 Standard include explanations for straightforward completion along with convenient hyperlinks to clauses referenced in the Standard for more information. The form templates can be saved and edited or the report can be automatically generated in Microsoft® Word format.

Form templates for the following OHS reports are included on the Smart CD-ROM:

* OHS Policy Development

* OHS Roles & Responsibilities

* OHS Objectives & Targets

* OHSMS Management Review Results

* Action Plan

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Recommended

- Windows® XP or better

- Microsoft® Internet Explorer

- Microsoft® Word

- Microsoft® Power Point

- Pentium II or better IBM compatible computer with

64+ MB of memory

- 4X CD-ROM

- SVGA Card

- 60 MB of free hard disk space which may vary depending on the number of documents saved

Minimum Requirements

- Windows® 2000 or better

- Pentium-Based IBM compatible computer with 32 MB of memory