Integrated Management Systems

Companies are now faced with various and separate management systems to manage the different aspects of their business, such as quality (ISO 9001), environment (ISO 14001), health and safety (OHSAS 18001), information security (ISO 17799), and food safety (ISO 22000), as well as systems not based on standards. To maintain these separate systems costs both time and money and there is a strong business case for integrating them into one overarching management framework.David Smith and Rob Politowski show the reader how such a system can be developed and how existing systems can be accommodated efficiently and effectively. After a general section about management systems and their common components, each system and how it can be integrated is analysed in detail. How to manage the manual as well as monitoring and auditing is covered as well.Each chapter starts with an executive summary, then gives an in-depth overview of the principles, before covering the technical details of developing a system beyond compliance. The text is also supported by an ongoing case study.David Smith and Rob Politowski run IMS Risk Solutions, a consultancy for risk management for Health, Safety, Environment, and Governance. They have been involved with standards development for BSI and ISO.