OHSIS: Occupational Health & Safety Information Service

The Occupational Health and Safety Information Service (OHSIS) provides its users with tools to manage and reduce organisational burdens from safety, health and environmental issues in order to meet corporate social responsibilities (CSR).

OHSIS enables an organisation to:

• Comply with relevant S,H&E regulations
• Protect employees, other stakeholders and the environment
• Minimise the risk of brand degradation
• Reduce operating cost, including days lost due to illness and injury
• Improve productivity
• Prevent and mitigate environmental impact

OHSIS delivers supplemental information, providing you with topical data.

• Environmental health
• Fire safety
• Food & drink safety
• Environmental management
• Fire Protection Association (FPA)
• Offshore safety
• British standards
• Republic of Ireland

Who Uses OHSIS:

• Safety, health & environmental directors (facility, division and corporate)
• Health & safety managers/officers
• Facilities managers
• Quality managers

Benefits:

• Single source of safety, health & environment information
• Relevant publications from comprehensive online library
• Intuitive and user preference driven search engine

OHSIS provides the latest occupational health and safety information, regulations, legislation, best practices and guidance.

The service offers supplements, addressing environmental health, fire safety, environmental management, food & drink safety and other topical issues.

Updated daily, OHSIS delivers this information in PDF format direct to your desktop, leveraging the world's best and most reliable sources. A subscription to OHSIS provides you with access to full-text reference documents for compliance with, and enforcement of, occupational health and safety regulations.

Topics include:

• Risk assessment
• Control principles
• Manual and mechanical handling hazards and control
• Work equipment hazards
• Electrical hazards
• Chemical and biological health hazards
• Construction activities
• Incident investigation / recording / reporting

UK and international sources for this service include:

• Health & Safety Executive
• British Occupational Health Research Foundation
• Chemical Industries Association
• Department of Health & Social Security
• European Commission
• NHS Health Development Agency
• World Health Organisation
• and many others

Also available is a Republic of Ireland focused product. The National Irish Safety Organisation (NISO) in conjunction with IHS has designed an information service specifically for health and safety professionals in Ireland. The Irish Health and Safety Information Service (IHSIS) offers comprehensive coverage of all the documents relevant to Ireland. Based on the same design and principle of OHSIS, we are able to offer an Irish focused product for organizations based and working in Ireland.

In addition to the comprehensive content that is available through OHSIS, the service also offer key features to make users’ navigation easier and stress free. Features include:

• Legislation Watch provides horizon scanning for regulatory changes
• E-mail alerts pro-actively highlight the most significant document arrivals into the product
• Over 30 health & safety guides and toolbox talks, developed by our partners, providing easy to understand summaries on key subject areas, compliance checklists and slides, which you can use in presentations
• NewsBrief delivers the latest industry news and hot topics. This regular briefing service will update you on important news, key published documents, a list of significant documents that have been included in the product and an IHS and industry events calendar.

• Perry Scott Nash (content editors)
• Sheila Pantry Associates
• Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH)
• Fire Protection Association (FPA)

Please feel free to download any of our OHSIS Brochure: (Opens in new window)

• OHSIS Brochure