Occupational health and safety (OHS - also known as EHS, SHE) is a cross-disciplinary function concerned with the safety, health and welfare of people working/employed.

The general objective of all OHS programmes is to encourage and ensure a safe work environment. In addition, it should protect co-workers, family members, employers, customers, suppliers, nearby communities, and other members of the public who are impacted by the work environment.

Dynamics Ax OHS

An explicit goal of Ax OHS is to enable safety personnel to manage the health and safety of employees effectively. Better incident reports, accident investigations and safety inspections will improve an enterprise's prevention measures. Using Ax OHS to computerise health and safety functions will allow an enterprise to formalise safety. Increased management involvement and control will result in fewer accidents and injuries to employees.

Our health and safety module was created to strengthen and expand the accident prevention capabilities of safety personnel.

Ax OHS includes, among others, incident reporting, investigation management, permits to work, PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) management, and scheduled inspections.

Finally, Ax OHS also includes risk management and assessment tools. This sub module assists in the identification of risks associated with operations. Risks are rated according to a range of classes, for example Health and Safety, Environment, Legal, Finance, Social, and Community. These risks can be mitigated by associating, on the one hand, the identified risk with the controls that would reduce the risk, and, on the other hand, the necessary action when dealing with the consequences of an event during operation. These are known as the Bow Tie Principles.

It follows then that OHS is a technical field that applies several disciplines for the continuous improvement of risk management associated with Occupational Health, Safety, Environment, and Quality. Continuous improvement is facilitated by developing processes or procedures that will help move programmes through the formal cycle.

Although the management of OHS was often treated as independent functions within organisations, many now look at ways to integrate legacy systems to uniformly manage overall business risk. Dynamics OHS goes a long way in achieving this.