OREANDA-NEWS. The Gazprom Management Committee took notice of the information about the compliance of its Unified System for Managing Labor and Industrial Safety with the OHSAS 18001:2007 international standard.

The Unified System secures comprehensive activities aimed at establishing safe and healthy working conditions for the Company’s employees.

The conformance to OHSAS 18001:2007 means that Gazprom’s system managing labor and industrial safety at production, transmission and processing facilities fully complies with the international standards.

Background

OHSAS 18001 is an internationally accepted standard for occupational health and safety systems. Its main objective is to enable any organization create a sound occupational health and safety management system.

The Unified System for Managing Labor and Industrial Safety was certified following the audit results by the Russian Register certification association which partners with the IQNet international network of partner certification bodies.

IQNet international certification network (headquartered in Bern) is a non-governmental non-profit organization comprising 40 leading certification bodies from 33 countries worldwide.