OHSIS on Knowledge Workspace
One-stop occupational health and safety information for the UK and Ireland. Organizing and updating pertinent occupational health and safety information is essential to keep up with new regulations. The Occupational Health and Safety Information Service (OHSIS) sends you the latest occupational health and safety information from more than 500 publishing organizations. This online tool contains official guidance, legislation, best practice and standards for the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Get relevant compliance data straight to your desktop.
OHSIS is for you if you want to:
- Increase employee and environmental protection
- Minimize illness and injury losses
- Improve productivity
- Mitigate environmental impacts
Find answers quickly and accurately
OHSIS is offered through the Knowledge Workspace platform, a breakthrough solution that overlays current documents covering legislation, regulations, guidance, standards, and best practices with analytical problem-solving capabilities. It lets you quickly surface precise answers amongst disparate data and accelerate decision-making. Incorporating groundbreaking search capabilities that connect professionals with the must-have content they need to make decisions, the intelligent Knowledge Workspace interface enables users to:
- Manage and track health, safety and environment information using the Watchlist functionality and allow users to create a legal register
- Bookmark important health and safety documents for future reference
- Create project teams and libraries of content to collaborate with other users across your firm
- Manage your own personal workspace and preferences for tracking, saving searches, bookmarking, and annotating digital documents
- Discover knowledge through textual or graphical exploration
- Create links to entire documents, specific pages, or specific sections within a document with the Get Link feature
Features
- Real-time alerts
- OHSIS NewsBriefs, documents, events
- Guides, toolbox talks, summaries, checklists and slides
- Intuitive search
- Legislation Watch change notifications
- CPD-accredited, free online training
Topics
- Fire safety
- Offshore safety
- Risk assessment
- Manual and mechanical hazards and control
- Food and drink safety
- Environmental health
- Control principals
- Work equipment hazards
- And more
Data Sources
- Health - Safety Executive (HSE)
- British Standards Institute (BSI)
- Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH)
- Food Standards Agency (FSA)
- Environment Agency
- Building Research Establishment (BRE)
- Chemical Industries Association
- Fire Protection Association (FPA)
- And more