Sharjah 24: The Sharjah Finance Department (SFD) obtained the certificate of the international standard for the occupational health and safety management system - ISO 45001:2018 from the British Standards Institution (BSI) after fulfilling the requirements for obtaining the certificate and successfully passing the field audit operations and visits related to the standard, whose certificate falls within the integrated management system certificates.
In this context, Aisha Al Hosani, Director of the Support Services Department at the SFD, said that the department regularly seeks to translate its vision and goals aimed at achieving leadership and financial sustainability by enhancing the levels of quality and efficiency in its various administrative operations and procedures, in accordance with the best applied practices and the latest approved specifications, supported by various international administrative certificates.
Saeed Al Awani, Head of the Public Services Section at the department, confirmed that improving the level of occupational health and safety for employees and achieving a safe, healthy and sustainable work environment is consistent with the essence of the institutional values adopted by the department with regard to positivity, happiness and institutional loyalty, and implementing the requirements of the system documents the level of transparency and credibility with the rest of the other groups, from stakeholders in the department’s workplaces, such as suppliers, contractors, partners, and dealers.
Aisha Al Hosani praised the efforts of the relevant work team, that resulted in obtaining this certificate, which is considered one of the most important and famous quality certificates (ISO) at the global level, due to its importance and its connection to the health and safety of employees in the workplace, and thus reflects positively on society and the quality of performance in institutions.
The ISO 45001 specification provides a framework that includes guidelines, policies and procedures for occupational health and safety that can be used on all operations, activities and departments of the SFD to create a safe workplace culture that gives priority to the well-being of employees, indicating that the main purpose of the standard is to reduce safety problems and risks in the workplace to a minimum, as much as possible, and demonstrate leadership responsibility towards maintaining and keeping employees safe.
The senior leadership in the department is working to ensure the continued implementation of the specification standards to enhance safety levels and prevent accidents in the workplace, and to increase organisational flexibility through proactive prevention of risks and continuous improvement of occupational health and safety performance, as part of efforts to consolidate legal and regulatory compliance.
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