Goodyear Dunlop Achieves OHSAS Certification for Midlands Sites

Goodyear Dunlop reports achieving a milestone within its health and safety management. The company has been externally audited by BSI and can officially confirm it has achieved certification to OHSAS (Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series) 18001 – one of the key Health and Safety Management Systems in the industry.

OHSAS 18001 was created from a number of the world’s leading national standards bodies, certification bodies, and specialist consultancies to establish an occupational health and safety management system. OHSAS18001 also ensures the company is legally compliant with its major focus being on continual improvement.  The system has been created to eliminate or minimise risk to employees, contractors and visitors who may be exposed to health and safety risks within the workplace.  

This certification has been granted for oGoodyear Dunlop’s manufacturing sites in Wolverhampton and Birmingham. To achieve this award, the manufacturing sites were required to focus and commit to a number of health and safety measures which are set out within the standard. Achieving the certification has challenged the culture within the company as it has involved all employees buying in to 18001 to ensure the manufacturing sites fully comply with the regulations set out by the standard.

“Gaining the certification has been a real team effort. Health and Safety is everyone’s responsibility and for the auditing company BSI to award us OHSAS 18001 is testament to the outstanding commitment of our employees on both sites,” said John Frazer, OHSAS 18001 coordinator for Goodyear Dunlop. “The support from the manufacturing team, as a whole, has been nothing short of magnificent from all areas of the business.

“At Goodyear Dunlop our global safety message is ‘No one gets hurt’ and by achieving OHSAS 18001 we are continuing to raise the bar,” he added. “Although we have now achieved this award this is just the beginning and we need to ensure that the hard work continues as maintaining the standard will need just as much commitment and hard work as the initial certification.”