Continual Improvement with Integrated Management System

Management Systems are powerful tools for businesses to manage quality , environmental and occupational health and safety requirements . where once these systems were considered as stand alone control mechanisms , industry is now opting to increase the efficiency of these documented systems through a more integrated approach . System integration offers a significant step forward, where there are similarities between system components , reducing duplication and adminstration costs and increasing efficiency . At first , this paper reviews integrated management system structure and its benefits. The second part of this paper focuses on the one example implementation of such a system at Imam Khomeini Hospital and in final part of the paper will be discuss outcomes of that proccess .

Authors:

• Sharareh Mirsaeidi Farahani
• Gholamreza Chitsaz

Keywords:

• environmental management
• Integratedmanagement systems
• occupational healt and safetymanagement
• quality management.

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