Courtesy: ISO 21101:2014 Adventure tourism safety management Implications A SMS is intended to act as a business administration structure for an organization to effectively meet its legal obligations under applicable occupational safety and health laws. The scope of the organization’s operations and therefore its risk profile will determine how the SMS is structured and what resources are required to […]
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Courtesy: ISO 21101:2014 Adventure tourism safety management As research into occupational medicine improved, it had become possible to start to identify industrial diseases and illnesses caused by exposure to industry specific hazards such as coal dust in mining (miners black lung or Coalworker’s pneumoconiosis), asbestos in construction (asbestosis and mesothelioma), exposure to physical agents such as occupational noise from industrial machinery (hearing loss, tinnitus or deafness) […]
Courtesy: ISO 21101:2014 Adventure tourism safety management Safety management evolved as a counterweight to the exploitation of workers in industry through the 19th and 20th centuries. As the industrial revolution opened up substantial commercial opportunities in Western societies, the financial imperative of business owners and industrialists lead to the use of an exploited, unskilled and […]
Courtesy: ISO 21101:2014 Adventure tourism safety management There are three imperatives for adopting a safety management system for a business – these are ethical, legal and financial. There is an implied moral obligation placed upon an employer to ensure that work activities and the place of work are safe; there are legislative requirements defined in […]
Courtesy: ISO 21101:2014 Adventure tourism safety management ISO 21101:2014 outlines the requirements of a safety management system for adventure tourism activity providers. A provider can use ISO 21101:2014 for the following: to enhance safety performance; to meet expectations for participant and staff safety; to demonstrate safe practice; to support compliance with applicable legal requirements. ISO […]