ILO-OSH 2001 Guidelines on Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems 3.16: Arrangements for continual improvement of each element and the system as a whole, drawing on objectives, hazard and risk assessments, monitoring results, investigations and audit recommendations, management review outcomes, improvement suggestions from all members including the committee, changes in law, voluntary programmes and collective agreements, new information and the results of health protection and promotion programmes; compare safety and health processes and performance with other organisations

What does 3.16 require?

Arrangements for continual improvement of each relevant element and of the system as a whole are set up and maintained. They draw on the organisation's OSH objectives; the results of hazard and risk identification and assessment; performance monitoring and measurement; investigations of harm and incidents together with audit results and recommendations; management review outcomes; improvement suggestions from every member of the organisation and from the safety and health committee where it exists; changes in national law, voluntary programmes and collective agreements; new relevant information; and the results of health protection and promotion programmes. The organisation also compares its safety and health processes and performance with other organisations' in order to improve.