ABSTRACT
The evolution of the current industrial context and the increasing of the competition pressure, led the companies to adopt new concepts of management. That’s why the implementation and certification of quality (ISO9001 2008), environmental (ISO14001 2004) and occupational health and safety (OHSAS18001 2000) systems have been an important activity for many organizations and have become a widespread phenomenon around the world. The major problem with these three management systems is that they were proposed separately and thus their combination is not an obvious task since they have common and confused procedures. Generally, parallel management systems are used, leading to separate and independent implementations of each system. Such implementations suffer from several weaknesses since they require many duplicate management tasks, such as written procedures, checking, control forms and other paper work suggested by the three standards. Hence, proposing an integrated management system (IMS) including quality, environment and safety management systems also known as QSE management system have drawn the attention of both academics and practitioners. These researches studied the integration of the three systems from various viewpoints, includ ing examining the possibility of integrating, analyzing the potential
benefits of it and exploring possible ways and criteria for its success (Labodova 2004) (Jorgensen et al. 2006) (Zeng et al. 2007) (Jorgensen 2008). Nevertheless, a few studies have developed methodologies and approaches to implement an IMS. Recently, we have proposed a new process-based approach to implement an IMS, on the basis of three aspects used as integrated factors namely the process approach, the risk management and a global monitoring system (Badreddine et al. 2009). This approach is composed of three phases i.e. Plan, Do and Check and Act.
