Many organizations try to merge together the Quality / Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Management systems to avoid extensive paper work and streamline the entire process of management system certification. Its quite t easy to club together the systems as there are lots many common elements in each system especially in ISO 14001 & OHASAS 18001.

Pointing out that a management systems standard ensured a systematic control and improvement of an organization’s operational processes, one of the main objectives behind the integrated approach is to address some common management issues of quality, environment and health while reducing paperwork that had to be done for separate certifications.