Overview of an Integrated Management Systems (IMS)

What is an Integrated Management System (IMS)?
An integrated management system is a management system which integrates all components of a business into one coherent system so as to enable the achievement of its purpose and mission.
 
What Can Be Integrated?
Anything which has an effect on business results must be part of the management system. Therefore, all currently formalised systems focusing on quality, health and safety, environment, personnel, finance, security etc. can be integrated. All the processes and the documents that describe them should be integrated.
 
Benefits of Integration

• reduces duplication and therefore costs
• increases profitability
• balances conflicting objectives
• eliminates conflicting responsibilities and relationships
• diffuses the power system
• turns the focus onto business goals
• formalises informal systems
• harmonises and optimise practices
• creates consistency
• improves communication
• facilitates training and development

How Should Systems Be Integrated?

There are several approaches which can be taken, depending on an organisation's current position.

If an organisation has a quality management system, it can build upon that by adding the necessary processes to cater for health, safety, environmental and other requirements of management system standards. All systems should share the following processes:

• document development and control
• training
• internal audit
• management review
• corrective action
• preventive action

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