What are the major changes in ORS programs?
Written Safety Plans will be discontinued. The Safety Plan disappears because, in effect, ISIS deconstructs it into its component parts. Doing this allows the PI to easily create and maintain, for example, a discreet and more compliant Exposure Control Plan, while minimizing data entry for things that are of lesser safety or compliance interest. The Safety Plan was an attempt to satisfy multiple compliance and policy requirements in one place – a concept that did not work well on paper but works superbly in the flexible, web-based ISIS program. ISIS will also simplify compliance with the OSHA requirement that the University maintain a written chemical hygiene plan. ORS will now maintain a focused, overarching chemical hygiene plan that ORS will make available to all laboratory workers. ISIS replaces the Safety Plan as the repository of all of a laboratory’s unique safety and compliance data. The Laboratory Annual Review – the annual safety and compliance audit of a laboratory group —
