ISO 45001 (Occupational Health & Safety Management System)

What is ISO 45001?
ISO 45001 is the world’s international standard for occupational health and safety, issued to protect employees and visitors from work-related accidents and diseases. ISO 45001 certification was developed to mitigate any factors that can cause employees and businesses irreparable harm. Its standards are the result of great effort by a committee of health and safety management experts who looked closely at a number of other approaches to system management — including ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. In addition, ISO 45001 was designed to take other existing occupational health and safety standards, such as OHSAS 18001, into account — as well as the ILO’s labor standards, conventions and safety guidelines.

Especially geared toward senior management, ISO 45001 has the ultimate goal of helping businesses provide a healthy and safe working environment for their employees and everyone else who visits the workplace. This goal can be achieved by controlling factors that could potentially lead to injury, illness and — in extreme situations — even death. As a result, ISO 45001 is concerned with mitigating any factors that are harmful or that pose a danger to workers’ physical and/or mental well-being.

Benefits of ISO 45001 (migrating from OHAS 18001)
An effective health and safety management system can provide benefits to your customers and give you a competitive advantage by:

• Minimising the risks of production delays
• Providing a safe environment to do business
• Demonstrating your commitment to maintain an effective health and safety policy

Other benefits make your organisation more efficient, able to meet its legal requirements and help to improve staff morale by making the workplace a safer environment to work in.
Benefits to the organisation include:

• Improving your reputation and increasing your opportunities to gain new business
• Minimising risks of downtime through accidents
• Demonstrating your commitment to meet legal obligations
• Possible cost savings from public liability insurance premiums
• Maintaining compliance to legal requirements
• Providing a robust system to maintain and continually improve health and safety

ISO 45001 assessment process
A good start will be to carry out an internal audit on all areas that will need to be part of an ISO 45001 (OHSAS 18001) audit by identifying hazards and carrying out risk assessments.

You will need support from the entire management team to implement processes across all areas of the organisation.

Some things you will need to consider:

• Planning and establishing a framework
• Establishing roles and responsibilities
• Processes for hazard identification and risk assessments
• Reporting and monitoring
• Documentation
• Emergency procedures
• Measure and constantly improve processes
• Performance reviews
• - Understanding legal obligations
• Staff training requirements
• Establish OHSAS checklist

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