ISO 45001:2018
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With our experience in implementing various management systems in a variety of industries and our constant exposure to management systems, SpecSafety can guide and assist your organisation in a simplified and effective manner.
ISO 45001:2018
The International Standard for Health and Safety (OH&S) Management system
ISO 45001 is the international standard that provides a framework for an organisation to manage risks and opportunities to help prevent work-related injuries and ill health to workers. The intended outcome is to improve and provide a safe and healthy workplace. ISO 45001 is intended to help organisations, regardless of the organisation’s size or type of industry they operate in, in designing unique (OH&S) systems. The ISO 45001 requirements were formulated to effectively integrate into an organisation’s existing management and business processes and not be a standalone system.
- It forms part of the ISO management systems series, e.g.
- ISO 9001 (Quality)
- ISO 14001 (Environment) and
- ISO 27001 (Information Security)
- It replaces OHSAS 18001 (Occupational health and safety assessment series)
- It specifies requirements for an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system
- It provides guidance for its interpretation and implementation to enable an organisation to proactively improve its OH&S performance in preventing injury and ill-health
- It is intended to be applicable to any organisation regardless of its size, type and nature
- All of the ISO 45001 requirements are intended to be integrated directly into an organisation’s own management processes
- It enables an organisation to also integrate additional aspects of health and safety, such as employee wellness or fatigue management in its OH&S management system
How can ISO 45001 help your organisation?
ISO 45001 provides an internationally-agreed framework for managing occupational health and safety risk in a way that is:
- Proportionate to the risk level of the organisation.
- Implementable and applicable to any organisation, regardless of size, complexity, sector, industry or country of operation.
- Helping organisation to develop and implement the right policies and processes through a systematic plan-do-check-act and risk-based approach.
- Assisting organisation meet their OH&S legal and regulatory obligations.
How can SpecSafety help your organisation in the ISO 45001 journey?
With our experience in implementing various management systems in a variety of industries and our constant exposure to management systems, SpecSafety can guide and assist your organisation in a simplified and effective manner.
- ISO 45001 system development and implementation
- Assistance in transitioning from OHSAS 18001 to ISO 45001
- Conducting ISO 45001 readiness assessments
- ISO 45001 gap analyses
- Internal audits
What ISO 45001 is not?
Why is ISO 45001 needed?
- An organization is responsible for ensuring that it minimizes the risk of harm to the people that may be affected by its activities (workers, managers, contractors, visitors)
- ISO 45001 is needed to help ensure occupational safety and health receives the strategic attention and resources required to manage this risk is effectively
- Companies already addressing all the requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety act will now have the added assurance that their management system also complies with International standards, which is verified by an external certification body
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