ISO 45001 HEALTH & SAFETY

What is ISO 45001?

ISO 45001:2018 specifies requirements for an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system, and gives guidance for its use, to enable organizations to provide safe and healthy workplaces by preventing work-related injury and ill health, as well as by proactively improving its OH&S performance. It can help you put in place the policies, procedures and controls needed for your organization to achieve the best possible working conditions and workplace health and safety, aligned to internationally recognized best practice

Who is ISO 45001 for?

ISO 45001 is applicable to all organizations, regardless of size, industry or nature of business. It is designed to be integrated into an organization’s existing management processes and follows the same high-level structure as other ISO management system standards, such as ISO 9001 (quality management) and ISO 14001(environmental management).

ISO 45001: benefits

Create the best possible working conditions across your organization

Identify hazards and put in place controls to manage them

Reduce workplace accidents and illness to cut related costs and downtime

Engage and motivate staff with better, safer working conditions

Demonstrate compliance to customers and suppliers

And if work-related road safety is a concern, ISO 45001 can be combined with ISO 39001 Road Traffic Safety to make sure you address the increasing risks presented to your employees in all work-related activities.

What benefits will it bring to my business or organization?

An ISO 45001 based OH&S management system will enable an organization to improve its OH&S performance by:

Developing and implementing an OH&S policy and OH&S objectives

Establishing systematic processes which consider its “context” and which take into account its risks and opportunities, and its legal and other requirements

Determining the hazards and OH&S risks associated with its activities; seeking to eliminate them, or putting in controls to minimize their potential effects

Increasing awareness of its OH&S risks

Ensuring workers take an active role in OH&S matters