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ISO 45001

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ISO 45001 is an as yet unpublished Occupational Health and Safety Management Standard, set to replace OHSAS 18001.

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Development

  • ISO/DIS Published January 2016. Read the DIS commentaries http://www.iso45001assessment.com/registration.html Also see for discussions by EHS Practitioners Linkedin Group https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8319963

    • The ISO/PC 283 committee is responsible for ISO 45001's development. The project was first approved on 25 October 2013 following the committee's inaugural meeting held in London, UK.

    Moving forward, the committee established a plan for the development and publication of the standard:

  • The new proposed publication date is now mid 2017
  • The drafting committee met in Canada in June 2016 and proposed a second draft due to be published late 2016.
  • ISO/DIS Published January 2016 with ballot due May 2016. The ballot to approve the Draft failed by a few votes.
  • ISO/CD 45001 A second Committee Draft was published in March 2015.
  • ISO/DIS 45001 (first draft international standard) could not be published in be published by February 2015 as planned, because the first committee draft failed to secure the necessary two-thirds majority vote in the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee developing it on 18 October.
  • ISO/CD 45001 (first committee draft) was published in May 2014.

    • Assuming timescales are accurate, the standard will be called ISO 45001:2017, as per the usual naming convention for standards published by the International Organization for Standardization.

    It is hoped that ISO 45001 will attain more international recognition, aiding the response to published statistics showing poor health and safety management costs around 4% of global GDP. Similar to existing standards like OHSAS 18001, which will be withdrawn, and ILO-OSH, the new international standard's impact has the potential to save lives, reduce work related ill-health and accidents and improve employee morale.

    General

    The ISO 45001 standard will utilize the same common structure, definitions and core text being used for the present revisions of ISO 14001 and ISO 9001, the environmental and quality management system standards. Which is in line with what is called "Annex SL";the rules governing the development of all ISO management standards. This will mean the structure of the standard will be:

    1. Scope
    2. Normative references
    3. Terms and definitions
    4. Context of the organisation
    5. Leadership
    6. Planning
    7. Support
    8. Operation
    9. Performance evaluation
    10. Improvement

    Detailed structure

    Below the proposed structure of ISO 45001 is shown, in accordance with the structure of Annex SL. Specific items for OHS are marked in red (environment and quality have different specific sub-clauses, see for a comparison Annex SL).

    Certification

    Once ISO 45001 has been accepted as an official standard, those organisations certified to OHSAS 18001, which will be withdrawn, will have to make a separate application to obtain a certification to ISO 45001, to ILO-OSH or to other accepted standards after expiration of their existing certification. The decision of an organization for a given standard usually is based e.g. on its own policy, on customer requirements etc. In some countries, certification schemes applied to OHSAS 18001 may be adapted to ISO 45001.

    References

    ISO 45001 Wikipedia
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