What is ISO 45001:2018 ?

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. 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 45001:2018

An ISO 45001 based OH&S management system will enable an organisation 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
• Establishing operational controls to manage its OH&S risks and its legal and other requirements
• Increasing awareness of its OH&S risks
• Evaluating its OH&S performance and seeking to improve it, through taking appropriate actions
• Ensuring workers take an active role in OH&S matters

How to Establishment ISO 45001:2018 Standard

You should have to go through some steps for establishing this occupational health and safety management system.

• One should have to formulate this management system with the establishment of an occupational health and safety manual.
• It is necessary to set up OHS objectives and programs and make documentation.
• Create a procedure to identify danger, assess risk and determine controls in the workplace.
• Make sure that the applicable occupational health and safety legislation is identified and communicated properly.
• You have to define roles, responsibilities, accountability, and authority to the occupational health and safety management system.
• Preserve operational control.
• Making a plan for emergency preparedness and response.
• You have to apply a corrective and preventive action to identify and deal with occupational health and safety.
• One should have to measure the OHS performance of the organization.
• It is needed to audit and review the system at management level periodically.

Feature of OHSAS Occupational Health and Management System Standard

ISO 45001:2018 international standard series is designed to help organizations in implementing health and safety policies and objectives. This series is similar to the structure of ISO 14001 and is based on two concepts such as continual improvement and regulatory compliance.