ISO 45001: Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems (OHSMS)
Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems is a system that enables any organization to;
- Manage OHS risks to employees and other interested parties
- Ensure compliance with regulations
- Demonstrate a high level of OHS performance to others by ensuring compliance with policy and its objectives
What would you learn?
- Understand the operations of an Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OH&S MS) based on ISO 45001
- Acknowledge the correlation between ISO 45001 and other standards and regulatory frameworks
- Understand the auditor’s role in planning, leading and following-up on a management system audit in accordance with ISO 19011
- Learn how to interpret the requirements of ISO 45001 in the context of an OH&S MS audit
Who should attend?
- Auditors seeking to perform and lead Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OH&S MS) certification audits
- Managers or consultants seeking to master an Occupational Health and Safety Management System audit process
- Individuals responsible for maintaining conformance with OH&S MS requirements
- Technical experts seeking to prepare for an Occupational Health and Safety Management System audit
- Expert advisors in Occupational Health and Safety Management
- Individuals wishing to become lead auditors wishing to make a career in OHSMS auditing
Eligibility
- There are formal prerequisites for education, training, and work experience are mentioned below.
Education: Degree or Diploma - Knowledge of OH&S MS Requirements
- Preferred is the completion of ISO 45001 training and implementation
- Education: Degree or Diploma
Work Experience:
- For Degree holders: Minimum 2 years of work experience
- Note: No formal prerequisite to attend the training program
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. This standard would help an organization to achieve the intended outcomes of its OH&S management system. Consistent with the organization’s OH&S policy, the intended outcomes of an OH&S management system include:
- Continual improvement of OH&S performance;
- Fulfilment of legal requirements and other requirements;
- Achievement of OH&S objectives.
Why ISO 45001 is good for your organization?
ISO 45001 is designed to prevent work-related injury and ill-health and to provide safe and healthy workplaces.
As an international standard, ISO 45001 crosses geographic, political, economic, commercial and social boundaries. This sets a single benchmark for the management of occupational health and safety. So if your organization operates or trades internationally, you can work to a single standard which can simplify your business.
WHAT ARE THE MAJOR DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OHSAS 18001 AND ISO 45001?
There are many differences, but the main change is that ISO 45001 concentrates on the interaction between an organization and its business environment while OHSAS 18001 was focused on managing OH&S hazards and other internal issues. But the standards also diverge in many other ways:
- ISO 45001 is process-based – OHSAS 18001 is procedure-based
- ISO 45001 is dynamic in all clauses – OHSAS 18001 is not
- ISO 45001 considers both risk and opportunities – OHSAS 18001 deals exclusively with risk
- ISO 45001 includes the views of interested parties – OHSAS 18001 does not
ISO 45001 benefits:
- Increase organizational resilience through proactive risk prevention, innovation and continual improvement
- Strengthening of legal and regulatory compliance whilst reducing business losses
- Demonstrates brand responsibility by committing to safe, healthy and sustainable work
- One global occupational health and safety system for all businesses, of all sizes
Success factors:
The implementation and maintenance of an OH&S management system, its effectiveness and its ability to achieve its intended outcomes are dependent on a number of key factors, which can include:
- top management leadership, commitment, responsibilities and accountability;
- top management developing, leading and promoting a culture in the organization that supports the intended outcomes of the OH&S management system;
- communication;
- consultation and participation of workers, and, where they exist, workers’ representatives;
- allocation of the necessary resources to maintain it;
- OH&S policies, which are compatible with the overall strategic objectives and direction of the organization;
- effective process(es) for identifying hazards, controlling OH&S risks and taking advantage of OH&S opportunities;
- continual performance evaluation and monitoring of the OH&S management system to improve OH&S performance;
- integration of the OH&S management system into the organization’s business processes;
- OH&S objectives that align with the OH&S policy and take into account the organization’s hazards, OH&S risks and OH&S opportunities;
- compliance with its legal requirements and other requirements.