ISO 45001 (OHSAS)- Introduction

ISO 45001 is the world’s first occupational health and safety international standard and is currently being developed to assist organisations to provide a safe and healthy workplace for your workers and other people, prevent deaths, work-related injury and ill-health as well as continually improving OHS performance.ISO 45001 is one of the world’s most anticipated standards for occupational health and safety (OHS) systems. It is aligned with ISO 9001 (Quality Management), ISO 14001 (Environment Management and builds on OHSAS 18001, which is a framework aimed at controlling risks.

ISO 45001-Benefits

There are numerous benefits of implementing ISO 45001. These include: 

• Improving its ability to respond to regulatory compliance issues
• Reducing the overall costs of incidents
• Reducing downtime and the costs of disruption to operations
• Reducing the cost of insurance premiums
• Recognition for having achieved an international benchmark, which may in turn influence customers

ISO 45001-Clauses

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