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ISO 45001 (Occupational Safety & Health) is unique in that it requires both conformance and compliance.
Organizations are required to analyze their hazards and risks. Additionally, they are required to develop plans and implement measures to mitigate risks to employees and the business that will provide for continuous improvement in the work environment.
The compliance portion of ISO 45001 requires third-party auditors to ensure organizations have in place an OS&H system to evaluate compliance, plus steps to correct issues that have been determined to be non-compliant by the organization.
As ASR clients begin to implement ISO 45001, we want to share some of the nonconformance issues clients have experienced:
ISO 45001 requires both conformance and compliance.
Conformance - several segments of ISO 45001(Occupational Safety & Health) require an organization to analyze their hazards and risks. Additionally, organizations are required to develop plans and implement measures to mitigate risks to employees and the business and set in motion continuous improvement of the work environment.
Some early ASR ISO 45001 audits reveal organizations are having issues with effectiveness relating to incident analysis (10.2) and their internal system to identify hazard (6.1.2.1).
Read more: ISO 45001 - Conformance or Compliance?
Online Standards Training has a course for ISO 45001 internal auditors.
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.
Read more: ISO 45001 Internal Auditor Course
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