If your business is accredited to OHSAS 18001, you have until 12 March 2021 to make the transition to its replacement standard, ISO 45001:2018.
Businesses not transitioned to ISO 45001 by that date will find themselves without an accredited occupational health and safety management system and the benefits that come with it.
ISO 45001 is an ISO standard for management systems of occupational health and safety (OH&S), published in March 2018. The goal of ISO 45001 is the reduction of occupational injuries and diseases. The standard is based on OHSAS 18001, labour standards, conventions, and guidelines of the International Labour Organization, and national standards. OHSAS 18001 and ISO 45001 both have the aim of reducing deaths, injury and illness through a structured approach to identifying, assessing and controlling risk, and they’ve both got the aim of continual improvement through risk reduction.
Understanding and reacting to the key differences between OHSAS 18001 and ISO 45001 is the most important dimension of your transition - so we've listed the 8 main areas to consider.
1. Annex SL
ISO 45001:2018, like most other ISO standards, has adopted the Annex SL High Level Structure (HLS).
Annex SL is designed to simplify integration with other management systems like ISO 9001 and 14001 with consistent language and matching sub-clauses, making it easier for you to build and manage an integrated business management system.
Understanding Annex SL isn't just crucial for ISO 45001 - it's the core of any modern ISO standard you can expect to accredit to in the future, so you should start your reading as soon as possible.
2. The role of the management representative
Under OHSAS 18001, the operation of the occupational health and safety management system could be delegated by senior management to a representative.
Under ISO 45001, the role of the management representative is permitted but strongly discouraged, for 3 main reasons:
- Like all modern ISO standards, 45001 places a strong emphasis on risk. Investing control of the H&S system in a single employee should be recognised as a risky set-up, particularly for larger businesses
- On the other hand, divesting responsibility and buy-in to multiple employees should be recognised as an opportunity for continuous improvement
- Most importantly, top management can no longer distance themselves from the operation of the health and safety management system by simply delegating a representative
Which brings us to...
3. Enhanced role of top management
Clause 5 of ISO 45001 pushes and encourages the incorporation of health and safety into the broader management system of your organisation.
That means senior management are now expected to take a stronger top-down leadership role, driving performance improvements into action and taking responsibility for the protection of their employees.
But what does this mean in practice? Engagement can be demonstrated in several ways, including:
1. Frequent management reviews of the health and safety system performance
2. Management initiating and participating in safety audits, actively collecting feedback from employees for improvement and corrective/preventive action
3. Adequate resources, such as the latest PPE or quality management tools, being actively invested in
4. Issue-raising, hazard-spotting and constructive suggestions being encouraged, praised and rewarded
4. Health and safety culture
Your transition from OHSAS 18001 to ISO 45001 should be designed to embed health and safety responsibility and engagement as widely as possible.
A natural by-product of the removal of the management representative position and greater top-down focus should be a greater proportion of your staff understanding how they can support and contribute to a culture of health and safety.
This goes beyond just training your staff on health and safety procedures and expecting them to stick to them.
Instead, health and safety should be seamlessly part of 'business as usual', with all workers aware of the objectives and advantages of a safe and efficient workplace, and empowered to contribute to it.
A robust health and safety culture should comprise:
- Integrating your H&S vision into recruitment
- Giving staff increased participation and consultation, testing new initiatives before implementation and building policies around staff feedback
- Utilising your workforce as 'moles', in the habit of flagging risks and opportunities alongside their day-to-day work
- Openly sharing accident investigation and enquiry results, as well as planned changes and developments
Scottish drinks manufacturer A.G. Barr combines electronic auditing with a
H&S-engaged workforce for a robust factory safety culture
5. Risks, hazards and opportunities
OHSAS 18001 focused on controlling hazards.
ISO 45001 follows the general direction of recent ISO standards by encouraging 'risk-based thinking': a more proactive, flexible and preventative approach based on remedying a broader range of risks before they materialise.
Chapter 6.1 of the standard discusses risks in the same breath as opportunities, encouraging businesses to scope, evaluate and address opportunities for continuous improvement just as they'd identify and treat risks. Rather than simply reacting to non-conformances, your HSMS should use them positively to drive your continual improvement cycle.
And the influence of Annex SL permeates into the risk focus of ISO 45001 - so the context and external influences on your organisation should be as much a part of your H&S risk register as a piece of machinery.
For instance, a regulatory or legal development that prompts you to change an ingredient or step in your manufacturing process might introduce a fresh risk to the workers following that process.
ISO 45001 also includes an expanded section on preparing for and responding to emergency situations.
In short, you should go beyond simple pinch points and slip hazards and adopt a more holistic understanding of health and safety risk.
6. Improved planning
Closely connected to risk-based thinking is a stronger emphasis on planning and setting objectives.
Your H&S objectives should take resource availability, responsible staff, relevant KPIs and timelines into account.
And ISO 45001 is more explicit than OHSAS 18001 about formalising organisational goals, linking them to health and safety objectives, setting priorities and establishing documentation.
7. A new definition of 'health'
Health and safety tends to make people think in purely physical terms.
And while mental health isn't explicitly mentioned in ISO 45001, the standard is designed to be flexible enough to map onto your specific company needs.
So if mental wellbeing is a concern for your business, there are several areas of ISO 45001 you can leverage for a more integrated HSMS protecting body and mind.
1. Clause 4.2: the needs of workers and interested parties can include mental wellbeing, and can be included in your health and safety policy
2. Clause 6.1.2.1: as part of your hazard/risk identification, you can now consider factors such as employee stress and fatigue and how these might impact your business processes and functions
3. Clause 6.2: mental health can be integrated into your H&S improvement objectives and plans, and tracked as a KPI through mechanisms like annual reviews and satisfaction surveys.
4. Clause 8.1.2: mental health risks can be treated and their residual risk scores lowered like any other risk. For instance, mentally taxing processes can be rotated and divided among employees to prevent excessive stress.
8. Terminology updates
Of the 37 terms and definitions included in ISO 45001, only 3 are identical to those in OHSAS 18001.
New definitions include ‘worker’ and ‘workplace’, while 'documents and records' are now 'documented information' to reflect the wider focus of a 45001 health and safety system.
Next steps
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ISO 45001 adoption by country
ISO 45001 is an ISO standard for management systems of occupational health and safety (OH&S), published in March 2018. The goal of ISO 45001 is the reduction of occupational injuries and diseases.[1]
The standard is based on OHSAS 18001, conventions and guidelines of the International Labour Organization including ILO OSH 2001, and national standards.[2][1] It includes elements that are additional to BS OHSAS 18001 (see below: ISO 45001 changes compared to OHSAS 18001:2007) which it is replacing over a three-year migration period from 2018 to 2021.[3]
ISO 45001 also follows the High Level Structure of other ISO standards like ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 which makes integration of these standards much easier.[4][5]
Development[edit]
ISO 45001 was proposed at the ISO in October 2013. The committee ISO/PC 283, created in 2013, had direct responsibility for the standardization process.[6] At least 70 countries contributed to the drafting process.[7] Preparation and committee work lasted until December 2015. From 2015 to 2017, a first draft failed to gain sufficient approval from ISO members and was revised in a second draft, which was approved and refined into a final draft.[6] In the final vote the standard garnered 62 votes in favour, nine abstentions and four votes against from France, India, Spain, and Turkey.[8] The standard was published on 12 March 2018.[6]
Certification[edit]
ISO 45001 is set to replace OHSAS 18001 over three years following its publication in March 2018[9]. BSI will formally withdraw BS OSHAS 18001 in March 2021, at the end of the migration period[9]. ISO 45001 uses the management system standard structure guideline Annex SL to allow for simplified integration with other management system standards, such as ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.[10] The International Accreditation Forum has published requirements for migration from OHSAS 18001 to ISO 45001.[11]
ISO/IEC TS 17021-10:2018 is a technical specification setting out competence requirements for auditing and certification of ISO 45001.[12]
Adoption[edit]
ISO 45001 was adopted as a national standard by Albania, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uruguay.N-[1]
ISO 45001 changes compared to OHSAS 18001:2007[edit]
- Context of the organization (Clause 4.1): The organization shall determine internal and external issues that are relevant to its purpose and that affect its ability to achieve the intended outcome(s) of its OH & S management system.
- Understanding the needs and expectations of workers and other interested parties (clause 4.2): interested parties are workers, suppliers, subcontractors, clients, regulatory authorities.
- Risk and opportunities (Clauses: 6.1.1, 6.1.2.3, 6.1.4): companies are to determine, consider and, where necessary, take action to address any risks or opportunities that may impact (either positively or negatively) the ability of the management system to deliver its intended results, including enhanced health and safety at the workplace.
- Leadership and management commitment (Clauses: 5.1) has stronger emphasis on top management to actively engage and take accountability for the effectiveness of the management system.
- Planning: (clause 6)
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