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An occupational health and safety management system (AMS) is an essential part of an organization's risk management strategy. With an AMS, a company can:
ISO 45001 is an international standard for occupational health and safety management systems. It replaces OHSAS 18001 and adopts the High Level Structure according to Annex SL, which is mandatory for all new and revised ISO management system standards.
ISO 45001 can be harmonized with other management system standards such as ISO 9001:2015 or ISO 14001:2015. The German version DIN ISO 45001: 2018-06 was published in 2018.
ISO 45001 focuses on the context of an organization. It requires the organization to consider what stakeholders expect from the organization in terms of occupational health and safety management. The organization must determine which interested parties are relevant to its AMS and what requirements these interested parties have.
ISO 45001 is intended to ensure that organizations develop an in-depth understanding of important issues that can have a positive or negative impact on occupational health and safety. It is intended to deal responsibly with their occupational health and safety obligations towards their employees.
Relevant issues are those that affect the organization's ability to achieve the desired outcomes. This also includes the objectives that the company has set itself in connection with its AMS, such as achieving the obligations arising from its health and safety policy.
Top management must be directly involved in the AMS and demonstrate their commitment to the AMS. Health and safety performance must be taken into account in strategic planning.
Top management must also contribute to the success of the AMS by playing an active role in instructing and supporting workers and communicating with workers, promoting the AMS culture in the organization and leading by example.
The new standard sets out clear requirements regarding the responsibility and accountability of top management in relation to occupational health and safety. This ensures that ultimate responsibility cannot be delegated to safety officers or other managers within the company.
The standard requires the top management of an organization to promote consultation with employees and their representatives and their co-determination, as these are essential factors in occupational health and safety management.
Consultation implies two-way communication - dialogue and exchange - and involves the timely provision of the information that workers and their representatives need before the organization can make a decision.
The health and safety management system is dependent on worker participation, which empowers workers to participate in the decision-making process on health and safety performance and to provide feedback on proposed changes.
The organization must encourage workers at all levels to report hazardous situations so that preventive and remedial action can be taken. Workers must be able to report areas for improvement without fear of dismissal, disciplinary action or similar reprisals.
Closely related to the focus on the organizational context is the requirement to take a risk-based approach to the development and implementation of an AMS. An organization must identify the risks and opportunities it must address to ensure that the AMS can achieve the desired results.
These risks and opportunities include those that are relevant to or determined by the organization's context. The organization must plan the measures to address these opportunities and risks, implement them in its AMS processes and evaluate their effectiveness.
The standard requires organizations to ensure that outsourced processes that have an impact on their AMS are defined and controlled. Where outsourced supplied products and/or services are under the control of the organization, supplier and contractor risks must be effectively managed.
Instead of the term "documents and records", which was used in OHSAS 18001, the term "documented information" is now used. From now on, evidence from processed data that has not been stored in a formal documentation system, such as electronic data on smartphones and tablets, will be accepted.
The audit processes and types of management systems and certification programs can be found on the respective detail pages.
The processes for granting, refusing, maintaining, renewing, suspending, restoring or withdrawing certification or extending or limiting the scope of certification, as well as the use of the certification body's name and certification mark or logo, procedures for handling requests for information, complaints and appeals and impartiality policy can be found in our Certification Regulations.
The certification of management systems is offered exclusively by the certification body as a defined part of SGS-TÜV Saar GmbH; the certification body acts independently of all other services offered by other units within SGS-TÜV Saar GmbH and other SGS companies.
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