The issue of work-related injuries and diseases is significant and growing, both for employers and the economy. To combat this problem, ISO is developing a new standard named ISO 45001 (Occupational health and safety management systems - Requirements) that will help organizations reduce this burden globally by providing a framework to improve employee safety, reduce workplace risks and create better, safer working conditions. The standard is currently being developed by a committee of occupational health and safety experts and will follow other standard management system protocols approaches such as ISO 14001 and ISO 9001. It will take into account other International Standards in this area such as OHSAS 18001, the International Labour Organization's ILO-OSH Guidelines, various national standards and the ILO's international labor standards and conventions. The standard is targeted to be published in March of 2018. The standard brings about some significant changes to developing, implementing and maintaining an OHS management system including: placing more responsibility on top management to demonstrate leadership, commitment, and promoting a positive OHS culture; facilitating greater worker involvement; considering new and emerging risk such as psychosocial risks; and introducing the concept of risk and opportunity, which may serve to identify areas of improvement and which are different to the organization's objectives.
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Development
It has been announced that a Final Draft International Standard will be published on 27 November 2017. The ISO Second Draft International Standard was published in March 2017 by the ISO. On 20 July 2017, it was announced that the ballot showed 88% of National Standards' Bodies supported the 2 DIS. The Drafting Group meeting in Malaysia in mid-September 2017 finished processing 1600 comments. The ISO/PC 283 committee is responsible for ISO 45001's development. The project was first approved on 25 October 2013 following the committee's inaugural meeting held in London, UK. If you have certification to OHSAS 18001 you need to migrate to ISO 45001 to maintain the validity of the certification. To correct the foregoing sentence: ISO and BSI are two different organisations, and certification to each is a separate process. Therefore a new application and certification will be required for ISO 45001. OHSAS 18001 will be withdrawn three years after the publication of ISO 45001.
Moving forward, the committee established a plan for the development and publication of the standard:
- The new proposed publication date is now March 2018
- The drafting committee published the second draft in March 2017 which passed the Ballot with 88% support.
- ISO/DIS Published January 2016, with ballot due May 2016. The ballot to approve the Draft failed by a few votes.
- ISO/CD 45001 A second Committee Draft was published in March 2015.
- ISO/DIS 45001 (first draft international standard) could not be published by February 2015 as planned, because the first committee draft failed to secure the necessary two-thirds majority vote in the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee developing it on 18 October.
- ISO/CD 45001 (first committee draft) was published in May 2014.
Assuming timescales are accurate, the standard will be called ISO 45001:2018, per the usual naming convention for standards published by the International Organization for Standardization.
It is hoped that ISO 45001 will attain more international recognition, aiding the response to published statistics showing poor health and safety management costs around 4% of global GDP. Similar to existing standards like OHSAS 18001, which will be withdrawn, and ILO-OSH, the new international standard's impact has the potential to save lives, reduce work-related ill-health and accidents and improve employee morale.
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Structure
General
The ISO 45001 standard will utilize the same common structure, definitions and core text being used for the present revisions of ISO 14001 and ISO 9001, the environmental and quality management system standards. Which is in line with what is called "Annex SL"; the rules governing the development of all ISO management standards. This will mean the structure of the standard will be:
- Scope
- Normative references
- Terms and definitions
- Context of the organization
- Leadership
- Planning
- Support
- Operation
- Performance evaluation
- Improvement
Detailed structure
The proposed structure of ISO 45001, in accordance with the structure of Annex SL, is shown below. Specific items for OHS are marked in red (environment and quality have different specific sub-clauses, see for a comparison Annex SL).
Certification
Once ISO 45001 has been accepted as an official standard, the OHSAS 18001 certification will be withdrawn. Organizations with the older certification will have to make a separate application to obtain a certification to ISO 45001, to ILO-OSH, or to other accepted standards after the expiration of their existing certification. The decision of an organization to adopt a given standard usually is based, for example, on its own policy, on customer requirements etc. In some countries, certification schemes applied to OHSAS 18001 may be adapted to ISO 45001.
See also
- OHSAS 18001 - Occupational Health and Safety Management Standard
- Annex SL
- ISO 9000
- ISO 14000
References
Read 2 DIS summaries @ http://www.iso45001assessment.com/registration.html
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