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ISO 45001: What to Expect and How to Prepare
Health, Safety, and Environment
2016-08-03
What is the difference between ISO 45001 and OHSAS 18001?
In answering that question, we’ll be looking at three pretend scenarios. So, we’ll be looking at the why, the what, and the how of the DIS 45001. Ok, so talking about “Why”. First of all, we’ll look at in comparison with [OHSAS] 18001. You’ll discover that [OHSAS] 18001 has been the internationally recognized standard that has been in use for some time now. But the downside is that [OHSAS] 18001 has over 40 different international versions.
What changes do we expect in ISO 45001?
The ISO 45001 will adopt a high level structure, just like Annex SL. The Annex SL has a common terminology and content just like ISO 14001, ISO 27001, and ISO 9001. And then in this common terminology, we can identify some of this terminology as in the “Risk”, “Compliance Obligation”, “Corrective Actions”, “Documented information” and these are the common terminology we find in each of these standards, in ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, and we will have the same in ISO 45001.
ISO 45001 Standard will also have the same concept as in other standards. We have the context of the organization and then the leadership, workers participation, planning of risk and opportunities, support mechanism and then the performance evaluation, and improvement.
How to prepare for and implement ISO 45001?
Remember, the ISO 45001 has not been published yet. It is still undergoing a review and hopefully it will be published in 2017. But, we can still prepare and make ourselves ready for it. How do we prepare ourselves for that? I believe we have five categories. We’ll look at a set of Occupational Health and Safety strategy in align with overall organization strategy. And the second point is to engage the stakeholders. So, engaging the stakeholders will involve internal and external customers so that they have a same objective aligned with the overall organizational strategy. The third point will be to analyze the value chain. The supply chain and value chain in the organization would depend on the primary supplies and the supportive supplies as well. The forth one would be demonstrating of leadership. So, the top management would demonstrate leadership. And demonstrating leadership would involve management commitment and communication, and the allocation of resources. And then, the last one would be to evaluate the risk and opportunities available. Once these things have been evaluated, I believe it would give opportunity for organization readiness when this standard is published.
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Samuel Duckworth-Essilfie |
