More and more of our existing clients and many new clients are contacting us to ask about help implementing OHSAS18001. The reasons are varied depending on the sector but everyone has a common theme of wanting to be able to prove that their safety systems are appropriate and adequate – for insurers, clients and enforcing authorities.
OHSAS is already recognised across Europe and the world and is now going to be fully ratified as a ISO standard (ISO45001). This is good news for everyone and also means that the standard fits that much more easily with the established standards of ISO9001 and ISO14001.
Read on below to find out a bit more technical detail and if you have any questions or an interest in implementing OHSAS18001 / ISO45001 in your business please use the links below;
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ISO/PC 283 is the committee responsible for ISO 45001 and they held their inaugural meeting in London last October. 83 delegates representing 27 member bodies attended and agreed that, as with the recently published ISO 27001 revision, ISO 45001 will fall in line with the Annex SL high-level structure. This will mean the structure of the standard will be:
- Scope
- Normative references
- Terms and definitions
- Context of the organisation
- Leadership
- Planning
- Support
- Operation
- Performance evaluation
- Improvement
Moving forward, the committee established a plan for the development and publication of the standard:
- ISO/CD 45001 (first committee draft) to be published by May 2014;
- ISO/DIS 45001 (first draft international standard) to be published by February 2015;
- ISO/FDIS 45001 (final draft international standard) to be published by March 2016;
- ISO 45001 to be published in October 2016.
The next meeting for the ISO/PC 283 committee will be held in March 2014 in Morocco in order to get the working draft of ISO 45001. It will then be open for comment, in order to ensure the standard reflects the needs of users around the world.
