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ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety

ISO 45001 (Occupational health and safety management systems -Requirements with guidance for use) Overview

The safety and health management system predicts and prevents possible risks in workplace activities by switching from previous safety manager-centered safety activities to activities involving CEOs, all members of organizations and stakeholders. Therefore, it is a system that protects the safety and health of its members and ultimately systematically manages the profits of companies and the safety of its members.
ISO45001 was established to systematically introduce a workplace safety and health management system in the industry. ISO45001 is a systematic and effective system that improves the performance of enterprises' industrial health and safety activities through screening standards and guidelines for workplace safety management systems, and suggests directions for integration with systems such as ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.
ISO 45001 (Occupational health and safety management systems -Requirements with guidance for use) Feature and backgrounds
The ISO 45001 standard consists of the same PDCA cycle principles as the ISO 9000 quality management system and the ISO 14001 environmental management system. In particular, ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 are more similar in conducting certain types of risk assessments and managing identified risks, and the difference is that accidents caused by the collapse of the safety management system directly harm employees or contractors in the workplace, and the collapse of the environmental management system affects the number of people outside the workplace that is not directly related to the organization. In this regard, ISO 45001 emphasizes the application of actual condition analysis and risk analysis techniques necessary for safety risk analysis. The system under ISO 45001 allows corporate managers to establish policies on safety and health, set goals and detailed goals to implement them, establish organizational division, responsibility and authority, detailed procedures and guidelines, and regularly check safety and health management policies and goals. It is a system in which managers periodically check the implementation results of safety and health management policies and goals to induce continuous improvement of safety and health, and policy establishment, responsibility and role, internal audit, management review, document and record management are the same as ISO 9000 and ISO 14001.

ISO 45001 (Occupational health and safety management systems -Requirements with guidance for use) Contents

No. Title
4 Context of the organization
4.1 Understanding the organization and its context
4.2 Understanding the needs and expectations of workers and other interested parties
4.3 Determining the scope of the OH&S management system
4.4 OH&S management system
5 Leadership and worker participation
5.1 Leadership and commitment
5.2 OH&S policy
5.3 Organizational roles, responsibilities and authorities
5.4 Consultation and participation of workers
6 Planning
6.1 Actions to address risks and opportunities
6.1.1 General
6.1.2 Hazard identification and assessment of risks and opportunities
6.1.3 Determination of legal requirements and other requirements
6.1.4 Planning action
6.2 OH&S objectives and planning to achieve them
6.2.1 OH&S objectives
6.2.2 Planning to achieve OH&S objectives
7 Support
7.1 Resources
7.2 Competence
7.3 Awareness
7.4 Communication
7.4.1 General
7.4.2 Internal communication
7.4.3 External communication
7.5 Documented information
7.5.1 General
7.5.2 Creating and updating
7.5.3 Control of documented information
8 Operation
8.1 Operational planning and control
8.1.1 General
8.1.2 Eliminating hazards and reducing OH&S risks
8.1.3 Management of change
8.1.4 Procurement
8.2 Emergency preparedness and response
9 Performance evaluation
9.1 Monitoring, measurement, analysis and performance evaluation
9.1.1 General
9.1.2 Evaluation of compliance
9.2 Internal audit
9.2.1 General
9.2.2 Internal audit programme
9.3 Management review
10 Improvement
10.1 General
10.2 Incident, nonconformity and corrective action
10.3 Continual improvement

ISO 45001 (Occupational health and safety management systems -Requirements with guidance for use) Introduction Effectiveness and Necessity

  • 1) Coping with changes in the domestic and international environment
    Internationally, as the globalization of corporate management has accelerated since the launch of the WTO system, ordinary regulatory measures have emerged since advanced countries' checks to comply with safety standards as trade conditions and Blue Round (multilateral trade negotiations aimed at standardizing working conditions internationally). In domestic, the disaster rate continues to increase, and based on ILO's industrial accident statistics, it belongs to underdeveloped countries, and the government is tightening regulations such as bidding restrictions, suspension of business, differential insurance premiums, and managerial responsibility.
    2) Profit preservation through loss control
    The ratio of direct and indirect loss costs from disasters is generally 1:4 ratio, but considering indirect costs that are difficult to quantify, such as external images and reliability of companies due to media reports, the cost of losses is ultimately passed on to clients. Therefore, in terms of long-term loss management, companies should invest in safety and health to protect their labor force and reduce disaster losses to secure trust from the state or the international community, grow companies stably, and improve their intrinsic value.
    3) Recognition of limitations in post-processing such as industrial accidents and accident control.
    With the transition from a conflict structure of "economic growth" and "no-risk society" to a coexistence structure that values environmental and safety and pursues harmonious growth, all companies must establish an autonomous safety and health system that can prevent industrial accidents in advance, away from the existing industrial accident handling and accident control stage, to promote continuous growth and improvement.
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