THE
BIRTH OF ISO 45001:2016 (HSE-MS)
BS
OHSAS 18001 is a framework for an occupational
health and safety management system. It can help you put in place the policies,
procedures and controls needed for your organization to achieve the best
possible working conditions, aligned to internationally recognize best
practice.
You must now be aware that BS OHSAS 18001 is
changing into ISO
45001:2016 in late 2016. So far there has been an initial
draft copy issued [draft international standard (DIS1)].
Update on ISO 45001 – February 2017
Following the latest ISO 45001 working group meeting
which was held during the week of February 6 2017, a second draft international
standard (DIS2) is expected to be published in April 2017; there will then be a
4 month period to allow for translations and a ballot to be held on the DIS2.
DIS2 will be available for review free (clause by clause) on BSI’s online Draft
Review system.
If DIS2 is approved and the final draft
international standard (FDIS) stage is not required, publication of the new
standard could be as early as November 2017. However, if an FDIS is required,
the publication is more likely to be in Q2 2018.
Key
Changes ISO 45001 vs OHSAS 18001
Annex SL Integrated
Structure
Key
Benefits of ISO 45001:2016
· ISO 45001 enables an organization, through
its OH&S management system, to integrate other aspects of health and safety,
such as worker wellness/wellbeing.
·
The ISO 45001 standard calls for the
organization's management and leadership to integrate responsibility for health
and safety issues as part of the organization's overall plan rather than shift
responsibility to, for example, a safety manager.
·
It uses a simple plan-do-check-act (PDCA)
model, which provides a framework for organizations to plan what they need to put
in place in order to minimize the risk of harm.
ISO 45001 will implement
the Annex SL process and structure, making integration of multiple ISO
management system standards easier, such as ISO 9001, Quality management
systems and ISO 14001, Environmental management systems.
·
The
ISO 45001 standard calls for the organization's management and leadership to
integrate responsibility for health and safety issues as part of the
organization's overall plan rather than shift responsibility to, for example, a
safety manager.
Reduce
work related injuries, ill health and death
* International Labour Oorganization statistics Jan 2016
- Eliminate or minimize OH&S risks
- Improve OH&S performance and effectiveness
- Demonstrate corporate responsibility and meet supply
chain requirements
- Protect brand reputation
- Motivate and engage staff through consultation and
participation
What are the
main changes expected in ISO 45001?
There are now 10 clauses, which
is a significant departure from OHSAS 18001. The requirements are better organized
around the new 10 clause structure which all the other Management System
standards will follow in the future (including ISO 9001 and ISO
14001).
1.0 Scope
2.0 Normative References
3.0 Terms and
Definitions
4.0 Context of the Organization
5.0 Leadership
6.0 Planning
7.0 Support
8.0 Operation
9.0 Performance Evaluation
10.0 Improvement
4.1
Context of the Organisation: The
intention of this is to ensure that the organisation has a high-level
understanding of the important issues that can affect, either positively or
negatively, the way the organization manages its responsibilities in relation
to the OH&S Management System for persons working under its control.
The issues are those that affect the organization’s ability to achieve the
intended outcome, including the objectives it sets for its OH&S Management
System, which include meeting its OH&S policy commitments.
4.2
Understanding the needs and expectations of interested parties: The organization needs to establish whom the
interested parties (such as legislative bodies, clients, the public,
etc.) are and whether or not they are relevant to OH&S, and to identify
the needs and expectations that those interested parties have.
5.1 Leadership: ISO 45001 adds an
important new requirement; that top management has to demonstrate its
leadership and commitment, and by taking accountability for the effectiveness
of OH&S.
5.2
Policy: This now needs to make
mention of the organisation’s commitment to continual improvement and has
a commitment to worker participation and consultation.
6.0
Planning: You now need to
consider risk and opportunities associated to the issues you identified in
4.1 with regards to requirement(s) of the interested parties.
7.0 Support: This requirement takes into account the areas of
Resources, Competence, Awareness, Communication and Documented Information. Apart from restructuring of the requirements there is very little
change. The most notable change is use of the term “documented
information”, not “documents and records”, as is the case in OHSAS 18001.
Documented information includes processed information held, for example on
smartphones, tablets and the cloud.
8.0
Operations: This requirement
takes into account the areas of Operational Planning and Control,
Management of Change, Outsourcing, Procurement, Contractors and Emergency
Preparedness and Response. There is very little change from OHSAS 18001 in
this requirement apart from making some of these requirements
more specific and explicit.
9.0 Performance
Evaluation: This requirement
takes into account the areas of Monitoring, Measurement, Analysis and
Evaluation, Evaluation of Compliance, Internal Audit and Management Review.
Again, there is very little change from OHSAS 18001 in this requirement apart
from making some of these requirements more specific and explicit.
10.0 Improvement: This requirement takes into account the areas of
Incident, Nonconformity and Corrective Action and Continual Improvement.
As in other areas of ISO 45001, these follow the same requirements
of OHSAS 18001 with the notable exception that Preventive Action is no longer
mentioned, as this is managed under the concept of risk based thinking
which is explicit throughout the standard.
There
are many more minor changes in the new ISO 45001 standard in relation to
OHSAS 18001 including lots of small changes to words, phrases and terms
which have varying negligible impacts; however, in this blog I have tried
to focus on some of the more significant changes. I would point that this blog
is my interpretation of the first draft of ISO 45001 and once the next
draft has been published, I will then revisit the standard with another
blog – so keep checking back.
