ISO 45001 Consulting Services

Business Challenge: Safety is paramount. Each year, millions of workers are at risk for illness and injury. Safe, healthy workplaces require an awareness and understanding of safety and the associated regulations—all underpinned by a safety framework of infrastructure, leadership, and .

Solution What is ISO 45001? ISO 45001 is an international standard that specifies Beyond increased efficiency, ISO 45001 emphasizes leadership requirements for an occupational health and safety (OH&S) commitment. Under this standard, the emphasis is on management system with guidance for its use. It helps leadership’s ability to affect change as it engages with and organizations proactively improve their OH&S performance to assumes accountability for the OHS management system continually prevent injuries and fatalities. (OHSMS). In short, it helps organizations move from a reactive OHS approach to a top-down, proactive, and Key elements include: preventative one. • A defined scope for both management frameworks and prevention activities What are the key benefits? • Standardized terminology for safety and risk control • Enhances your reputation and positions you as an industry leader • Consideration of the context of your organization • Inspires trust as you demonstrate active, continuous • The roles and responsibilities related to leadership and improvement of your employees’ morale, safety, worker participation and performance • A means for planning for and control, and • Improves efficiency thorough consistency related opportunities • Decreases workplace incidents with the implementation • Specifics on how you need to support this set of approaches of controls • Operational considerations • Reduces insurance premiums as you prove your due • Requirements for performance evaluation diligence in managing risk and protecting your employees • Evaluation for continuous improvement • Improves individual safety behavior What is the difference between ISO 45001 and OHSAS 18001? • Enhances managerial oversight Both standards focus on occupational and risks to • Establishes a preventative risk and framework workers and both offer resources and objectives to support • Increases worker productivity safety needs. However, OHSAS 18001 is going to be phased out. ISO 45001 provides the same high level structure that other ISO standards (e.g. 9001 and 14001) share, which means they provide the framework for integrating multiple management systems within your organization. We can help you prepare for certification by: • Defining your certification scope • Internal leadership and other key decision makers to • Engaging your safety professionals, key stakeholders support, develop, and implement an OHSMS throughout the organization, and leadership to help foster • Applicable legal requirements that need to be considered a culture of accountability and ownership in the safety for your business management system • Current hazards that need to addressed in the workplace • Helping you determine your priorities, establish performance and means to identify new hazards goals, and define metrics to measure success. • A system of ranking, categorizing and prioritizing hazards • Providing a pre- gap analysis and diagnosis of your • Objectives and programmatic instructions to follow the current position against the standard Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, & Time-Oriented • Performing a two-stage certification audit: (SMART) analysis – Stage 1—readiness review to verify that the • The key resources needed for workers to prepare and organization is ready for certification implement an OH&S management system e.g. time, – Stage 2—evaluation of implementation including capital, human resources, processes, systems, technologies, the effectiveness of the management system of buildings, and plant/equipment your organization • The level of training, education or experience required to execute the necessary tasks at hand and implemented a Why Choose Apex? process to uphold that level of competence At Apex, our auditing team has extensive knowledge of • A process approach that will establish, implement, and specific industry sectors, local regulations, and markets continuously improve systematic and programmatic to provide solutions adapted to your needs. We can help elements of your OHSMS support your ISO 45001 and work with you to help integrate • How your organization will continuously trial, evaluate and other ISO standards to help you drive audit efficiency, implement actions for improvement in your safety and consistency, and optimization. And we’re backed by a global health processes partnership that gives you access to auditors in more than 100 countries. • That you have the elements of a well-established MS in place already, that enables adoption and conformance to Are You ISO 45001 Ready? best practices You may be if you have determined: • Ways to tackle and address non-compliance and process to implement corrective action? • The leading internal and external issues that would potentially affect your organization’s ability to manage • The OH&S risks that must be assessed prior to taking any enterprise-wide risks actions related to currently identified non-conformities • The challenges your organization will face and need to • What additional continuous improvement measures you overcome to develop and implement an effective OHSMS need to further enhance your existing systems • How to engage various interested parties, including Wherever you are on this path to ISO 45001, we can help. leadership and workers across different divisions or business We can ease your transition and ensure you have the right units in establishing an OHSMS approach to maximize the results across your organization.

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