ISO 45001 - Worth the Wait?
Andy Holmes discusses the core elements of the ISO 45001 global standard for occupational health and safety and how businesses are managing the transition.
Listen to Andy Holmes as he discusses the core elements of ISO45001 and how businesses are managing the transition.
What’s covered?
Published in March 2018, ISO 45001 became the first global standard of its kind, giving organisations a universally accepted framework for improving employee health and safety, reducing workplace risks, and creating healthier, safer working conditions.
ISO 45001 has been prepared using “High-Level Structure”. This is intended to enhance alignment among ISO’s management system standards, and to facilitate the implementation for organisations that need to meet the requirements of several standards simultaneously, for example, the already released ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015
With its ‘top-down’ philosophy, ISO 45001 also requires management and leadership to take greater responsibility for health and safety issues.
Tens of thousands of businesses around the globe are already certified, and it is expected that over 500,000 organisations will take up the standard internationally over the next decade. Join Andy Holmes as he discusses the transition to ISO 45001.
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Main Goals
- Remain generic.
- Simplified language and text.
- Facilitate implementation.
- Apply a ‘High-Level Structure”.
New Concepts
- Context of the organisation.
- Leadership and worker participation.
- Planning.
- Support.
- Operations.
Main Benefits
- Reduce work-related injuries, ill-health and fatalities.
- Develop and implement an OH&S policy and OH&S objectives.
- Demonstrate management commitment to OH&S MS.
- Control OH&S risks.
- Improve OH&S performance.
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Andy Holmes
Bureau Veritas
andy.holmes@bureauveritas.com
Andy has 12 years’ experience in manufacturing including the technologically challenging world of nuclear fuel. He has over 20 years’ experience in management systems and auditing and over 10 years as a senior manager in that industry. In addition to auditing in many different industries and against different management system standards, he has extensive experience in selecting, training, qualifying and coaching auditors in food safety, quality, environmental and safety systems.
Andy has extensive experience in auditing management systems in many different industries including chemicals, mining, fabrications, food and professional services industries including consulting engineering and research and development. He is very experienced in training and qualifying auditors in different disciplines including quality, environmental and safety. He has developed and delivered training programs to assist organizations develop and implement management systems. He has extensive experience in managing business operations as part of a multi-national operation.
Bureau Veritas is a global leader in Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC), delivering high quality services to help clients meet the growing challenges of quality, safety, environmental protection and social responsibility.