ISO 45001 health and safety management built around real work.
ISO 45001:2018 remains the current published occupational health and safety (OH&S) management-system standard.
A revised edition is under development. ISO/DIS 45001 is at Draft International Standard stage and is expected to replace ISO 45001:2018 once the revision is published.
- Last verified
- Status
- ISO 45001:2018 current · revision at DIS stage
What ISO 45001 addresses
A functioning OH&S management system should manage:
- Hazards and OH&S risks
- Legal and other requirements
- Worker consultation and participation
- Leadership and accountability
- Competence
- Operational controls
- Contractors and procurement
- Emergency preparedness
- Incidents
- Monitoring and improvement
Revision approach
Do not implement draft requirements as though they are final. Instead:
- Monitor the final publication.
- Identify likely change areas.
- Avoid creating avoidable rework.
- Confirm transition requirements once formally established.
What you receive
Depending on scope:
- OH&S scope
- Hazard and risk framework
- Requirement register
- Worker-participation mechanisms
- Operational-control framework
- Objectives
- Evidence register
- Internal-audit plan
- Management-review inputs
- Revision-readiness actions where applicable
Evidence expectations
Participation and control should be visible in records, not only in procedures. For example:
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- Source
- ISO 45001
- Requirement
- Workers are consulted and participate
- Control
- Scheduled consultation forum with recorded outcomes
- Owner
- OH&S lead
- Evidence
- Meeting records and actions raised by workers
- Monitoring
- Action closure tracked
- Review
- Input to management review
How the work happens
Implementation follows the same evidence-first sequence, scaled to your scope, maturity and existing systems.
- Discover
- Assess
- Implement
- Prove
- Assure
Start with a focused discovery conversation
Tell us what you are trying to achieve, what is driving the requirement and where you are today. We use the first discussion to clarify scope and next steps, not to force a predefined package.