ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety Management System Certification

ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety Management System Certification

Mandatory documents for ISO 45001-2018

  1. Scope of the OH&S management system (clause 4.3)
  2. OH&S policy (clause 5.2)
  3. Responsibilities and authorities within OH&SMS (clause 5.3)
  4. OH&S process for addressing risks and opportunities (clause 6.1.1)
  5. Methodology and criteria for assessment of OH&S risks (clause 6.1.2.2)
  6. OH&S objectives and plans for achieving them (clause 6.2.2)
  7. Emergency preparedness and response process (clause 8.2)

Mandatory records for ISO 45001-2018:

  1. OH&S risks and opportunities and actions for addressing them (clause 6.1.1)
  2. Legal and other requirements (clause 6.1.3)
  3. Evidence of competence (clause 7.3)
  4. Evidence of communications (clause 7.4.1)
  5. Plans for responding to potential emergency situations (clause 8.2)
  6. Results on monitoring, measurements, analysis and performance evaluation (clause 9.1.1)
  7. Maintenance, calibration or verification of monitoring equipment (clause 9.1.1)
  8. Compliance evaluation results (clause 9.1.2)
  9. Internal audit program (clause 9.2.2)
  10. Internal audit report (clause 9.2.2)
  11. Results of management review (clause 9.3)
  12. Nature of incidents or nonconformities and any subsequent action taken (clause 10.2)
  13. Results of any action and corrective action, including their effectiveness (clause 10.2)
  14. Evidence of the results of continual improvement (clause 10.3)

Non-mandatory documents under ISO 45001-2018

  1. Procedure for Determining Context of the Organization and Interested Parties (clause 4.1)
  2. OH&S Manual (clause 4)
  3. Procedure for Consultation and Participation of Workers (clause 5.4)
  4. Procedure for Hazard Identification and Assessment (clause 6.1.2.1)
  5. Procedure for Identification of Legal Requirements (clause 6.1.3)
  6. Procedure for Communication (clause 7.4.1)
  7. Procedure for Document and Record Control (clause 7.5)
  8. Procedure for Operational Planning and Control (clause 8.1)
  9. Procedure for Change Management (clause 8.1.3)
  10. Procedure for Monitoring, Measuring and Analysis (clause 9.1.1)
  11. Procedure for Compliance Evaluation (clause 9.1.2)
  12. Procedure for Internal Audit (clause 9.2)
  13. Procedure for Management Review (clause 9.3)
  14. Procedure for Incident Investigation (clause 10.1)
  15. Procedure for Management of Nonconformities and Corrective Actions (clause 10.1)
  16. Procedure for Continual Improvement (clause 10.3)

 Timeline for ISO 45001-2018:

Please note that ISO 45001 was published on 12th March 2018. With this release, OHSAS 18001 will be withdrawn. Companies certified to the OHSAS 18001 standard now have a three-year period to migrate their certificate to ISO 45001. We recommend that your preparations start now.

Kindly go through the requirement and follow with the following plan:

  1. Validity of any OHSAS 18001 Certificate shall be restricted to: 11th March 2021
  2. All the existing client need to submit the transition plan by June 2019.
  3. Transition can be done either in surveillance audit or separate audit.
  4. No certificate of OHSAS shall be issued after 12th March 2019
  5. Transition to all OHSAS 18001 to ISO 45001 shall be started by June 01, 2018
  6. Timeline to ISO 45001 need to be done for all client by December 31, 2019
  7. Any certificate which is getting expired, shall preferably be issued under ISO 45001 only