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Readiness for ISO 45001 — Occupational Health & Safety

Assess how close your business is to the requirements of ISO 45001:2018.

25 questions · ~6 min

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How to answer

Choose “Yes” only when the requirement is applied in practice and there is documentation or records. “Partly” means it is done informally or not everywhere.

4 Context of the organization

4.1 Have you recorded the internal and external issues (e.g. market, competition, technology, legislation) that affect your occupational health and safety management system?

4.2 Have you identified the interested parties (customers, employees, authorities, suppliers, etc.) and their requirements?

4.3–4.4 Has the scope of your occupational health and safety management system been defined in writing (activities, sites, any exclusions), and have the main processes been mapped?

5 Leadership

5.1 Is top management actively involved in the occupational health and safety management system, providing resources and building it into business decisions?

5.2 Is there an approved occupational health and safety policy that suits the business, has been communicated to staff and is available to those who need it?

5.3 Have roles, responsibilities and authorities for the system been defined and communicated?

5.4 Do workers and their representatives take part, and are they consulted, in health and safety matters such as hazard identification and incident investigation?

6 Planning

6.1 Have you assessed the risks and opportunities related to your occupational health and safety management system and planned actions to address them?

6.1.2 Is there an up-to-date written occupational risk assessment covering all roles, activities and areas, including non-routine work?

6.1.3 Is there a register of health and safety legal requirements, and are the basic obligations met (e.g. a safety officer and an occupational physician where required)?

6.2 Are there measurable health and safety objectives with owners, resources, a timeline and a way of monitoring them?

7 Support

7.1–7.2 Have you defined the competence required for each relevant role, and do you keep records of training, experience or qualifications?

7.3–7.4 Are staff aware of the occupational health and safety policy and of their contribution to the system, and is there a defined way of communicating internally and externally?

7.5 Are the system's documents and records controlled (approval, versions, distribution, storage, retention)?

8 Operation

8.1.2 Do control measures follow the hierarchy of controls (elimination, substitution, engineering controls, administrative controls, PPE), and are they applied in practice?

8.1.3 Are the effects on health and safety assessed before changes to equipment, processes, premises or organisation?

8.1.4 Are health and safety requirements controlled in purchasing and for contractors working on your premises?

8.2 Is there an emergency plan (fire, earthquake, accident) with teams, training and drills?

9 Performance evaluation

9.1 Do you monitor, measure and analyse indicators of health and safety performance (e.g. accidents, incidents) and evaluate the results?

9.1.2 Do you periodically evaluate compliance with health and safety legal requirements?

9.2 Is there an internal audit programme, and has at least one full internal audit of the system been completed by a competent person?

9.3 Has a management review of the system been held and recorded, with decisions and actions?

10 Improvement

10.2 Are accidents and near misses reported and investigated, and do they lead to corrective actions?

10 Are nonconformities recorded, their causes analysed, and corrective actions taken and checked for effectiveness?

10 Are there documented examples of continual improvement of the system?

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