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ISO 45003 - Psychological Health and Safety at Work

The first global standard giving practical guidance on managing psychological health and safety at work.

Inspire trust, innovation and resilience by prioritizing your people's mental well-being and helping employees remain psychologically healthy and safe at work.

Just like physical health, mental health has a huge impact on the workforce of every organization.

From productivity to employee retention, cultivating a work environment that focuses on psychological well-being can lead to many benefits.

ISO 45003 - Psychological health and safety at work helps you to demonstrate your commitment to your workers' health.

Building on ISO 45001 as part of the ISO 45000 - Occupational health and safety management system series, and supported by a strong diversity and inclusion policy, ISO 45003 is a critical continuation of an effective health, safety and well-being strategy that prioritizes your people.

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Prioritize your people's mental well-being with ISO 45003

Earn the support of your workers and improve their performance, engagement and happiness.

Effective management of mental health risks.
Improved recruitment, retention and diversity.
Enhanced engagement and increased innovation.
Improved business resilience with fewer absences from stress, burnout, anxiety and depression.
Legal compliance.

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Aligning your organization with the UN's Strategic Development Goals

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The standard is relevant to organizations of all sizes that want to implement or improve their own occupational health and safety management system.
ISO 45003 certification enables your organization to:

Effectively manage mental health risks: Comprehensively manage psychological health and safety.

Improve recruitment, retention and diversity: Build a positive and supportive working environment.

Enhance engagement, innovation, performance and productivity: Commit to supporting your workers' health.

Improve business resilience: Have fewer absences from stress, burnout, anxiety and depression.

Legally comply: Meet your workplace obligations as an employer.

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Understand and prepare: Familiarize yourself with the Standard and obtain any necessary training whilst ensuring support from top management.

See how ready you are: Conduct a gap analysis to compare current practices with the guidelines of ISO 45003, and define clear objectives and targets for psychological health and safety.

Review and certify: Book your certification assessment with us, and maintain certification through regular audits and continuous improvement practices.
Being a guidance standard, ISO 45003 does not include any requirements.

However, it does complement the requirements in ISO 45001, and guides you on how to address psychological health OH&S issues within your general OH&S MS, so that your system covers all aspects of health and safety.
As ISO 45003 is a guidance standard, your organization cannot be awarded an accreditation in the same way as ISO 45001.

However, ISO 45003 is designed to support ISO 45001, which can be certified. So, you should seek a certification body accredited to ISO 45001.

BSI offers unaccredited certification to ISO 45003 to both clients with and without ISO 45001.
We offer a range of ISO 45003 training courses to equip your team with the skills and knowledge to implement the standard.

Our training also helps you learn how to manage psychosocial risk across your organization as part of your overall occupational health and safety management system.

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Ideally, you should use ISO 45001 and ISO 45003 together. This ensures psychological health and safety is effectively managed within your OH&S MS.

ISO 45003 complements ISO 45001 by helping you to cover psychosocial risk when meeting ISO 45001’s requirements.
Factors within the workplace, and the work we do, that can negatively impact a worker's physical, mental, cognitive or emotional health.

Psychosocial risks include the way we work, such as workloads, deadlines, type of work, isolation, and work-life balance. They also include social factors such as culture, working relationships, bullying, harassment, fairness, and career development.

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Having led the development of ISO 45001 and pioneered ISO 45003 - Psychological health and safety at work, we are dedicated to helping to create happy and healthy workplaces, and accelerating progress for a more sustainable world.

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