ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management (OHSMS)

ISO 45001

The world's first global health and safety management system

The world's first global health and safety management system
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What is ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management?

ISO 45001 is designed to prevent work-related injury and ill-health and to provide safe and healthy workplaces.

An effective occupational health and safety management system will help you to protect and enhance your most important asset, your people, to drive business excellence.

As an international standard, ISO 45001 crosses geographic, political, economic, commercial and social boundaries. This sets a single benchmark for the management of occupational health and safety. So if your organization operates or trades internationally, you can work to a single standard which can simplify your business.

Or if you are new to occupational health and safety management it’s a great framework to put into your business to build organizational resilience.

 


ISO 45001 Benefits

The ISO 45001 standard can help deliver the following benefits:

  • Increase organisational resilience through proactive risk prevention, innovation and continual improvement
  • Strengthening of legal and regulatory compliance whilst reducing business losses
  • Demonstrates brand responsibility by committing to safe, healthy and sustainable work
  • One global occupational health and safety system for all businesses, of all sizes

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How ISO 45001 supports the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals

Organizations that are committed to sustainability are increasingly aligning their corporate strategies to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Accredited certification of ISO 45001, the international occupational health and safety management system, demonstrates an organization’s commitment to ensuring decent work conditions, health, wellbeing and equality practices.

For organizations seeking to enhance their ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) profile, implementation of ISO 45001 and its alignment to the SDGs sends a powerful message to shareholders and stakeholders including employees, that they truly care for their people.


Who is ISO 45001 suitable for?

The standard is flexible and can be adapted to manage occupational health and safety and suits a wide range of organizations including:

  • Large organizations and entreprises
  • Small and medium-sized entreprises
  • Public and not-for-profit organizations
  • Non-government organizations (NGOs) and charities

BS ISO 45002 — General guidelines for the implementation of ISO 45001:2018

BS ISO 45002:2023 is the new international guidance document is designed to help organizations implement BS ISO 45001. It gives guidance on how to ensure that the specific needs of different individuals and groups of workers are addressed.

Following the guidance in BS ISO 45002 can help your business to:

  • Remove the knowledge barriers to implementing an occupational health and safety management system
  • Get step by step guidance on how to implement an effective occupational health and safety management system that meets the needs of all your employees
  • Be aligned globally on the implementation of the BS ISO 45000 standard series
  • Model your health and safety activities on real-life best practice examples
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Telesoft Technologies

Telesoft Technologies designs, manufactures and delivers Government infrastructure, telecom solutions and cyber security products and services. From market research and client feedback they concluded that the best way for them to meet their objectives of driving growth and value was to implement a structured framework.

Since then, the organization has been an avid user of management system standards. They have experienced the benefits of how the implementation of standards enabled them to actively achieve their business objectives.

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