STUDY REPORT

Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Engineering and

Technology, Peshawar

ISO-45001 OF SGS

GROUP MEMBER:
SAHIBZADA NAVEED INAYATULLAH
(18PWMEC4513)

SUBMITTED TO:

DR. SADIQ KHATTAK

A STUDY REPORT
 ISO 45001: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND
SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (OHSMS)

ISO 45001 certification – reduce your organizational risk and promote occupational health and
safety (OHS) by working with SGS to achieve certification for the new standard.
An Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) is a fundamental part of an
organization's risk management strategy. Implementing an OHSMS enables an organization to:

• Protect its workforce and others under its control

• Comply with legal requirements
• Facilitate continual improvement

ISO 45001 is the internationally recognized standard for an OHSMS. While it shares some content
and requirements with its predecessor, OHSAS 18001, the ISO 45001 standard adopts the Annex
SL top-level framework of all new and revised ISO management system standards.

Below are the Key Requirement of ISO-45001 of Company SGS

• ISO 45001 Standard – Key Areas and Organization Context

ISO 45001 places a strong focus on an organization’s context. It requires the organization to
consider what stakeholders expect from it in terms of occupational health and safety management.
The organization must determine which interested parties are relevant to its OHSMS and also
determine the relevant requirements of those interested parties.

The intent of ISO 45001 is to provide an organization with a high-level understanding of the
important issues that can affect it either positively or negatively and how it manages its
occupational health and safety responsibilities towards its workers.

Issues of interest are those that affect the organization’s ability to achieve its intended outcomes. These
include the objectives it has set for its OHSMS, such as meeting its OHS policy commitments.
• OHS Leadership

Top management must now demonstrate its involvement and engagement with the OHSMS
through direct participation, taking OHS performance into account in strategic planning.

Top management must also contribute to the effectiveness of the OHSMS by playing an active
role in directing, supporting and communicating with workers, and promoting and leading
organizational OHSMS culture.

This new standard clearly defines the requirements for top management responsibility and
accountability regarding occupational health and safety management. This is to ensure that ultimate
responsibility cannot be

• Participation and Consultation

The standard requires the organization’s top management to encourage consultation with, and
participation from workers and their representatives, as these are key factors in OHS Management.

Consultation implies two-way communication – dialogue and exchanges – and involves the timely
provision of the information that workers and their representatives require before the organization
can make a decision.

The OHS management system depends on worker participation, which enables workers to
contribute to decision making regarding OHS performance and provide feedback on proposed
changes.

The organization must encourage workers at all levels to report hazardous situations, so that
preventive measures can be put in place and corrective action taken. Workers must also be able to
report and suggest areas of improvement without fearing dismissal, disciplinary action or similar
reprisals delegated to health and safety or other managers within an organization.

• Risk-Based Approach to the OHSMS

Closely aligned with the focus on organizational context is the requirement to adopt a risk-based
approach when developing and implementing an OHSMS. An organization must identify the risks
and opportunities that it must address to ensure that the OHSMS can achieve its intended outcomes.
These risks and opportunities include those relevant to, or determined by its organizational context.
The organization must plan actions that address these risks and opportunities, implement them into
its OHSMS processes and evaluate the effectiveness of these actions.

• Outsourcing

The standard requires an organization to ensure that outsourced processes affecting its OHSMS
are defined and controlled. When outsourced products and/or services supplied are under the
control of the organization, supplier and contractor risk must be managed effectively.

Figure 1 PROTECTION OF WORKFORCE