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The goal of the ISO 45001 standard is the promotion of good health and safety practices and the reduction of occupational injuries and diseases. Given the increase in interest and focus over the last few years, hopefully unsurprisingly, this would also include promotion and protection of physical and mental health.
Interestingly, or perhaps otherwise, the health and safety equivalent to BS 5750 and BS 7750 was never published as a British Standard but as OHSAS 18001 in 1999 – where OHSAS was an abbreviation of Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series. Yet again, the standard was adopted by International Standards Organisation and this time renamed ISO 45001 in 2018.
Many organisations, particularly those in the construction and manufacturing sectors, will already have robust and effective health and safety practises. They couldn’t do their job, or win government or blue-chip contracts, without them. Indeed, many of these practises may already be certified with organisations like; CHAS, Safe Contractor, Construction Line, SSIP and others. In which case certification to ISO 45001 is likely to be quicker and easier.
A company of typically 30 to 50 staff operating from a single office might take somewhere between 5 and 9 months to get certified. If a company already has registration to a health and safety scheme like CHAS or Safe Contractor the timeline is likely to be short circuited.
The stages in obtaining registration to ISO 45001 are likely to include:
Given the focus on health and safety in some sectors, particularly manufacturing and construction, as well as a legal imperative, there is a moral imperative, to maintain and improve health and safety systems. This will mean:
Setting health and safety objectives and targets
Investigating and learning from near misses, accidents and incidents (non conformances)
Creating and sharing “Safety Alerts” as a result
Undertaking management system audits
Potentially, undertaking project and site audits / inspections particularly for construction companies
Undertaking audits to check processes all continuing to deliver as expected and to ratchet improvement
Regularly reviewing the legislative landscape to ensure you continue to comply with the law
Holding and documenting health and safety focused management review meetings
Updating the management system as needs dictate
Health and safety is often an emotive subject. Clearly most organisations are going to know the technical detail of their work; they are sometimes less familiar with the intimate intricacies of health and safety law. Our job is to ensure you comply with the law but without overburdening the organisation. We focus on simple and practical solutions.
Statius can help with a number of ongoing health and safety management system support activities, for instance:
We are more than happy to provide as little or as much support as you need. We have provided 24/7 assistance on large construction sites, we have helped companies defend their positions with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). More usually we provide planned ongoing support be that a couple of days a year or a couple of days a month.
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