Hse Lecture Iso

HSE
ISO Certifications
ISO 14001 and related standards
Environmental management
• For companies and organizations of any type

that require practical tools to manage their
environmental responsibilities, there’s the ISO
14000 family.
What you need to know about ISO 14001
• What does it do and who is it for?

• ISO 14001 sets out the criteria for an environmental
management system and can be certified to. It maps out a
framework that a company or organization can follow to
set up an effective environmental management system.
• Designed for any type of organization, regardless of its

activity or sector, it can provide assurance to company
management and employees as well as external
stakeholders that environmental impact is being measured
and improved.
What do the standards in the ISO 14000 family cover?
• The ISO 14000 family of standards are developed by ISO

Technical Committee ISO/TC 207 and its various
subcommittees. For a full list of published standards in
the series see their standards catalogue.
• ISO 14001 provides requirements with guidance for use

that relate to environmental systems. Other standards in
the family focus on specific approaches such as audits,
communications, labelling and life cycle analysis, as well
as environmental challenges such as climate change.
Can an organization be ISO 14001 certified?
• There are more than 300,000 certifications to

ISO 14001 in 171 countries around the world.
• ISO detailed brochure …
What is ISO 45001?
• ISO 45001 is the world’s international standard for

occupational health and safety, issued to protect
employees and visitors from work-related accidents
and diseases. ISO 45001 certification was developed
to mitigate any factors that can cause employees
and businesses irreparable harm. Its standards are
the result of great effort by a committee of health
and safety management experts who looked closely
at a number of other approaches to system
management — including ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.
• In addition, ISO 45001 was designed to take
other existing occupational health and safety
standards, such as OHSAS 18001, into account
— as well as the ILO’s labor standards,
conventions and safety guidelines.
• Especially geared toward senior management,
ISO 45001 has the ultimate goal of helping
businesses provide a healthy and safe working
environment for their employees and
everyone else who visits the workplace.
• This goal can be achieved by controlling
factors that could potentially lead to injury,
illness and — in extreme situations — even
death. As a result, ISO 45001 is concerned
with mitigating any factors that are harmful or
that pose a danger to workers’ physical and/or
mental well-being.
• Sadly, thousands of workers lose their lives
each day to preventable instances of adverse
workplace conditions. In fact, according to the
ISO and International Labour Organization —
or ILO — more than 2.7 million deaths occur
globally due to occupational accidents. And in
addition to that there are 374 million non-fatal
injuries each year, resulting in 4 or more days
absences from work.
• According to many health and safety experts
— including the professionals who worked on
the ISO committee — ISO 45001 represents a
landmark breakthrough. For the first time
internationally, businesses of all sizes can now
access a single framework that offers them a
clear pathway to developing better and more
robust occupational health and safety
measures.
• ISO 45001 has seen a 97.3% increase in
worldwide certificates in 2020, showing the
growth and importance of UKAS accredited
certification in recent times. Statistics straight
from the most recent ISO Survey.
• ISO 45001 is heavily informed by OHSAS
18001 — not a simple revision or brief update.
Read on to see what organizations of all types
and sizes need to do to maintain compliance
and achieve ISO 45001 certification.
Benefits of Implementation
• With or without a formal OH&S management

system, organizations have a moral and legal
duty to protect workers from accidents and ill
health. This next section provides an overview
of a selection of positive benefits from
implementation of ISO 45001. These positive
benefits are not exhaustive.
• Adoption of the high-level structure of ‘Annex
SL’ enables organizations to integrate ISO
45001 with existing ISO 9001 Quality and
ISO14001 Environmental management
systems. This approach has reduced the
complexity of multiple clause requirements
across different standards applications, saving
time and resources.
• The standard provides a systematic approach
for senior leadership to assess OH&S risk and
opportunities, monitor and review safety
performance and set objectives for continual
improvement within the ‘context’ of
organizational activities. This may include, for
example, worker health promotion campaigns
or the monitoring of the OH&S effects of
products and services provided.
• Implementation is a demonstration and
commitment from senior leadership to
internal and external stakeholders (interested
parties) of the intent to protect workers from
accidents including short and long term ill
health effects. Of course, this may in-turn
reduce downtime, lead to reduction or
prevention of worker loss time hours and
potential prosecution.
• This commitment also provides assurances to the
Board of Directors, Trustees or owners that
management controls regarding OH&S risks inherent
within the organization.
• The standard promotes worker participation when
identifying hazards, elimination or reducing risk by
implementation of controls integrated with other
business process. This approach can improve safety
culture, minimise risk and embed best practice
resulting in increased productivity.
• In addition to internal process controls, the
standard has provided requirements to assess
procurement of products and services which
may have influences on OH&S. For example,
risk based structured management of
contractors. Such a process can in-turn
provide controls to reduce both OH&S risk,
promote positive safety culture and protect
business.
Risk Based Thinking/Audits
• Any company that operates an OH&S

management system must ensure there are
effective measures to evaluate performance
which enables continual improvement
internally. This section outlines the different
methodologies of auditing in relation to the
OH&S system to ensure it is effective at all
levels of the organization and meets the
requirements of the standard.
• Risk Based Thinking (RBT) is a central tenet of ISO
45001. RBT requires the Management Team to
continually assess the issues that affect OH&S
aspects of an organization and ensure that
appropriate targets, resources and controls are in
place. RBT empowers organizations to make
dynamic changes to their objectives and focus,
whilst at the same time ensuring that resources are
in place to control changes and unforeseen
circumstances.
• In relation to OH&S, risk-based thinking extends
to areas outside of the organization which may
influence safety.
• For example, procurement of products and
services (including contractors) and the impact of
supplied products and services. The organization
must determine the methodology for risk-based
thinking with consideration of compliance
obligations and the participation of workers.
• For operational aspects the standard clearly
defines the hierarchy of control for hazard
identification and the reduction of risks with
the involvement of workers. This methodology
requires the organization to reduce risks
associated with hazards to a reasonably
practicable level.

Hse Lecture Iso

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Hse Lecture Iso

Uploaded by

Document Information

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

Hse Lecture Iso

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

HSE

• For companies and organizations of any type

• What does it do and who is it for?

• Designed for any type of organization, regardless of its

• The ISO 14000 family of standards are developed by ISO

• ISO 14001 provides requirements with guidance for use

• There are more than 300,000 certifications to

• ISO 45001 is the world’s international standard for

• With or without a formal OH&S management

• Any company that operates an OH&S

You might also like