ISO 45001:2018 is an international standard that focuses on occupational health and safety aspects within a business. The framework of ISO 45001:2018 was designed after a careful study of existing standards like ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.
This standard enables enterprises to provide safe and healthy workplaces. It helps prevent work-related injury and ill health, as well as proactively improves its health and safety (OH&S) performance. Although the company can decide to apply this standard as a part of its operation, the certification is not valid unless all its requirements are incorporated within the company’s OH&S and fulfilled without exclusion.
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.
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The main goal of this standard is to protect employees and visitors from any accidents and diseases at the workplace. During the implementation of this standard, a company’s processes and operations go through a systematic transformation. These changes are made with the aim to mitigate any factors that can cause employees and businesses irreversible harm. The standard is implemented to align the way an organization operates with the needs and expectations of its staff, clients and other stakeholders.
This international standard benefits the organization from the ground-up even though it is applied to just a section of the company. To ensure you receive the certification there are certain rules and the changes affect every aspect of operations. Having guidelines detailing the work conditions and reducing factors that may cause accidents, ensures the trust of the employees and in turn increases commitment and work-satisfaction. Apart from this very obvious benefit, other advantages that the company will experience include:
- 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
- Greater individual safety
- Streamlined managerial oversight
- Decreased insurance premiums
- Improved consistency and efficiency
- Improves overall position of the company in the market
This is one standard that can be applied to a particular section or sections of the company. For example, if a certain company wants to apply these standards to its manufacturing unit alone, it can do so. However, the changes are bound to affect all related processes.
It applies to any organization of any size and industry, which wishes to establish, implement and maintain an OH&S management system in the workplace. The organizations will benefit greatly with the implementation of this standard and improve its image in the market as well.
Technocrat Consultants, with its experience of two decades, helps businesses make changes and manage their operations to acquire this certification efficiently. We also provide training that ensures companies consistently review their practices to meet the requirement of the standard.