Benefits of implementing 45001
As we mentioned in the previous article, there are a number of real, measurable benefits in terms of implementing and carrying out the activity respecting the requirements of the ISO 45001 Standard.
Thus, the key benefits of using the standard include:
- Reducing incidents at work
- Reducing absenteeism and staff turnover, which leads to increased productivity
- Reduced costs of insurance premiums
- Creating a culture of health and safety at work, employees being thus encouraged to take an active role for their own health and safety at work
- Strengthened management commitment to proactively improve occupational health and safety
- Ability to comply with legal and regulatory requirements
- An increased reputation
In addition to these benefits, which bring both added value to the organization and help increase its performance and steps towards implementation are clearly defined, intuitive especially for those organizations that have already implemented an ISO standard.
ISO 45001 shares a high-level structure, identical core text, and terms and definitions with other recently revised ISO management system standards, such as ISO 9001: 2015 and ISO 14001: 2015.
This framework is designed to facilitate the integration of new management topics into an organization's management systems. Into the
In addition, the ISO 45001 standard has been designed to closely comply with ISO 14001, as it is recognized that many organizations combine their occupational health and safety and internal environmental management functions.
This will simplify the integration of ISO 45001, especially for those who are familiar with ISO 14001.
In the same way, organizations that have already implemented an occupational health and safety management system built, for example, on the requirements of the OHSAS 18001 standard, will be able to make it relatively easy to adapt the system to the requirements of ISO 45001.
Whether we are talking about implementing a new occupational health and safety management system according to ISO45001 or adapting the existing system to the new ISO45001 requirements, it is recommended to perform an audit from the point of view of occupational health and safety performed by an expert. The major benefits of such an audit are:
- identification of the existing state of the organization in relation to the requirements of ISO45001
- identifying the ways and actions that the organization must implement to ensure compliance with ISO 45001
By participating in such a course, the key members of the organization will meet both the requirements for acquiring the skills required by the ISO45001 standard and knowledge, good practices and innovative solutions through interactive exercises in the course.
Therefore, having these elements established, implemented, the organization can proceed to the identification of an authorized body for planning an ISO45001 certification audit.
Success and success are guaranteed only if there is involvement and soul is put into everything that involves going through the above steps.
