Occupational health and safety concerns all businesses. The implementation of a management system for occupational health and safety is now a legal requirement in many countries. Furthermore, companies are increasingly required to report on their health and safety performance, and therefore, it is becoming increasingly important to demonstrate that your organization maintains its commitments in this regard.
The assessment and certification of your System of Occupational Health and Safety Management by ACSQ will demonstrate that you have a compliant system and that you are working proactively to provide your employees and all interested parties with healthy and safe workplaces, as well as to prevent accidents and work-related health problems.
The ISO 45001 standard is based on the old OHSAS 18001 standard, which is no longer in force, and on other recognized standards in the field of occupational health and safety, but with some significant modifications that characterize it.
It also applies the High Level Structure (HLS), which defines the structure for all ISO standards, so as to represent a great advantage for those companies that are already certified according to other ISO standards such as, for example, ISO 9001 for quality management or ISO 14001 relating to the environment, because it makes it easier to integrate all the different management systems.
ISO 45001 is today the internationally accepted standard for occupational health and safety management systems and is applicable to any type of organization, regardless of whether it is large or small and within any business sector of application. The standard provides a model based on the consolidated management principles of the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle and requires the organization that adopts it to identify any hazards and evaluate the health and safety risks related to its activities and services, determine the necessary controls, and establish clear objectives and targets to improve its performance in this area.
There are many tangible benefits in applying ISO 45001, but the most significant are important and demonstrated improvements in occupational health and safety performance and a greater level of control in the area of legal compliance. The ISO 45001 certification allows your organization to:
- establish and continuously improve a management system for health and safety in order to eliminate or minimize the risk to personnel and other interested parties who may be exposed to hazards associated with the organization's various activities or services;
- work systematically to achieve improvements in occupational health and safety performance and prevent the occurrence (or re-occurrence) of accidents and other similar incidents;
- ensure compliance with its health and safety policy and demonstrate such compliance to others;
- consistently comply with applicable legal requirements in the matter