# 06 - What are the factors that may help effective implementation of ISO 45001:2018 OH&S management system standard in an organization? What is the assurance of successful implementation of ISO 45001:2018 standard?

# 06
What are the factors that may help effective implementation of ISO 45001:2018 OH&S management system standard in an organization? What is the assurance of successful implementation of ISO 45001:2018 standard?

Organizations need to protect its people, its reputation and its future. As such, occupational health and safety has to be a major business concern, beyond being a legal duty. Managing occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system effectively, systematically and in a sustained way ensures that the highest levels of occupational health and safety (OH&S) performance are a key objective.

It is a complex, long term and operational decision for an organization to implement ISO 45001:2015 OH&S management system. Top management leadership role and commitment and participation from all levels and functions of the organization make the implementation in a proper way.

Some of the key factors required, for the effective implementation and maintenance of ISO 45001:2018 OH&S management system standard, are as under:

- Top management leadership role that include its commitment, responsibilities, accountability for implementing the standard requirements. Top management should develop, lead and promote a culture in the organization that pave the way for implementing the standard's requirements.
- Appropriate communication (internal as well as external) processes make the implementation smooth.
- Involvement, including consultation and participation, of workers and their representatives (if exist) for implementing the standard's requirements. Occupational health and safety management is everyone’s business. It encompasses everyone in an organization, from the highest level down; including temporary as well as permanent workers; and visitors and neighbours. It also has to be across all departments and divisions in an organization, to ensure that they develop collaborative and engaging relationships between their functions.
- Allocation of necessary resources, such as, human resources, infrastructure etc.
- Occupational health and safety policy of the organization that are in line with the organization's objectives and direction.
- Effective steps and actions should be taken to (i) establish and discover hazards, (ii) control risks, and (iii) take advantages that are associated with occupational health and safety of the organization.
- Necessary steps and actions should be taken to carry out regular performance evaluation and monitoring of the occupational health and safety management system as per ISO 45001:2018 standard.
- Necessary steps and actions should be taken to integrate the organization's occupational health and safety management system into the organization's business actions.
- Organization's occupational health and safety objectives should (i) be in line with the organization's occupational health and safety policy, (ii) take into account organizations hazards and occupational health and safety risks and opportunities.
- Necessary steps should be taken to comply legal requirements and other requirements to which organization subscribes.

Successful implementation of ISO 45001:2018 standard in the organization provides assurance to people, including its workers and interested parties, that there is effective occupational health and safety management system in the organization to (i) eliminate hazards, (ii) minimize occupational health and safety risks by taking effective preventive and protective actions. It ought be understood that adoption or selection of ISO 45001:2018 does not itself guarantee (i) preventing work-related injury and ill health to people working in the organization, (ii) providing safe and healthy workplaces, and (iii) improved occupational health and safety performance. The Success of an organization's occupational health and safety management system also depends on a number of factors (such as: context of the organization, scope of the occupational health and safety management system of the organization and the nature of organization's activities and related risks associated with the occupational health and safety) for which documented information and resources needed are essential.

*Courtesy Source*
- ISO 45001:2018
- ISOfocus #127
- ISO Website
- ISO/PC 283 Website
- Wikipedia Website

- Keshav Ram Singhal

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