Insight Into ISO 45001

摘要

The latest draft of the International Organization for Standardization's (ISO) new occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS) standard was released for public comment on Feb. 12, 2016. The original intent in developing ISO 45001 was to replace the Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series (OHSAS) 18001 standard with an ISO standard. Because OHSAS 18001 is a mature standard with more than 100,000 certifications worldwide, it seemed it would be relatively easy to draft a new OHSMS standard using the Annex SL structure. That turned out not to be the case. More importantly, the draft international standard version of ISO 45001 (ISO/DIS 45001) bears little resemblance to OHSAS 18001.