IS/ISO 45001 : 2018 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems — Requirements with Guidance for Use

ICS 13.100 CHD 08

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (Second Revision) which is identical with ISO 45001 : 2018 ‘Occupational health and safety management systems — Requirements with guidance for use’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on recommendation of the Occupational Safety and Health Sectional Committee and approval of the Chemical Division Council.

Health and safety is one of the most important aspects of an organization’s smooth and effective functioning. Good health and safety performance ensures an accident free industrial environment. With the continuous and untiring effort of various legislative authorities as well as non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the awareness of occupational health and safety (OH&S) has improved in India considerably. Organizations have started attaching the same importance to achieve high OH&S performance as they do to other key aspects of their business activities. Considering this fact and a great demand from the industry for a comprehensive framework for OH&S, the Committee formulated IS 18001 in the year 2000 taking considerable assistance from BS 8800 : 1996 ‘Guide to occupational health and safety management system’; and AS/NZS 4804 : 1997 ‘Occupational health and safety management systems — General guidance and principles, assessment and supporting techniques’.

This standard was subsequently revised in 2007. The first revision of the standard was undertaken to take into account the revision of ISO 14001 : 1996 ‘Environmental management systems — Requirement with guidance for use’ and to make it compatible with ISO 14001 : 2004 keeping in mind the interest of the users to integrate occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS) with other management systems (MSS) such as quality management system (QMS) and environmental management system (EMS).

The second revision of this standard has been undertaken to align it with the latest version of ISO 45001 : 2018 Occupational health and safety management systems — Requirements with guidance’ and to re-designate IS 18001 as IS 45001.