ISO 45001:2018 Checklist

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What you need to do:

 Purchase a copy of the Standard – this includes additional information and clarification within sections 1 to 3 and notes
including Annex A, a guidance in the use of the standard.
 Please consider all questions in sections 4 to 10 and provide references to your appropriate system documented
information (as appropriate) in the corresponding column.
Note: Documented information
Information required to be controlled and maintained by an organization and the medium on which it is contained.
 Documented information can be in any format and media and from any source.
 Documented information can refer to:
- The occupational health and safety management system, including related processes ;
- Information created in order for the organization to operate (documentation);
- Evidence of results achieved (records).

The Structure of Your System

The structure of your management system to support the Occupational Health and Safety Management System should be unique to
your organisation. Information may be in paper or electronic form and procedures can be interpreted in whatever method best
suits your organisation’s needs, including flow charts, picture diagrams, video imaging, soft copy computer based procedures etc.
The main consideration is that the documented information can be understood and utilised by the appropriate personnel within
your organisation, which in turn provides the control and continual improvement that the Standard requires.
The size and scope of your organisation will be key factors in determining the system’s structure. It is the responsibility of the
auditor to determine compliance with ISO 45001:2018, regardless of how you have put it together.
Note: Appendix A is a guide for comparison between ISO45001:2018, OHSAS18001:2007, AS/NZS4801:2001
Scope of the Occupational Health and Safety Management System

Firstly, describe what products and services are covered under your management system that your organization wishes to include in
the certification scope: (e.g., transports over dimensional loads by road; grows and exports fruit; manufactures safety boots; designs
and manufactures children’s playground equipment; etc.)
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ISO 45001
The organization shall apply all of the requirements of this international standard, if they are applicable, within the determined
scope of its Occupational Health and Safety Management System.
The scope of the Occupational Health and Safety Management System shall be available and be maintained as documented
information. The scope shall state the types of products and services covered, and provide justification for any requirement of this
International Standard that the organization determines is not applicable to the scope of its Occupational Health and Safety
Management System.

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4. Context of the organisation
4.1 Understanding the organisation and its context
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4.1 Have you determined external and internal issues that are
relevant to your purpose and your strategic direction and
Yes/No
that affect your ability to achieve the intended outcomes of
your Occupational Health and Safety Management System?
How do you monitor and review information about these
Yes/No
external and internal issues?
Additional Notes:

4.2 Understanding the needs and expectations of workers and other interested parties
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4.2 Have you determined the following:
a) the interested parties in addition to workers that are
relevant to the Occupational Health and Safety Yes/No
Management System?
b) the needs and expectations of these interested parties
that are relevant to the Occupational Health and Safety Yes/No
Management System?
c) which of these needs and expectations are, or could
Yes/No
become legal requirements and other requirements?
How do you monitor and review information about these
interested parties and their relevant needs and Yes/No
expectations?
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4.3 Determining the scope of the OH&S management system

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4.3 Have you determined the boundaries and applicability of the
Yes/No
OH&S management system to establish your scope?
When determining the scope of the OH&S management system how did you consider:
a) the external and internal issues referred to in 4.1? Yes/No
b) the requirements of relevant interested parties referred
Yes/No
to in 4.2?
c) take into account the planned or performed work
Yes/No
related activities?
Is the scope available as documented information? Yes/No
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4.4 OH&S Management System

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4.4 Have you implemented and have the system in place to
maintain and continually improve your OH&S management
system, including the processes needed and their Yes/No
interactions, in accordance with the requirements of ISO
45001?
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5. Leadership
5.1 Leadership and commitment
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How does Top Management demonstrate leadership and commitment with respect to the OH&S management
system:
a) taking overall responsibility and accountability for the
prevention of work related injury and ill health, as well
Yes/No
as the provision of safe and healthy workplaces and
activities?
b) ensuring that the OH&S policy and related OH&S
objectives are established for the OH&S management
Yes/No
system and are compatible with the strategic direction
of the organization?
c) ensuring the integration of the OH&S management
system requirements into the organization’s business Yes/No
processes?
d) ensuring that the resources needed for the OH&S
Yes/No
management system are available?
e) communicating the importance of effective OH&S
management and of conforming to the OH&S Yes/No
5.1 management system requirements?
f) ensuring that the OH&S management system achieves
Yes/No
its intended outcomes?
g) directing and supporting workers to contribute to the
Yes/No
effectiveness of the OH&S management system?
h) ensuring and promoting continual improvement? Yes/No
i) supporting other relevant management roles to
demonstrate their leadership as it applies to their areas Yes/No
of responsibility?
j) developing, leading and promoting a culture in the
organisation that supports the intended outcomes of Yes/No
the OH&S management system?
k) protecting workers from reprisals when reporting
Yes/No
incidents, hazards, risks and opportunities?
l) ensuring the organisation establishes and implements a
process(es) for consultation and participation of Yes/No
workers?
m) supporting the establishment and functioning of health
Yes/No
and safety committee?
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5.2 OH&S Policy

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5.2 Have top management established, implemented and maintained a OH&S policy that:
a) includes a commitment to provide safe and healthy
working conditions for the prevention of work related
injury and ill health and is appropriate to the purpose, Yes/No
size and context of the organisation and to the specific
nature of its OH&S risks and opportunities?
b) provides a framework for setting OH&S objectives? Yes/No
c) includes a commitment to fulfil legal requirements and
Yes/No
other requirements?
d) Includes a commitment to eliminate hazards and
Yes/No
reduce OH&S risks?
e) includes commitment to continual improvement of the
Yes/No
OH&S management system?
f) includes a commitment to consultation and Yes/No
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 participation of workers, and , where they exist workers
representative?
Is the OH&S policy
 available as documented information
 communicated within the organisation Yes/No
 available to interested parties
 relevant and appropriate?
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5.3 Organisational roles, responsibilities and authorities

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Does top management ensure that the responsibilities and
authorities for relevant roles within the OH&S management
system are assigned, available as documented information, Yes/No
communicated and understood at all levels within the
organization?
Do workers assume responsibility for those aspects of the
5.3 Yes/No
OH&S management system for which they have control?
Has top management assigned the responsibility and authority for:
a) ensuring that the OH&S management system conforms
Yes/No
to the requirements of ISO 45001?
b) reporting on the performance of the OH&S
Yes/No
management system to top management?
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5.4 Consultation and of workers

5.4 Has your organisation established, implemented and
maintained a process (es) for consultation and participation
of workers at all applicable levels and functions, and where
Yes/No
they exist, workers representatives, in the development,
performance evaluation and actions for improvement of the
OH&S system?
Does the organisation:
a. provide mechanisms, time, training and resources
Yes/No
necessary for consultation and participation?
b. provide timely access to clear, understandable and
relevant information about the OS&H management Yes/No
system?
c. determine and remove obstacles or barriers to
participation and minimise those that cannot be Yes/No
removed?
d. emphasize the consultation of non-managerial workers
on the following:
1. determining the needs and expectations of
interested parties?
2. establishing the OH&S policy?
3. assigning organisational roles, responsibilities and
authorities, as applicable?
4. determining how to fulfil legal and other
requirements? Yes/No
5. establish and plan to achieve OH&S objectives?
6. determining applicable controls for outsourcing,
procurement and contractors?
7. determining what needs to be monitored,
measured and evaluated?
8. planning, establishing, implementing and
maintaining an audit programme?
9. ensuring continual improvement?
e. emphasize participation of non-managerial workers in Yes/No
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 the following:
1. determining the mechanisms for their consultation
and participation?
2. identifying hazards and assessing risks and
opportunities?
3. determining actions to eliminate hazards and
reduce OH&S risks?
4. determining competence requirements, training
needs, training and evaluating training?
5. determining what needs to be communicated and
how it is to be done?
6. determining control measures and their effective
implementation and use?
7. investing incidents and nonconformities and
determine corrective action?
Additional Notes:

6. Planning
6.1 Actions to address risks and opportunities
6.1.1 General
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When planning for the OH&S management system, have you considered the issues referred to in 4.1 and the
requirements referred to in 4.2 and 4.3 and determined the risks and opportunities that need to be addressed to:
a) give assurance that the OH&S management system can
Yes/No
achieve its intended outcomes?
b) prevent, or reduce, undesired effects? Yes/No
c) achieve continual improvement? Yes/No
When determining the risks and opportunities for the OH&S
management system and its intended outcome has the
organisation taken into account:
 hazards Yes/No
 OH&S risks and other risks
 OH&S opportunities and other opportunities
6.1.1  Legal and other requirements?
Has your organization in its planning process determined
and assessed the risks and opportunities relevant to the
intended outcomes of the OH&S system associated with Yes/No
planned changes permanent or temporary before the
change is implemented?
Does your organization maintain documented information
on:
 risks and opportunities?
 the process and actions needed to determine and Yes/No
address its risks and opportunities to the extent
necessary to have confidence that they are carried
out as planned?
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6.1.2 Hazards identification and assessment of risks and opportunities

6.1.2.1 Hazard identification

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6.1.2.1 Has the organisation established, implemented and maintained a process(s) for hazard identification that is ongoing
and proactive? Do the processes take into account, but not be limited to:
a) how work is organised, social factors(including Yes/No
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b) routine and non-routine activities and situations,
including hazards arising from:
1. infrastructure, equipment, materials, substances
and the physical conditions of the workplace?
2. product and service design, research,
Yes/No
development, testing, production, assembly,
construction, service delivery, maintenance and
disposal?
3. human factors?
4. how work is performed?
c) past relevant incidents, internal or external to the
Yes/No
organisation, including emergencies, and there causes?
d) potential emergency situations? Yes/No
e) people, including consideration off:
1. those with access to the workplace and their
activities, including workers, contractors, visitors
and other persons?
Yes/No
2. those in the vicinity of the workplace who can be
affected by the activities of the organisation?
3. workers at a location not under the direct control
of the organisation?
f) other issues, including consideration of:
1. the design of work areas, processes, installations,
machinery/equipment, operating procedures and
work organisation, including their adaptation to
the needs and capabilities of the workers
involved?
2. situations occurring in the vicinity of the workplace Yes/No
caused by work-related activities under the control
of the organisation?
3. Situations not controlled by the organisation and
occurring in the vicinity of the workplace that can
cause injury and ill health to persons in the
workplace?
g) actual or proposed changes in organisation, operations,
processes, activities and the OH&S management Yes/No
system?
h) changes in knowledge of, and information about,
Yes/No
hazards?
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6.1.2.2 Assessment of OH&S risks and other risks to the OH&S management stem

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Has the organisation established implemented and maintained a process to:
a) assess OH&S risks from the identified hazards, while
taking into account the effectiveness of existing Yes/No
controls?
b) determine and assess the other risks related to the
establishment, implementation, operation and Yes/No
6.1.2.2 maintenance of the OH&S management system?
Has the organisation’s methodologies and criteria for the
assessment of OH&S risks been defined with respect to the
Yes/No
scope, nature and timing to ensure they are proactive rather
than reactive and are used in a systematic way?
Does the organisation maintain and retain documented
Yes/No
information on the methodologies and criteria?
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6.1.2.3 Assessment of OH&S opportunities and other opportunities for the OH&S management system

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Have the organisation established, implemented and maintained processes to assess:
a) OH&S opportunities to enhance OH&S performance,
while taking into account planned changes to the
organisation, its policies, its processes and its activities
and:
6.1.2.3 Yes/No
1. opportunities to adapt work, work organisation
and work environment to workers?
2. Opportunities to eliminate hazards and reduce
OH&S risks?
b) Other opportunities for improving the OH&S system? Yes/No

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6.1.3 Determination of legal requirements and other requirements

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Has the organisation established, implemented and maintained processes to:
a) determine and have access to up to date legal
requirements and other requirements that are
Yes/No
applicable to the hazards, OH&S risks and OH&S
management system?
b) determine how these legal requirements and other
requirements apply to the organisation and what needs Yes/No
6.1.3 to be communicated?
c) take legal and other requirements into account when
establishing implementing, maintaining and continually Yes/No
improving its OH&S management system?
Does the organisation maintain and retain information on its
Yes/No
legal and other requirements?
How does the organisation ensure its legal requirements are
Yes/No
up to date and reflect any changes?
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6.1.4 Planning Action

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Does the organisations plan include:
a) Actions to address these risks and opportunities,
address legal and other requirements and prepare for Yes/No
and respond to emergency situations?
b) How to integrate and implement the actions into its
OH&S management system processes or other business Yes/No
6.1.4 processes?
Has the organisation taken into account the hierarchy of
controls and outputs and outputs from OH&S management Yes/No
system when planning to take action?
Does the organisation take into account best practice,
technological options and financial, operational and business Yes/No
requirements when planning its actions?
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6.2 OH&S objectives and planning to achieve them
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Has your organization established OH&S objectives at
relevant functions, levels that are needed to maintain and Tion Yes/No
continually improve the OH&S management system?
Are the OH&S objectives:
a) consistent with the OH&S policy? Yes/No
b) measurable or capable of performance evaluation? Yes/No
c) take into account applicable requirements, the results
6.2.1 of the assessment of risks and opportunities and the
Yes/No
results of consultation with worker and workers
representatives?
d) monitored? Yes/No
e) communicated? Yes/No
f) updated as appropriate? Yes/No
Do you maintain and retain documented information on the
Yes/No
OH&S objectives?
When planning how to achieve your OH&S objectives, has your organization determined:
a) What will be done? Yes/No
b) What resources will be required? Yes/No
c) Who will be responsible? Yes/No
d) When it will be completed? Yes/No
6.2.2 e) How the results will be evaluated including indicators
Yes/No
for monitoring?
f) How the actions to achieve OH&S objectives will be
Yes/No
integrated into the organisations business processes?
Do you maintain and retain documented information on the
Yes/No
OH&S plans?
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7. Support
7.1 Resources

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Has your organization determined and provided the
resources needed for the establishment, implementation,
7.1. Yes/No
maintenance and continual improvement of the OH&S
management system?
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7.2 Competence
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Has your organization:
a) determined the necessary competence of workers that
affects the performance and effectiveness of the OH&S Yes/No
management system?
b) ensured that these workers are competent (including
the ability to identify hazards)on the basis of Yes/No
7.2
appropriate education, training, or experience?
c) where applicable, taken actions to acquire and maintain
the necessary competence, and evaluated the Yes/No
effectiveness of the actions taken?
d) retained appropriate documented information as
Yes/No
evidence of competence?
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7.3 Awareness
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How does the organization ensure that workers are aware of:
a) the OH&S and objectives policy? Yes/No
b) their contribution to the effectiveness of the OH&S
system including the benefits of improved OH&S Yes/No
performance?
c) the implications of not conforming to the OH&S
Yes/No
management system requirements?
d) Incidents and the outcomes of investigations that are
7.3 Yes/No
relevant to them?
e) hazards, OH&S risks and actions determined that are
Yes/No
relevant to them?
f) the ability to remove themselves from work situations
that they consider present an imminent and serious
danger to their life or health, as well as the Yes/No
arrangements for protecting them from undue
consequences for doing so?
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7.4 Communication
7.4.1 General

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How have you determined the internal and external communications relevant to the OH&S management system,
including:
a) 0n what it will communicate? Yes/No
b) when to communicate? Yes/No
c) with whom to communicate:
1. Internally among the various levels and functions
of the organisation? Yes/No
2. Among contractors and visitors to the workplace?
3. Among other interested parties?
d) how to communicate? Yes/No
How does the organisation take into account diversity
7.4.1 (Gender, language, culture, literacy, disability) aspects when Yes/No
considering communication needs?
How are the views of interested parties considered in
Yes/No
establishing communication processes?
In establishing communication processes has legal and other
requirements been taken into account and that the
Yes/No
information is consistent with other information generated
from the system and reliable?
Who responds to relevant communications on its OH&S
Yes/No
management system?
In what form is documented information retained as
Yes/No
evidence of communications?
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7.4.2 Internal communication

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Has the organisation ensured that:
a) Internally communicated information is relevant to the
OH&S management system among various levels and
Yes/No
7.4.2 functions of the organisation. Does it include changes
to the OH&S management system?
b) Workers are able to contribute to continual
Yes/No
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7.4.3 External communication

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Has the company got an external communication process? Yes/No
How does external communication of OH&S information
Yes/No
take into account legal and other requirements?
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7.5 Documented information

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Does your organization’s OH&S management system include:
a) documented information required by ISO45001? Yes/No
7.5.1 b) documented information determined by the
organization as being necessary for the effectiveness of Yes/No
the OH&S management system?
When creating and updating documented information, how does your organization ensure appropriate:
a) identification and description (e.g. a title, date, author,
Yes/No
or reference number)?
7.5.2
b) format (e.g. language, software version, graphics) and
Yes/No
media (e.g. paper, electronic)?
c) review and approval for suitability and adequacy? Yes/No
How do you ensure documented information required by your OH&S management system and by ISO45001 is
controlled to ensure:
a) it is available and suitable for use, where and when it is
7.5.3 Yes/No
needed?
b) it is adequately protected (e.g. from loss of
Yes/No
confidentiality, improper use, or loss of integrity)?
For the control of documented information, how does your organization address the following activities, as
applicable:
a) distribution, access, retrieval and use? Yes/No
b) storage and preservation, including preservation of
Yes/No
7.5.3.2 legibility?
c) control of changes (e.g. version control)? Yes/No
d) retention and disposition? Yes/No
How do you ensure documented information of external
Yes/No
origin is identified and controlled?
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8. Operation
8.1 Operational planning and control
8.1.1 General

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8.1.1 Does your organization plan, implement and control the processes (see 4.4) needed to meet the requirements of the
OH&S management system and to implement the actions determined in Clause 6 by:
a) establishing criteria for the processes? Yes/No
b) implementing control of the processes in accordance
Yes/No
with the criteria?
c) maintaining and keeping documented information to Yes/No
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 d) adapting to workers? Yes/No
How does your organization coordinate the relevant parts of
OH&S management system with other organisations in Yes/No
multi-employer situations?
How does your organization ensure that outsourced
Yes/No
processes are controlled (see 8.4)?
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8.1.2 Eliminating hazards and reducing OH&S risks

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Has the organisation established, implemented and maintained processes for the elimination of hazards and
reduction of OH&S risks using the following hierarchy of controls:
a) eliminate the hazard? Yes/No
b) substitute with less hazardous process, operations,
8.1.2 Yes/No
materials or equipment?
c) use engineering controls and reorganisation of work? Yes/No
d) use administration controls, including training? Yes/No
e) use adequate personal protective equipment? Yes/No
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8.1.3 Management of change

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Has the organisation established processes for the implementation and control of planned temporary and
permanent changes that impact performance including:
a) new products, services and processes, or changes to
existing products, services and processes, including:
 workplace locations and surroundings?
 working organisation? Yes/No
 working conditions?
 Equipment?
8.1.3  work force?
b) changes to legal requirements and other requirements? Yes/No
c) changes to knowledge or information about hazards
Yes/No
and OH&S risks?
d) developments in Knowledge and technology? Yes/No
Does the organisation review the consequences of
unintended changes, taking action to mitigate any adverse Yes/No
effects, as necessary?
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8.1.4 Procurement

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Has the organisation established, implemented and
maintained processes to control the procurement of
8.1.4.1 Yes/No
products and services in order to ensure their conformity to
its OH&S management system?
8.1.4.2 Does the organisation coordinate its procurement processes with its contractors, in order to identify hazards and
assess and control the OH&S risks arising from:
a) the contractors’ activities and operations that
Yes/No
impact the organisation?
b) the organisation’s activities and operations that
Yes/No
impact the contractors workers?
c) the contractors’ activities and operations that
Yes/No
impact other interested parties in the workplace?
How does the organisation ensure that the requirements of Yes/No
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 its OH&S management system are met by contractors and
their workers?
Does the organisations procurement processes define and
apply occupational health and safety criteria for the Yes/No
selection of contractors?
How does the organisation ensure outsourced functions and
Yes/No
processes are controlled?
Does the organisation ensure that its outsourcing
arrangements are consistent with legal requirements and
Yes/No
8.1.4.3 other requirements and with achieving the intended
outcomes of the OH&S management system?
Has the type and degree of control to be applied to these
functions and processes been defined within the OH&S Yes/No
management system?
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8.2 Emergency preparation and response

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Has the organisation established , implemented and maintained the processes needed to prepare for and respond to
potential emergency situations identified in 6.1.2.1 and do they include:
a) establishing a planned response to emergency
Yes/No
situations including provision of first aid?
b) providing training for the planned response? Yes/No
c) periodically testing and exercising the planned response
Yes/No
capability?
d) evaluating performance and as necessary, revising the
planned response, including after testing and in
Yes/No
particular after the occurrence of an emergency
situation?
8.2
e) communicating and providing relevant information to
Yes/No
all workers on their duties and responsibilities?
f) communicating relevant information to contractors,
visitors, emergency response services, government Yes/No
authorities, and as appropriate local community?
g) taking into account the needs and capabilities of all
relevant interested parties and ensuring their
Yes/No
involvement, as appropriate, in the development of the
planned response?
Has the organisation maintained documented information
on the process and on the plans for responding to potential Yes/No
emergency situations?
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9. Performance evaluation
9.1 Monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation
9.1.1 General
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9.1.1 The organisation shall establish, implement and maintain processes for monitoring, measurement analysis and
performance evaluation.
How does your organization determine:
a) What needs to be monitored and measured: Yes/No
1. the extent to which legal requirements and other
requirements are met?
2. its activities and operations related to identified
hazards, risks, and opportunities?
3. progress towards achieving OH&S objective?

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 4. effectiveness of operational and other controls?
b) the methods for monitoring, measurement, analysis
and performance evaluation needed to ensure valid Yes/No
results?
c) the criteria against which the organisation will evaluate
its OH&S performance?
d) when the monitoring and measuring shall be
Yes/No
performed?
e) when the results from monitoring and measurement
Yes/No
shall be analysed and evaluated and communicated?
How does your organization evaluate the performance and
Yes/No
the effectiveness of the OH&S management system?
How does the organisation ensure that monitoring and
measuring equipment is calibrated or verified as applicable, Yes/No
and used and maintained as appropriate?
In what form does your organization retain appropriate
documented information as evidence of the monitoring,
measurement, analysis and performance evaluation and Yes/No
maintenance, calibration or verification of measuring
equipment?
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9.1.2 Evaluation of compliance

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How does your organization establish implement and
maintain processes for evaluating compliance with legal and Yes/No
other requirements?

Does the evaluation include:

a) determining the frequency and method(s) for the

9.1.2 Yes/No
evaluation of compliance?
b) evaluate compliance and take action if needed? Yes/No
c) maintaining knowledge and understanding of its
compliance status with legal requirements and other Yes/No
requirements?
d) retaining documented information of the compliance
Yes/No
evaluation results?
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9.2 Internal audit

9.2.1 General
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Does your organization conduct internal audits at planned intervals to provide information on whether the OH&S
management system:
a) Conforms to:
1. the organization’s own requirements for its OH&S
9.2.1
management system, including policy and Yes/No
objectives?
2. the requirements of this International Standard?
b) Is effectively implemented and maintained? Yes/No
Additional Notes:

9.2.2 Internal audit programme

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 system concern?
Does your organization:
a) plan, establish, implement and maintain an audit
programme(s) including the frequency, methods,
responsibilities, planning requirements and reporting,
Yes/No
which shall take into consideration the importance of
the processes concerned, and the results of previous
audits?
b) define the audit criteria and scope for each audit? Yes/No
c) select auditors and conduct audits to ensure objectivity
Yes/No
and the impartiality of the audit process?
9.2.2
d) ensure that the results of the audits are reported to
relevant management; ensure results of internal audits
Yes/No
are reported to workers and where they exist, workers
representatives, and other relevant interested parties?
e) take action to address nonconformity and continually
improve its OH&S audit programme and the audit Yes/No
results?
f) retain documented information as evidence of the
implementation of the audit programme and the audit Yes/No
results?
Additional Notes:

9.3 Management review

Reference in your Area of
Clause ISO 45001:2018 Requirements VERIFICATION
system concern?
9.3 ISO 45001 requires “Top management shall review the
organization’s OH&S management system, at planned
Yes/No
intervals, to ensure its continuing suitability, adequacy,
effectiveness”. What format does this review(s) take?
Is your organizations management review planned and carried out taking into consideration:
a) The status of actions from previous management
Yes/No
reviews?
b) Changes in external and internal issues that are
relevant to the OH&S management system including:
1. Needs and expectations of interested parties? Yes/No
2. Legal requirements and other requirements?
3. Risks and opportunities?
c) The extent to which OH&S policy and objectives have
Yes/No
been met?
d) Information on the OH&S performance, including
1. Incidents nonconformities and corrective actions
and continual improvement?
2. Monitoring and measurement results?
3. Results of evaluation of compliance with legal Yes/No
requirements other requirements?
4. Audit results?
5. Consultation and participation of workers?
6. Risks and opportunities?
e) Adequacy of resources for maintaining an effective
Yes/No
OH&S system?
f) Relevant communication with interested parties? Yes/No
g) Opportunities for continual improvement? Yes/No
Do the outputs of the management review include decisions and actions related to:
 The continuing suitability, adequacy, and effectiveness
Yes/No
in achieving the intended outcomes?
 Continual improvement opportunities? Yes/No
 Any need for changes to the OH&S management
Yes/No
system?
 Resource needs? Yes/No
 Actions needed? Yes/No

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  Opportunities to improve integration of the OH&S
Yes/No
system with other business processes?
 Any implications for the strategic direction of the
Yes/No
organisation?
How are the relevant outputs from management review
communicated to workers and where they exist workers Yes/No
representatives?
In what form does your organization retain documented
information as evidence of the results of management Yes/No
reviews?
Additional Notes:

10. Improvement
10.1 General
Reference in your Area of
Clause I ISO 45001:2018 Requirements VERIFICATION
system concern?
How do you determine and select opportunities for
improvement and implement any necessary actions to
10.1 Yes/No
achieve intended outcomes of your OH&S management
system?
Additional Notes:

10.2 Incident, nonconformity and corrective action

Reference in your Area of
Clause ISO 45001:2018 Requirements VERIFICATION
system concern?
10.2. When an incident or nonconformity occurs, how does your organization:
a) React in a timely manner to the incident or
nonconformity and, as applicable:
Yes/No
1) Take action to control and correct it?
2) Deal with the consequences?
b) Evaluate, with the participation of workers and the
involvement of other relevant interested parties, the
need for corrective action to eliminate the root cause(s)
of the incident or nonconformity, in order that it does
not recur or occur elsewhere, by:
1) investigating the incident or reviewing the Yes/No
nonconformity?
2) determining the causes of the incident or
nonconformity?
3) determining if similar incidents have occurred, if
nonconformities exist, or if could potentially occur?
c) review existing assessments of OH&S risks and other
Yes/No
risks, as appropriate?
d) determine and implement any action needed, including
corrective action, in accordance with the hierarchy of Yes/No
controls and the management of change?
e) assess OH&S risks and that relate to new or changed
Yes/No
hazards, prior to taking action?
f) review the effectiveness of any action taken, including
Yes/No
corrective action?
g) make changes to the OH&S management system, if
Yes/No
necessary?
Does your organization take corrective actions appropriate
to the effects or potential effects of the incidents or Yes/No
nonconformities encountered?
In what form does your organization retain documented information evidence of:
a) the nature of the incidents or nonconformities and any Yes/No
subsequent actions taken?
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 b) the results of any action and corrective action including
Yes/No
their effectiveness?
How is this information communicated to relevant workers,
and, where applicable, workers representatives, and other Yes/No
interested parties?
Additional Notes:

10.3 Continual improvement

Reference in your Area of
Clause ISO 45001:2018 Requirements VERIFICATION
system concern?
How does your organization continually improve the
suitability, adequacy and effectiveness of the OH&S Yes/No
management system?
How does your organization:
a) enhance OH&S performance? Yes/No
b) promote a culture that supports the OH&S
Yes/No
management system?
10.3
c) promote the participation of workers in implementing
actions for continual improvement of the OH&S Yes/No
management system?
d) communicating the results of continual improvement
Yes/No
workers and if appropriate workers representatives?
e) maintain and retain documented information as
Yes/No
evidence of continual improvement?
Additional Notes:

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 Appendix A – Comparison Table – ISO45001 vs OHSAS18001 vs AS/NZS4801

ISO45001:2018 OHSAS 18001:2007 AS/NZS 4801:2001

4 Context of the Organisation No Equivalent No Equivalent
4.1 Understanding the
organisation and its context
4.2 Understanding the needs No Equivalent No Equivalent
and expectations of workers and
other interested parties
4.3 Determining the scope of 4.1 General Requirements No Equivalent
the OH&S Management System
4.4 OH&S Management system 4.1 General Requirements 4.1 General Requirements
5 Leadership and Worker 4.4.1 Resources, roles, Refer 4.4.1.2
Participation responsibility, accountability
5.1 Leadership and commitment and authority
5.2 OH&S Policy 4.2 OH&S Policy 4.2 OH&S Policy
5.3 Organisational Roles, 4.4.3.2 Participation and 4.4.1.2 Responsibility and
responsibilities and authorities consultation Accountability
5.4 Consultation and 4.4.1 Resources, roles, 4.4.3 Consultation,
participation of workers responsibility, accountability communication and reporting
and authority
6 Planning No Equivalent 4.3 Planning
6.1 Actions to address risk and 4.3.1 Planning for identification
opportunities of hazards, hazard/risk
6.1.1 General assessment and control of
hazards/risks
6.1.2 Hazard identification and 4.3.1 Hazard identification, risk 4.4.6.2 Hazard identification
assessment of risks and assessment and determining
opportunities controls
6.1.2.1 Hazard identification
6.1.2.2 Assessment of OH&S 4.3.1 Hazard identification, risk 4.4.6.3 Hazard/risk assessment
risks and other risks to the assessment and determining
OH&S system controls
6.1.2.3 Assessment of OH&S No Equivalent No Equivalent
opportunities and other
opportunities
6.1.3 Determination of legal 4.3.2 Legal and other 4.3.2 Legal and other
requirements and other requirements requirements
requirements
6.1.4 Planning action No Equivalent No Equivalent
6.2 OH&S objectives and 4.3.3 Objectives and 4.3.3 Objectives & targets
planning to achieve them programme(s)
6.2.1 OH&S Objectives

6.2.2 Planning to achieve the 4.3.3 Objectives and 4.3.4 OH&S Management Plans
OH&S objectives programme(s)

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7 Support 4.4.1 Resources, roles, 4.4 Implementation
7.1 Resources responsibility, accountability 4.4.1 Structure and
and authorities responsibility
4.4.1.1 Resources
7.2 Competence 4.4.2 Competence, training and 4.2.2 Training & Competency
7.3 Awareness awareness
7.4 Communication 4.4.3 Communication, 4.4.3.2 Communication
7.4.1 General participation and consultation
7.4.2 Internal Communication 4.4.3.1 Communication
7.4.3. External Communication
No Equivalent No Equivalent 4.4.3.3 Reporting
7.5 Documented Information 4.4.4 Documentation 4.4.4 Documentation
7.5.1 General 4.4.5 Control of Documents 4.4.5 Document and data
7.5.2 Creating and updating 4.5.4 Control of Records control
7.5.3 Control of documented 4.5.3 Records and records
information management
8 Operation 4.4 Implementation and 4.4.6.4 Control of hazards/risks
8.1 Operational planning and operation
control 4.4.6 Operational Control
8.1.1 General 4.3.1 Hazard identification, risk
8.2.2 Elimination hazards and assessment and determining
reducing OH&S risks control

8.1.3 Management of change 4.3.1 Hazard identification, risk No standard equivalent –

8.1.4 Procurement assessment and determining however refer to 4.3.1, 4.3.2,
8.1.4.1 General control 4.4.2, 4.4.1.2 and 4.4.6.2
8.1.4.2 Contractors 4.4.6 Operational control
8.1.4.3 Outsourcing
8.2 Emergency preparedness 4.4.7 Emergency preparedness 4.4.7 Emergency preparedness
and response and response and response
9 Performance Evaluation 4.5.1 Performance 4.5 Measurement and
9.1 Monitoring, measurement, measurement and monitoring Evaluation
analysis and performance 4.5.1 Monitoring and
evaluation measurement
9.1.1 General 4.5.1.1 General
9.1.2 Evaluation of Compliance 5.5.2 Evaluation of compliance No Equivalent
9.2 Internal Audit 4.5.5 Internal Audit 4.5.5 OHSMS Audit
9.2.1 General
9.2.2 Internal Programme
9.3 Management Review 4.6 Management Review 4.6 Management Review
10 Improvement 4.5.3.1 Incident investigation 4.5.2 Incident Investigation,
10.2 Incident, nonconformity 4.5.3.2 Nonconformity corrective action and
and corrective action corrective action and preventive action
preventive action
10.3 Improvement 4.2 OH&S Policy No standalone equivalent –
however refer to 4.4.1.1,
4.4.1.2, 4.4.3.3, 4.5.4 and 4.6

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