Schlagwort: ISO 45001 (English)

ISO's Cheat: "Preview ISO/DIS 45001"

ISO makes sure that especially stakeholders in countries with low salaries cannot afford to obtain the Draft International Standard (DIS). The price is CHF 58 (ca. US$ 59).
See also:

ISO 45001 Information Guide

https://www.nsf.org/newsroom_pdf/isr_dis45001_guide.pdf, by NSF International Standards Registrations, 2016-07-07
There is also false information:
Webinar: ISO/DIS 45001:2016, Clause-by-Clause Overview, 2016-05-02:

This one hour webinar provides a clause-by-clause overview of the recently published ISO/DIS 45001:2016 standard. This new International Standard for occupational health and safety (OH&S) was released by the International Organization for Standardization, ISO, on Februrary 12, 2016. […]

Not to know that the standard still is under discussion or to pretend that the standard is finalized, what is worse?

From OHSAS 18001 to ISO 45001

What will the World do with OHSAS 18001 when ISO 45001 is published? (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8319963/8319963-6130997825703542787, Chris J Ward CMIOSH, Committee member at British Standards Institution ISO 45001)

[…] It cannot just be withdrawn immediately. It is written into law or regulation in some countries and this will take time to manage. There is a three year migration period planned to allow organizations to move from OHSAS 18001 to ISO 45001 and this migration should not be too difficult for those already implementing OHSAS 18001.
[…]
Read the Draft Standard and more on my website http://www.iso45001assessment.com/
And more on my Linkedin group EHS ISO 45001 https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8319963

In my country (Germany) the change will be very interesting to works councils. Here most employees didn’t have a clue when OHSAS 18001 was implemented in their companies, even though leaving them clueless was not only not compliant with the standard, it also was against the OH&S laws. But now, if the employee representatives learned from that and if they got involved in audititing their employers’ OH&S management system based on OHSAS 18001, they will be better prepared to use the migration form OHSAS 18001 to ISO 45001 as an occasion to apply their rights&duties (co-determination) when implementing ISO 45001.

Analyze This! – A Snark Exercise

 

In the ISO article on DIS ISO 45001
to which I refer in my previous article,
all images are focusing on hazards to physical health.
How boring.
Oh, that good ol’ hard hat safety! Isn’t there anything beyond that?
The image below quite nicely depicts mental workplace hazards too.
You could use this image as an exercise in spotting workplace hazards.

Henry Holiday & Joseph Swain
illustration to
Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark, London 1876

 
Downloads and links:

 

ISO 45001:2016 or ISO 45001:2017?

http://www.iso.org/iso/home/news_index/news_archive/news.htm?refid=Ref2012

ISO 45001 on occupational health and safety has been approved for Draft International Standard public consultation
by Elizabeth Gasiorowski-Denis on 12 February 2016
[…]
Now that ISO 45001 has advanced to the DIS stage, national member bodies of ISO have been invited to vote and comment on the text of the standard during the three-month balloting period. If the outcome is positive, the modified document may then be circulated to ISO members as a Final Draft International Standard (FDIS). In the event of an affirmative vote, ISO 45001 is expected to be published as an International Standard by late 2016 / early 2017. […]

Registration (required to read the DIS): http://www.iso45001assessment.com/registration.html
Actually, the DIS already was available earlier. But the ISO article has useful links.
As for “ISO 45001 is expected to be published as an International Standard by late 2016 / early 2017”, please visit http://blog.psybel.de/2014/11/11/iso-45001-2017/.

US TAG boasted internally that 9001:2015 will be the “Biggest Boon for Consultants Ever”

I am not in the standards business, but I am affected by standards, especially BS OHSAS 18001 and later ISO 45001. Initially I was naive an thought that standards are made to help many people. But could it be possible, that consultants influence standardization mainly to create business for consultants? That still could be a naive question 🙂
From an email from Oxebridge (spicy as usual):

[…] ISO 9001:2015 is a flawed product. It’s rife with confusing, feel-good platitudes, and light on actual requirements. It invents new concepts from thin air, and has abandoned the idea of standardizing established, mature Quality Management principles. It’s literally been called a “boon for consultants” by the very consultants that wrote it, giving you an insight into why they made it so incredibly frustrating. After all, now you have to hire them to decipher it. […]

OH&S management systems should help to protect the health of employees. If Oxebridge (not to be confused with Oxbridge) is right and if a “strength” of the coming ISO 45001 should be, that it has a concept like ISO 9001, that may be bad news for employees. Could ISO 45001 be “light on actual requirements” too and just convey feel-good statements which – if they are no requirements – don’t really help employees?

DIS ISO 45001: Look into it until 2016-04-01

Compared to the previous CDs, there are improvements in the DIS ISO 45001.
Thanks to the British BSI, you can look into the draft again and leave comments too:
https://drafts.bsigroup.com/Home/Details/55801
Good news:

  • Clause 3.18 now not only defines “injury”, but also “ill health”. And adverse mental (and even adverse cognitive) condition is back again. Probably I was not the only one who complained to BSI about the missing definition of “ill health”.
  • In clause 3.4 (participation) workers are involved in the in decision-making process(es) regarding the the OH&S management system.

Not so good:

  • In OHSAS 18001:2007 “incident”, “ill health (regardless of severity)” helped to avoid discussions whether an incident needs to be registered depending on the severity of ill health. I know of employers, who tried to avoid to communicate “ill health (regardless of severity)” in their information about OHSAS 18001 to their employees. Regrettably, in clause 3.35 “incident” in DIS ISO 45001, “ill health (regardless of severity)” is missing. I also don’t find it elsewhere in the draft.

CD = Committee Draft
DIS = Draft International Standard
 

Update 2016-02: http://blog.psybel.de/iso-450012016-or-iso-450012017/