What is ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System?

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ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System standard is a management system standard designed to ensure the health and safety of the employees in order to ensure that the employees in various businesses do not experience occupational accidents, occupational diseases, so they are not disturbed, injured or lost their lives. This standard has been developed and published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

The ISO 45001 standard is an international standard that sets requirements to enable businesses to proactively improve occupational health and safety performance. This standard is applicable to any organization regardless of size, field of activity and qualifications. With this standard, enterprises integrate all aspects of health and safety, such as the health and welfare of employees. In addition, official institutions also issue the necessary legal arrangements and make the necessary audits.

As long as there are individuals working or affected by business activities, it is appropriate for all businesses to apply a systematic approach to managing health and safety for their own benefit. The ISO 45001 standard can be used by both low-risk businesses and high-risk businesses with complex processes.

In general, this standard takes a risk-based approach and is consistent with the way businesses manage other business risks. Therefore, the requirements of the ISO 45001 standard need to be integrated into the overall management processes of the business.

ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System What Benefits to Businesses?

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ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System standard companies who benefit from this benefit. The occupational health and safety performance of the companies that have established this system and obtained ISO 45001 Certificate has improved in many ways. In the first place, businesses establish an occupational health and safety policy and set related targets.

In this context, enterprises create systematic processes by taking risks, opportunities, legal regulations and other requirements into consideration. It also identifies risks and hazards for employee health and work safety related to its activities, strives to eliminate them and conducts audits to minimize their potential impact.

Thanks to the ISO 45001 standard, awareness is increased among employees on employee health and safety. Likewise, employees are taking an active role in these issues.

In addition to these, the fact that businesses have a safe working environment brings the following benefits:

• Improving the ability of the company to fulfill the responsibilities arising from legal regulations

• Reduction of costs in general

• Reduce downtime and downtime costs

• Reduction of insurance premium cost

• Reduction of absenteeism and reduced running speed

• Recognition that the business has an international standard (this affects customers concerned about the company's social responsibility)

Why is ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System Important?

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While the ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System standard was designed, OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System standard, international labor standards published by the International Labor Organization (ILO), other international standards and local standards were taken into consideration.

The abbreviation OHSAS comes from the English Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series. The OHSAS 18001 standard has been published by the British Standards Institute and is the most comprehensive certification applied to occupational health and safety to date. With this standard, hazards and risks related to employee health and work safety are identified, evaluated and the necessary measures are taken to minimize the risks. This standard also complies with the legal regulations in force. In our country, this standard has been published with TS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems - Requirements.

Although the OHSAS 18001 standard is used internationally, it is not an ISO standard. However, as a need, the publication of the International Standards Organization came into the agenda and studies on this subject started in 2014. Finally in 2018 the ISO 45001 standard was released. This standard replaces the OHSAS 18001 standard. In our country, this standard has been published by the Turkish Standards Institute under the following headings: TS ISO 45001 Occupational health and safety systems - Terms and user manual.

With the publication of the ISO 45001 standard, a three-year transition period was recognized. Businesses that hold the OHSAS 18001 certificate today will continue to use it during this time. However, after the transition period, they will be re-audited and this time they will receive ISO 45001 Certificate.

Essentially, globalization continues to rise, and businesses are expected to be ethical in all aspects, particularly in terms of employees. The ISO 45001 standard provides businesses with recognized occupational health and safety requirements in international standards. Pursuant to this standard, risks are systematically analyzed and properly managed, applied to legal regulations, safe business practices are encouraged and occupational health and safety performance is evaluated. This systematic approach provides a reduction in the number of events and ultimately makes the business more comfortable.

Conclusion

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More than fifty countries and organizations have participated in the preparation of the ISO 45001 standard, including the International Labor Organization (ILO), in order to comply with international needs and requirements for occupational health and safety. In this way, a standard that can be used by any business is created. All businesses operating in any sector anywhere in the world can apply this standard.

The ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System is designed to help all employers and employees reduce work accidents, injuries, medical illnesses and deaths.

The common objective of all legal regulations on occupational health and safety is to promote a healthy and safe working environment for employees in the work area. Occupational health and safety in the United States refers to occupational and non-occupational safety, including off-site activities.

As a matter of fact, as long as employees are healthy and safe, businesses reduce their claims for compensation, medical expenses and insurance costs. Along with relevant legal regulations and international standards 60 percent decrease in workplace deaths and 40 percent decrease in workplace accidents It was monitored. During this period, thousands of workplaces were examined and security violations were identified and sanctioned.

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