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The ISO 45001 is an international management standard for occupational health and safety management, which helps companies maintain stringent systems to the security of their workforce. The ISO 45001 checklist verifies a system’s performance towards compliance. The checklist is a tool to determine the preparedness of a system in meeting all regulatory clauses of the ISO 45001. The checklist is prepared as a close to final step of a readiness review and determine the readiness of a system is ensured by the consulting specialists.

The checklist helps organizations assess their readiness towards the ISO 45001 certification or identify areas for improvement in their existing OH&S management system. This is a generic checklist, and organizations may need to tailor it to their specific circumstances. Companies mostly rely on ISO consulting specialists as they can professionally streamline everything and ensure 100% compliance within a specified deadline.

The following blog will discuss a number checklist questions that companies must prepare to better determine the readiness of their system. The checklist questions start from clause four and ends with clause ten.

A basic ISO 45001 checklist for beginners

Clause 4 – Context of the organisation

Questions

• Has your management team identified internal as well as external issues associated with their occupational health and safety management system?

• Has your management team determined individual requirements and expectations of each stakeholder?

Clause 5 – Work Participation and Leadership

Questions

• Is your executive management team committed to the OH&S management system?

• Are OH&S roles, responsibilities, and authority clearly defined?

• Is there evidence of worker participation in the OH&S management system?

Clause 6 – Planning process

Questions

• Have you determined the scope of your OH&S management system?

• Have we assessed OH&S risks and opportunities?

• Is there a process for establishing OH&S objectives and plans how to achieve them?

Clause 7 – Support/resources

Questions

• Has your management team verified if all the resources have been provided timely?

• Has your management team documented awareness, communication, as well as the competency level of all stakeholders?

• Has your management team recorded everything from time to time?

• Has your management team ensured that no more resources are required for implementation or to modify your occupational health and safety management system?

Clause 8 – Operations

Questions

• Has your management team established all procedures for controlling recorded information?

• Has your management team documented any hazards or conducted a risk assessment?

• Has your management team verified whether their emergency response procedures and are they established?

• Did your management team opt for any other response procedures?

Clause 9 – Performance Evaluation

Questions

• Is monitoring, measurement, analysis, and evaluation conducted for OH&S performance?

• Are internal audits conducted, and are those results documented?

• Has your management team review and carried out planned intervals?

• Has your management team record any of its evaluations?

Clause 10 – Continual Improvement

Questions

• Has your management team prepared any process for nonconformity?

• Has your management team taken any corrective measures?

• Is there solid evidence of continual improvement initiatives?

• Has your management team notified everyone about improvement lessons learned in the process?

Why prepare a checklist before certification?

• A checklist helps in calculating all progress made. It showcases to what extent changes your system modification has done.

• A checklist is a relevant way of including all stakeholders in discussion sessions and allowing them to share their opinions.

• A checklist is a great help when it comes to determining compliance. All questions are made based on clauses, and their answers indicate whether desired outcomes and objectives have been met or not.

• Through these questions, the right amount of resource waste can be identified. It helps to have a better idea regarding your present budget and all contingency requirements.

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