The committee draft of “ ISO/CD 45001:2014 Occupational health and safety management systems. Requirements with guidance for use” is now available for comment.

One can comment after buying the draft, but there is also a facility on the BSI website, after registering yoursel, to freely view and comment on the drafts.

More info at:-
http://www.iso.org/iso/h...e/news.htm?refid=Ref1874

http://drafts.bsigroup.com/Home/Details/53407

To register freely and view certain drafts:-
http://drafts.bsigroup.com/Account/Register

Those that have an interest in this ISO Committee's papers available to public, i.e the first two meetings:-
http://isotc.iso.org/liv...on=browse&viewType=1

Thanks from me too. I am a lot happier now I have seen the draft and understand what to expect.

This is just the committee draft--later, there will be a "draft for public comment" in 2015. That will be more refined.

The note to the draft states that:-
This text has been prepared using the “high-level structure” (i.e. clause sequence, common text and terminology) provided in Annex SL, Appendix 2 of the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 1, Consolidated ISO Supplement, 2014. This is intended to enhance alignment among ISO’s management system standards, and to facilitate their implementation for organizations that need to meet the requirements of two or more such standards simultaneously.

The text of Annex SL is highlighted in the main body of the text (clauses 1 to 10) by the use of "blue font". This is only to facilitate analysis and will not be incorporated in the final version of ISO 45001.

This new harmonized approach allows for the addition of discipline-specific (in this case OH&S specific) text which hasbeen applied by including the following:
a) specific OH&S management system requirements considered essential to meet the scope of the ISO 45001 standard;
b) requirements and notes to clarify and ensure consistent interpretation and implementation of the common text in the context of an OH&S management system.

Where text from Annex SL has not been applied, this is indicated in "blue font with strikeout".

The text in Annex A presented in brown font was added during the editing of the CD, and has not yet been subject to review by ISO/PC 283/WG1.

It would be useful if all feedback could be passed to Richard Jones at the Grange as well so that as an institution we can give a broad range of feedback. His email is richard.jones@iosh.co.uk

Jay I hope you then meant for us to discuss elements of it in your post and that I'm not hijacking.

These standards are ok but I do have a bit of a problem with the Continual Improvement section :-

"Section 10.2 Continual Improvement

The organization shall continually improve the suitability, adequacy and effectiveness of the OH&S management system to"

Once you have set up your system so that you are doing and controlling everything legally you should and lets say some best practice where this is deemed appropriate. Next year you have to improve - does this then fall into the category of "gold plating " ? Doing something only because you must in order to satisfy the standard. Would this then not be detrimental to H&S and add to the perceived view "there is too much H&S".

What are others thoughts

(ok ok It would be nice to be in that position, but that aside)

Chris

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A mainstay of all the management systems is this idea of "continual improvement". It's actually not a biggie to be honest. If you train your staff or retrain your staff then you have improved your system by making your staff more knowledgeable. If you swap out an old machine for a new one for example, you have made continuous improvement by bringing in better guarding and safety controls. If you reduce the number of cuts by bringing in a glove programme, you've made continuous improvement.

The auditors are not looking for grand gestures, they just need to see that you are constantly looking at ways of improving your programmes and systems so you stay abreast of developments and you don't stagnate.

I'm old enough to remember (and implement) BS5750.
We were lead to believe this golden age was dawning where to tender for a job would just need you to wave a certificate under the nose of the client and they would no longer need lots of prequalification bumpf so life would be much much easier

Here we are 20-30 years later and I for some reason have come over all cynical