Hi Daniel 

Your first post here, so welcome to the Forums.

Before ISO 45001, there was OHSAS 18001, and I did my Lead Auditor training with LRQA and it was very good BUT that was nearly 20 years and also BUT we bought in two in house courses for 10 delegates on each and the tutor could to some extent tailor the training to our specific requirements.

I am not actually convinced that you need to go on an auditor course to implement 45001, and particularly so if you have other ISO accreditations, particularly 9001 and possibly can ask for help from someone who has 9001 or 14001 auditor training.

In essence what you would be doing is a gap analysis between what your existing management says (NOTE that I omitted the words "health and safety") and whatever the clauses in the ISO standard demand, and then perhaps making a few changes to align your systems to cover all the clauses in the standard.

If your existing H&S management systems align with the recommendations in e.g. HSG65, then you shouldn't need to do much to prepare for accreditation against ISO 45001, assuming you already do check that your systems are implemented.

A word of caution! Think about why you are going along this path. It is always possible that your existing management systems have been constructed to work for YOUR organisation. If you get distracted by 45001, there is a risk that your systems focus on the ISO standard and not on what works for your business.

Plenty of organisations have been able to proudly display ISO 45001 accreditation but on the basis of systems that have not delivered legal compliance when it came to the crunch.