18001 is being discontinued so in reality your choice is 45001 or neither.

You have two options, to just build a management system based on ISO 45001 or to do that then get external certification for it.

It's certainly practicable.  Whether it is worth doing depends on the benefits you hope for from it.  Is it something your customers want to see?

Unless you are missing out on lucrative business through not having the certificate then like all management systems it is a burden both financially and in consuming what will be limited resources. Yes there are benefits in formalising working systems and practices but you can do this without paying a certification provider.

Typically this falls in to the scope of the construction sector PQQ trinity - any  time there is a job tendered those with the three certificates (Quality, Environment, H&S) tend to go through to the next level of decision making.

Despite the original BSI hard sell at the launch of BS 5750 (now ISO 9001) you will be surprised how many businesses can, and do, trade without any management systems certificates.

Yes I remember the sell for BS5750, which part of it was that once you had it you would not have to waste time with PQQ’s! Well that really turned out to be BS didn’t it. ( I have a VHS tape with that on somewhere)

As others stated, look at customer requirements and if not required why not just work to it in general, but not pay out to have it certified externally. These people know how to charge (£225 just for a paper copy of the cert!, and over £800 per day audit costs all added up). NB you may find it cheaper to buy the standard direct from ISO than BSI. Make sure they tell you ALL the costs in advance ie mileage etc

Chris

Someone else's management system isn't going to help you get ISO 45001.

To get the ball rolling you need to start with a gap analysis.  Write down each requirement of the standard and then whether (and if so how) you are already meeting it.  (Unless your company is truly shocking you will already be doing a lot of it.)  Then work out how to fill the gaps.

If you feel you are muddled about the requirements of the standard, then there are two ways to help clear this up.

1. Talk to your Quality Manager - I am supposing here that your business has ISO 9001?  ISO 45001 is so similar to ISO 9001 that if you have one, it's not so difficult to get the other and you can use a lot of the same documentation

2. Go on a course on implementing ISO 45001 (this is typically a two-day course and often run by certification providers)

Of course you can also ask specific questions here, or feel free to PM me with anything specific.

I can highly recommend the following book for anyone wanting to go own the ISO 45001 route:

Providing Safe & Healthy Workplace with ISO 45001 (implementation of OHSMS)

By Ramesh C Grover & Sachin Grover.

Regards

Allan 

Why would I want a book with someone elses ideas about implementing a standard in an organsisation the authors have not worked in?