Recently the Safety Institute of Australia (SIA) published an opinion piece about the new international Standard for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems, ISO45001. The article professed to answer the question “what does ISO 45001 mean for OHS professionals?” Below is the SafetyAtWorkBlog’s response to that question based on the points raised by the SIA.
The SIA’s Roland Tan states that ISO45001
“provides an opportunity to benchmark with global best practice in managing OHS risks and initiate opportunities to improve OHS performance.”
Australian OHS professionals need to ask whether their clients need to benchmark globally. If not, how is ISO45001 relevant? It is not. You would be wasting everyone’s time.
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