Businesses must prioritize Occupational Health and Safety to ensure a safe workplace. Hazards lead to losses through retirements, absences, and higher insurance costs. The ISO standard aids in enhancing employee safety, lowering risks, and fostering safer working environments.
What is ISO 45001?
ISO 45001 is an international standard that specifies requirements for an Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) management system. It provides guidelines for the implementation of occupational health and safety measures to enable an organization to proactively improve its OH&S performance in preventing injury and ill-health at the workplace. ISO 45001 applies to any organization regardless of its size, type, and nature.
Helps you in achieving the following:
- Identify workplace hazards and implement effective preventive controls
- Prevent injury and ill health among your workforce
- This leads to cost savings by reducing lost time through accidents
- Compliance with legislative requirements
- Improves safety culture
- Identifies areas for training and competency requirements
- Improves productivity
- Promotes corporate responsibility
Is ISO 45001 right for me?
You can demonstrate your commitment to worker welfare by implementing the ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health & Safety Management System. UNICERT has certified a wide range of organizations in different sectors of the world which led to significant reductions in serious incident levels and cost savings from lower lost time.
Key benefits of ISO 45001 CERTIFICATION
- Positions your business as industry leaders
- Increases trust
- Improves individual safety as well as organizational
- Increases return on investment (ROI)
- Regularly monitors policies and objectives for continual improvement
- Lowers insurance premiums
- Establishes systematic processes that take into account risks and opportunities, legal and other requirements
- Ensures workers take an active role in OH&S concerns
- Improves the ability to respond to regulatory compliance issues
- Reduces overall costs of incidents
- Reduces absenteeism and employee turnover rates
- Gives recognition for having achieved an international benchmark which impacts customers concerned about social responsibilities
Why should my organization implement ISO 45001:2018?
Organizations need to safeguard their workforce to demonstrate best business practice. In many instances, compliance to health & safety regulations are mandatory. ISO 45001:2018 provides a framework for a systematic approach to Occupational Health & Safety Management. It sets a standard platform for continuous improvement in health and safety measures and at the same time enhances an organization’s image as a socially responsible entity.
6 Benefits of ISO 45001
- Less accidents and illnesses
- Lower costs
- Stronger reputation
- More commitment
- Tailor made for every organization
- Asset for employer branding
