Singapore Standard (SS) ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems

SS ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems provides a framework to assist organisations in improving employee safety, in reducing workplace risks, and in creating better, safer working conditions at the workplace.

This Standard will replace SS 506, Part 1 Occupational safety and health (OSH) management systems which had been adopted by more than 500 organisations in Singapore. It also replaces OHSAS 18001. Similar to SS 506 Part 1, SS ISO 45001 will be recognised as a pathway for direct entry into the WSH Council’s bizSAFE Programme, up to the level of bizSAFE Star. This new Standard will also be gradually applied to the industry in other areas.

ISO 45001 adopts the same format as ISO9000 and ISO 14000, hence making it easy to establish an integrated QEHS Management System.

Contents of the Management System:

4              Context of the organization

4.1          Understanding the organisation and its context

4.2          Understanding the needs and expectations of workers and other interested parties
4.3          Determine the scope of the OHSMS
4.4          Occupational Health and Safety Management System

5              Leadership and worker participation

5.1          Leadership and commitment
5.2          OHS Policy
5.3          Organizational role, responsibilities and authorities
5.4          Consultation and participation of workers

6              Planning

6.1          Actions to address risks and opportunities
6.1.1      General
6.1.2      Hazards identification and assessment of risks and opportunities
6.1.3      Determination of legal requirements and other requirements
6.1.4      Planning action

6.2          OHS objectives and planning to achieve them

6.2.1      OHS objectives
6.2.2      Planning actions to achieve OHS objectives

7              Support

7.1          Resources
7.2          Competence
7.3          Awareness
7.4          Communication
7.4.1      General
7.4.2      Internal communication
7.4.3      External Communication
7.5          Documented information
7.5.1      General
7.5.2      Creating and updating
7.5.3      Control of documented information

8              Operation

8.1          Operational planning and control
8.1.1      General
8.1.2      Eliminating hazards and reducing OH&S risks
8.1.3      Management of change
8.1.4      Procurement
8.2          Emergency preparedness and response

9              Performance evaluation

9.1          Monitoring, measurement, analysis and performance evaluation
9.1.1      General
9.1.2      Evaluation of compliance
9.2          Internal audit
9.2.1      General
9.2.2      Internal audit programme
9.3          Management review

10           Improvement

10.1        General
10.2        Incident, nonconformity and corrective action
10.3        Continual improvement