ISO 45001, inspired by the well-known OHSAS 18001, is designed to help companies and organizations around the world ensure the health and safety of the people who work for them. ISO 45001 currently is at the committee draft stage of development, the first consultation phase. During this stage, the countries (ISO members) that have chosen to participate in the standard’s development have two months to form a national position on the draft and comment on it.
Many experts in occupational health and safety have lobbied for an ISO standard that would help integrate occupational safety and health into sustainability, quality and management systems efforts.
Kathy A. Seabrook, CSP, CFIOSH, EurOSHM, recently spoke about supply chain accountability, the market economy, sustainability/corporate social responsibility (CSR), materiality reporting and the ISO 45001 management system standard for workplace safety and health at the Standards and the Global Supply Chain event hosted by ANSI.
“Risk is the common thread connecting supply chain accountability, the market economy, sustainability, materiality reporting and ISO 45001,” said Seabrook, adding, “ll of these risks can have an impact public policy. This interconnectedness of risk impacts society, the economy and trade, an industry, an organization, its reputation and brand, its shareholders, business processes, product and service delivery capability, its workers and its supply chain.
Read more at Connecting the Dots: ISO 45001, the Supply Chain and Risk
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