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4 | Context of the Organization | Establish the internal and external factors that affect the OHS management system and define its scope. | Understand the organization and its context; understand needs and expectations of workers and other interested parties; determine the scope of the OHS management system; establish maintain and continually improve the OHS management system. | Plan |
4.1 | Understanding the Organization and Its Context | Identify internal and external issues relevant to the organization's purpose that affect the OHS management system. | Determine external issues (legal regulatory societal economic) and internal issues (culture processes capabilities) relevant to OHS outcomes. | Plan |
4.2 | Understanding the Needs and Expectations of Workers and Other Interested Parties | Identify interested parties beyond the workforce and understand their relevant requirements. | Identify workers and other interested parties relevant to the OHS management system; determine their relevant needs and expectations; determine which of these are or could become legal and other requirements. | Plan |
4.3 | Determining the Scope of the OHS Management System | Define the boundaries and applicability of the OHS management system. | Consider the external and internal issues from 4.1; the requirements from 4.2; the planned or performed work-related activities. The scope must be available as documented information. | Plan |
4.4 | OHS Management System | Establish implement maintain and continually improve the OHS management system. | Establish an OHS management system including the processes needed and their interactions in accordance with the requirements of the standard. | Plan |
5 | Leadership and Worker Participation | Demonstrate top management leadership commitment and enable worker participation in the OHS management system. | Top management must lead by example; workers must be able to participate in hazard identification and risk assessment; leadership accountability is explicit. | Plan |
5.1 | Leadership and Commitment | Top management must take accountability for the OHS management system. | Top management must demonstrate leadership and commitment by taking overall responsibility; ensuring OHS policy and objectives are established; integrating OHS into business processes; providing resources; communicating importance of OHS; supporting other management roles. | Plan |
5.2 | OHS Policy | Establish a documented OHS policy signed by top management. | The OHS policy must include commitments to provide safe and healthy working conditions; to eliminate hazards and reduce OHS risks; to fulfill legal and other requirements; to consult and participate workers; to continually improve. Policy must be available as documented information. | Plan |
5.3 | Organizational Roles Responsibilities and Authorities | Assign and communicate OHS responsibilities and authorities. | Top management must assign and communicate responsibility and authority for ensuring the OHS management system conforms to requirements and for reporting on OHS performance to top management. | Plan |
5.4 | Consultation and Participation of Workers | Ensure workers at all levels can participate in the development and improvement of the OHS management system. | Establish processes for consultation and participation of workers and workers' representatives; remove barriers to participation; consult non-managerial workers on hazard identification risk assessment and incident investigations; consult workers on development of OHS policy and objectives. | Plan |
6 | Planning | Plan for hazards risks opportunities and actions to achieve OHS objectives. | Identify hazards assess risks identify legal and other requirements; plan actions to address risks and opportunities and OHS objectives. | Plan |
6.1 | Actions to Address Risks and Opportunities | Determine and address OHS risks and opportunities to prevent undesired outcomes and achieve improvement. | Identify hazards; assess OHS risks and other risks; assess OHS opportunities and other opportunities; determine legal and other requirements; plan actions to address these including emergency preparedness. | Plan |
6.1.1 | General (Risks and Opportunities) | Establish processes to determine and address risks and opportunities. | Consider the issues from 4.1; the requirements from 4.2; the scope from 4.3. Determine risks and opportunities that need to be addressed to give assurance of intended outcomes and prevent or reduce undesired effects. | Plan |
6.1.2 | Hazard Identification and Assessment of Risks and Opportunities | Proactively identify hazards and evaluate associated OHS risks. | Establish implement and maintain processes for hazard identification (ongoing and proactive); assessment of OHS risks; assessment of other risks to the OHS management system; assessment of OHS opportunities and other opportunities. Consider work organization social factors leadership and culture. | Plan |
6.1.3 | Determination of Legal Requirements and Other Requirements | Identify all applicable legal and other OHS requirements. | Establish implement and maintain processes to determine and have access to legal requirements and other requirements applicable to OHS hazards; determine how requirements apply; take into account these requirements when establishing implementing maintaining and improving the OHS management system. | Plan |
6.1.4 | Planning Action | Plan actions to address identified risks opportunities and legal requirements. | Plan actions to address OHS risks and opportunities; legal and other requirements; emergency preparedness. Plan how to integrate and implement actions into OHS management system processes; evaluate effectiveness of actions. | Plan |
6.2 | OHS Objectives and Planning to Achieve Them | Set measurable OHS objectives consistent with OHS policy and plan how to achieve them. | Establish OHS objectives at relevant functions levels and processes; objectives must be consistent with OHS policy; take into account applicable requirements and results of risk assessment; be measurable; be monitored; be communicated; be updated as appropriate. Retain documented information on OHS objectives. | Plan |
7 | Support | Provide resources competence awareness communication and documented information to support the OHS management system. | Determine and provide resources including human infrastructure work environment; ensure competence; promote awareness; establish communication processes; control documented information. | Do |
7.1 | Resources | Determine and provide resources needed for the OHS management system. | Provide the human resources infrastructure technology and financial resources needed to establish implement maintain and continually improve the OHS management system. | Do |
7.2 | Competence | Ensure workers are competent for OHS-affecting tasks. | Determine the necessary competence of workers that affects OHS performance; ensure workers are competent on the basis of education training or experience; take actions to acquire necessary competence and evaluate effectiveness; retain documented information as evidence of competence. | Do |
7.3 | Awareness | Ensure all workers are aware of OHS policy hazards risks and their contribution. | Workers must be aware of the OHS policy and OHS objectives; their contribution to the effectiveness of the OHS management system; implications of not conforming to OHS management system requirements; hazards and OHS risks relevant to them; ability to remove themselves from work situations presenting imminent and seriou... | Do |
7.4 | Communication | Establish processes for internal and external OHS communication. | Determine what to communicate; when to communicate; with whom to communicate; how to communicate. Ensure communication processes take into account diversity aspects (language literacy disability). Retain documented information as evidence of communications. | Do |
7.5 | Documented Information | Maintain and control documented information required by the standard and determined necessary. | OHS management system documented information must include that required by the standard and that determined necessary for effectiveness. Creating and updating: ensure appropriate identification description format and media; review and approval. Control of documented information: available and suitable for use; adequate... | Do |
8 | Operation | Implement and control processes to meet OHS requirements and manage hazards. | Plan implement control and review operational processes; eliminate hazards reduce risks; manage change; control contractors and procurement; prepare for emergency. | Do |
8.1 | Operational Planning and Control | Establish implement and maintain processes to meet OHS management system requirements. | Establish implement and maintain planned processes including elimination of hazards using the hierarchy of controls (elimination substitution engineering controls administrative controls PPE); management of change; outsourcing; procurement; contractors. | Do |
8.2 | Emergency Preparedness and Response | Identify potential emergency situations and plan how to respond. | Establish implement and maintain processes to prepare for and respond to potential emergency situations; plan emergency response actions; provide training for planned response; periodically test and exercise response capability; review and revise processes post-incident; communicate relevant information to interested p... | Do |
9 | Performance Evaluation | Monitor measure analyse and evaluate OHS performance. | Monitor measure analyse and evaluate OHS performance; conduct internal audit; conduct management review. | Check |
9.1 | Monitoring Measurement Analysis and Performance Evaluation | Systematically monitor and measure OHS performance. | Determine what to monitor and measure; the methods for monitoring measurement analysis and performance evaluation; criteria against which performance is to be evaluated; when to monitor and measure; when to analyse evaluate and communicate results. Retain documented information as evidence of results. | Check |
9.2 | Internal Audit | Conduct periodic internal audits to assess OHS management system conformity. | Establish implement and maintain an audit programme covering frequency methods responsibilities planning requirements and reporting. Internal audits must determine whether the OHS management system conforms to requirements and is effectively implemented and maintained. Report audit results to management. Retain documen... | Check |
9.3 | Management Review | Top management must review the OHS management system at planned intervals. | Management review must consider: status of actions from previous reviews; changes in external and internal issues; OHS performance trends including incidents nonconformities corrective actions and audit results; consultation and participation of workers; relevant communication from interested parties; opportunities for... | Check |
10 | Improvement | Determine and implement opportunities for continual improvement. | Address incidents nonconformities and corrective actions; pursue continual improvement of OHS performance. | Act |
10.1 | General (Improvement) | Establish opportunities for continual improvement and implement appropriate actions. | Determine and select opportunities for improvement and implement necessary actions to achieve intended outcomes of the OHS management system. | Act |
10.2 | Incident Nonconformity and Corrective Action | Investigate incidents and nonconformities and implement corrective actions. | Establish implement and maintain processes for reporting investigating and taking action on incidents and nonconformities. React in a timely manner; review effectiveness of corrective action. Determine root causes; determine if similar incidents or nonconformities exist or could occur; implement corrective actions prop... | Act |
10.3 | Continual Improvement | Continuously improve the suitability adequacy and effectiveness of the OHS management system. | Continually improve the OHS management system by enhancing OHS performance; promoting a culture that supports the OHS management system; promoting worker participation; communicating relevant results of continual improvement to workers. Retain documented information as evidence of continual improvement. | Act |
ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety Management System — Clause Reference 2026
Structured reference of ISO 45001:2018 clauses 4–10, mapping each clause to its intent, key requirements, and PDCA phase for OHS management systems.
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- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20446739
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SmartQHSE Ltd (2026). ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety Management System — Clause Reference 2026 [dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20446739
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