This document provides an overview of the current status of the development of ISO 45001 Occupational health and safety management systems. It summarizes that the first draft received 71% approval, insufficient for publication. Key issues from comments included legal requirements, terminology, and clause structures. A second draft will be prepared to address comments, with the goal of publication by November if an additional approval ballot is held, or by June without further ballots. Timelines and options considered were also outlined.

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ISO/PC 283
ISO 45001
Current status of
development
June 2016

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Disclaimers
 Verbal statements made by the presenter may
represent personal opinions and/or
interpretations
 The presentation includes information related to
the drafting process up to and including
June 2016

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International Organization for
Standardization (ISO)
 ISO’s Project Committee (PC) No. 283 (ISO/PC 283) is
responsible for the development of ISO 45001
 ISO/PC 283’s membership currently includes:
- 65 participating countries,(increase of 6 since Sept 2015)
- 13 observer countries (decrease of 2)
- 19 liaison members.

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This presentation
 Provides an overview, following the meeting of PC283 in
Toronto, of the current state of development of ISO
45001 Occupational health and safety management
systems - Requirements with guidance for use
 It is being developed by ISO/PC 283 for use by its
members for communication purposes
 It will be updated as the development of ISO 45001
progresses

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Key perspectives
This new standard is being developed to:
 Help organizations minimize the risk of harm to all those
working on its behalf (defined as “workers” within the
standard)
 Provide a platform for continual improvement in
occupational health and safety performance
 Integrate OH&S within an organization’s overall business
management system and processes

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PC meeting:
 The meeting was jointly hosted in Toronto by
Standards Council of Canada (SCC), the
American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), the
CSA Group, and the national mirror committees to
PC283 for the USA (the US TAG for ISO/PC283)
and Canada (the SMC for ISO/PC 283) to review
the outcome of voting and comments on ISO DIS
45001 and determine the next steps.
Review of progress since Geneva meeting

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Result of ballot on ISODIS 45001
 The ballot closed on 12th May 2016
 71% voted in favour but this was insufficient to secure
the necessary vote to proceed to FDIS
 There were nearly 3000 comments

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Options considered
1. Prepare a second DIS (DIS 2)
2. Publish the draft as a Technical Specification (TS)
(note that a vote for moving to TS only needed 66% in favour)
3. Going back a stage to Committee Draft was not
considered a viable option
It was decided to prepare DIS2 to address the volume of
comments and the issues raised.

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There were a number of key issues addressed including:
 The “fulfilment of” or “compliance with”, etc., legal
requirements
 Editing Notes to avoid the inclusion of requirements
 Editing of the term “consultation” due to its definition
 Alignment with ISO 14001 and deviation from Annex SL
 The term “worker” and its definition
 Clause 5.4 on Participation and Consultation
Key issues addressed from the comments

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Key issues addressed from the comments (2)
 Structure of Clause 6
 Training versus competence
 The definition of “hazard”
 A bullet in 7.3 to add requirement for workers to be
allowed to remove themselves from imminent danger

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The next steps
 Task Group established to review the remaining
comments and make recommendations on disposition
and provide draft
 Full PC 283/WG1 meeting to be held in October to
produce text for DIS 2.
 Application made to ISO for extension of project to
completion by 9 months
Note: to go for an FDIS after the DIS2 would exceed the extended timeline
for this project and would require agreement of the ISO/TMB for any further
extension (see last slide).

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Other issues
 NWIP has been approved for the development of
ISO/IEC TS 17021-10 by ISO/CASCO, though a joint
working group (no.48) with PC 283.
 Draft New Work Item Proposal (NWIP) on psychosocial
risk was presented and a webinar will be held shortly

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Possible timelines to publication
Event DIS2,
No FDIS
DIS2,
with FDIS
2nd meeting in October Oct Oct
1 month editing/preparing DIS2 Nov Nov
2 month translation period Dec/Jan Dec/Jan
2 month DIS 2 ballot Feb/Mar Feb/Mar
1.5 month before the next PC283 meeting May May
1 month editing and preparing the text for
publication (or for FDIS)
June June
FDIS
(2 month translation for FDIS; 2 month
FDIS ballot; 1 month preparing text for
publication)
Nov