HKQAA Seminar on ISO/FDIS 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System

Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency (HKQAA) organized the seminar named “ISO/FDIS 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System” on 18^th Jan 2018. The ISO 45001 OHSMS Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) was released on 30^th Nov 2017 and it was now set for the new standard to be published in the first quarter of 2018.  The seminar aimed to discuss how the “migration” from OHSAS 18001 to ISO 45001 and the major difference between these two standards.  Before the seminar, I took a photo with Dr. Nigel Croft my old quality friend who visited Hong Kong every year for HKQAA symposium and worked as guest speaker for different standards revision in specific years (See reference).

Dr. Nigel Croft (Chairman, ISO/TC 176/SC 2 (Quality Systems); Member, ISO Joint Technical Coordination Group (JTCG) and Associate Technical Director, HKQAA) was the guest speaker and his topic named “Introduction to the new ISO 45001 Occupational Health & Safety Management System Standard”.  In the beginning, he briefed the ISO mission that supported sustainable and equitable economic growth promote innovation and protect health, safety and the environment.  

He pointed out two of 17 goals of WHO sustainable development related to Quality, Safety and Environment.  Nigel added that dreaming of a sustainable future included “Economic Growth”, “Environmental Integrity” and “Social Responsibility”. 

But simply dreaming was not enough, Nigel quoted Dr. W. Edwards Deming that there should be a method to achieve an aim.  The answer was “Management System” which was result-oriented. He emphasized that there was a “documented system” but not “system of documents”!  

New ISO 45001 puts more emphasis on managing processes rather than written procedures.  Management System should not be “carved in stone” but allow flexibility and agility.  There were 3 core concepts including “Process understanding”, “Risk-based thinking” and “PDCA cycle”. 

Then Nigel used some construction examples to demonstrate their processes relationship among Quality, Environment, OH&S and Anti-bribery.  The relevant level separated into High, Medium and Low.  

The new ISO 45001 adopted ISO Directives Part 1 “Annex SL” High Level Structure that was easier for integration of different management systems.  Then Nigel briefed the development of OHSAS 18001 to ISO 45001 HSMS.  It was fail of BS 8750 in 1999 because of regulatory bodies concern.  Then BS 8800 guidance issued and separated into two approaches.  One was like ISO 14001 and the other followed UK regulation approach.  Finally, certification bodies adopted BS 8800 guidance and developed OHSAS 18001 for certificate.  Now it needed to change to ISO 45001 but some regulations were adopted OHSAS 18001 that might be changed.

Then Nigel briefed some key features of ISO 45001 below.

-          Minimize the risk of harm to workers

-          Provide a platform for continual improvement in OH&S performance

-          Integrated OH&S into organization business management system

-          Enhancing leadership involvement and worker participation

-          Risk-based thinking for analysis of hazards

-          Need to prevent and recognize the cause of ill-health and injuries (included immediate and longer term impacts)

The model of FDIS 45001 was found similar to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015.

Nigel explained the definition of worker that “Person performing work or work-related activities that are under the control of the organization”.  It covered a wide scope included HKQAA auditors performing an audit in your premises. Then he also raised some key success factors to implement ISO 45001.  

The whole clause structure of ISO 45001 was showed as following diagram using PDCA stages to present. ISO 45001 concentrated on the need to manage processes, rather than explicitly requiring “documented procedures”.  In Annex A.7.5 – “It is important to keep the complexity of the documented information at the minimum level possible to ensure effectiveness, efficiency and simplicity at the same time”.  

Finally, Nigel reviewed the comparison between FDIS 45001 and OHSAS 18001 in high-level clauses with comments.  

Lastly, he mentioned the ballot on FDIS closed on 25^th Jan 2018 and scheduled for publication in Mar/Apr 2018.  There had a 3-year migration period after publication of standard.  He concluded that ISO aligned its portfolio of management system standards to facilitate integration and supporting sustainable development.  

Reference:

ISO - http://www.iso.org/iso/home.html

HKQAA - http://www.hkqaa.org/en_index.php

HKSQ - http://www.hksq.org/

Previous Dr. Nigel Croft seminar in Hong Kong (apart from HKQAA Symposium):

20151203: HKQAA Seminar on “A New Era of Management System Standard - ISO 9001:2015” - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/12/hkqaa-seminar-on-new-era-of-management.html

20151125: ITC & HKCTC Conference on ISO 9001:2015 - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/11/itc-hkctc-conference-on-iso-90012015.html

20151123: ISO/TC 176 Meeting in Hong Kong – Welcome Reception - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/11/isotc-176-meeting-in-hong-kong-welcome.html

20150710: HKQAA Seminar on the Next Generation of Management System Standards (ISO 9001:2015) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/07/hkqaa-seminar-on-next-generation-of.html

20141201: HKQAA Seminar on ISO 9001 & ISO 14001 Revisions - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2014/12/hkqaa-seminar-on-iso-9001-iso-14001.html

20120520: HKQAA Seminar on the next version of ISO 9001:2015 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2012/05/hkqaa-seminar-on-next-version-of-iso.html  

20080911: ISO 9001:2008 Implementation Seminar - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2008/09/iso-90012008-implementation-seminar.html