UNI ISO 45001 Certification - Health and safety

Health and safety on workplaces are primary interests for the majority of companies, but despite of this there are continually accidents. The UNI ISO 45001 “ Management Systems for health and safety on workplaces Requisites and manual” defines the minimal standards of good practice for the protection of workers in all over the world.

GIORDANO d.o.o, society of Istituto Giordano SpA is a Certification Entity ISO 45001 accredited* SA – Slovenska Akreditacija.

UNI ISO 45001 regulation can represent an useful instrument available to companies for the purpose of managing and documenting efficiently many activities that the theme of prevention and protection of health and safety on workplaces requests.

This regulation is adapted to any type of organization, independently of sizes, of belonging sector and nature of its activities. It can be integrated into management processes that already exist: infact it adopts the same “high level structure” (HLS) of other regulations ISO on management systems like UNI EN ISO 9001 (quality management) and UNI EN ISO 14001 (environmental management).

UNI ISO 45001 Certification: Why a business should obtain it?
 

• better prevention and reduction in the number of incidents in the workplace;
• greater control over the workplace;
• reduction in direct and indirect costs due to downtime following incidents;
• demonstration of improved working conditions for staff;
• integration of prevention policy with production policy;
• improved corporate image.

HOW PROCEED

If the intention is to apply UNI ISO 45001, here are some tips to start:

• Do an analysis of the organization contest that reguards health and safety on workplaces (for example, interested parts) just as the internal and external factors that can have an impact on activities;
• Establish the management system application perimeter, considering the goals that you want to reach;
• Determine politics and health and safety goals;
• Determine realization time of management system and plan how reaching the goal;
• Determine the gaps in terms of knowledges and/or resources that is necessary to fill before the regulation application.