1. ISO 45001 Current status of development
June 2016

2. 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

3. 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: participating countries,(increase of 6 since Sept 2015) observer countries (decrease of 2) - 19 liaison members.

4. This presentation
Provides an overview, following the meeting of PC283 in Toronto, of the current state of development of ISO 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 progresses

5. 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

6. Review of progress since Geneva meeting
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 and determine the next steps.

7. 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

8. Options considered Prepare a second DIS (DIS 2)
Publish the draft as a Technical Specification (TS) (note that a vote for moving to TS only needed 66% in favour)
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.

9. Key issues addressed from the comments
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 and deviation from Annex SL
The term “worker” and its definition
Clause 5.4 on Participation and Consultation

10. 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

11. 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).

12. Other issues
NWIP has been approved for the development of ISO/IEC TS 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

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