ISO 45001:2018 After ISO 9001:2015 QMS

This model is intended for use as a template in developing your Manual for the integration of the new ISO 45001:2018 Occupational health and safety management system in the existing ISO 9001:2015 Quality management system. The integration / implementation approach applies for the management systems where requirements are described in the standards:

• ISO 9001:2015          Quality Management Systems – Requirements with Guidance for use.
• ISO 45001:2018          Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems – Requirements with guidance for use.

The above Management Systems are compatible with each other and have common requirements that are described in clause 4 through clause 10 and detailed in:

• Clause 4                      Context of the organization
• Clause 5                      Leadership (and Leadership and worker participation)
• Clause 6                      Planning
• Clause 7                      Support
• Clause 8                      Operation
• Clause 9                      Performance evaluation
• Clause 10                    Improvement

You have your ISO 9001 QMS in place and now have the objective of integrating the ISO 45001 OH&S in one integrated management system. The good news is that since you are familiar with formal management systems, this initiative will be relatively straightforward. In this template, instructions/ suggestions are outlined in brown text to provide examples of typical upgrades. Manual and other documentation upgrade instructions are included following the last section R of the manual to cover the upgraded QMS requirements, the integrated QMS-OHS common requirements and the new health and safety requirements of ISO 45001:2018. In addition, the blue text needs to be replaced with your information where for example, use your company name in the spot indicated as “Your Company”. Consider the text in brown as ISO 45001 “additions” to the documentation and treat the text in blue as “revisions” or information that is specific to your company. Text in black italics represents other general instructions for the particular section.