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[[Category:Legislation & Policy]]
[[ISO 45001]] is the international standard that specifies the requirements for an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system, with guidance for its use to enable an organisation to proactively improve its OH&S performance in preventing injury and ill health.

[[ISO 45001]] focuses on identifying and controlling risks rather than hazards, as is currently required in [[OHSAS 18001]]. [[ISO 45001]] requires organisations to consider how suppliers and contractors are managing their risks. In [[ISO 45001]] some fundamental concepts are changed like the terms risk, worker and workforce.

Those organisations that are still operating under [[OHSAS 18001]] for the management of their occupational health and safety framework have until March 2021 to transition and upgrade to [[ISO 45001]].