Health and safety: standards and frameworks

This family covers the standards and regulations an organisation uses to keep people safe while they work: on the shop floor, at a client’s site, on the road, travelling abroad and under pressure at a desk. ISO 45001 is the anchor. It is the requirements standard for an occupational health and safety management system and the one an accredited certification body audits. Most of the others are written to work inside it rather than beside it: ISO 45002 gives general guidance on implementing ISO 45001, ISO 45003 gives guidance on managing psychosocial risk within it, and ISO 31030 gives guidance on managing the risk of work-related travel. ISO 39001 stands on its own as a certifiable management system for road traffic safety, which fleets, logistics providers and passenger transport operators often run alongside ISO 45001. Process safety management is different again: under the OSHA PSM standard in the United States or the Seveso Directive in the European Union, it is a legal duty for sites that hold hazardous substances above set thresholds, inspected by the authorities rather than certified. The request usually comes from outside the organisation: a main contractor’s prequalification, a client’s HSE questionnaire, a tender condition, an insurer or a regulator after an incident.

Sterling starts from the system you need to show, usually ISO 45001, and builds the rest into it instead of writing parallel manuals: one hazard register that includes driving, travel and psychosocial hazards, one legal register, and one set of worker consultation, incident investigation, internal audit and management review. For a road fleet, ISO 39001 adds its own road traffic safety objectives, targets and action plans; for a high-hazard site, process hazard analysis and management of change sit inside the same operational controls. You choose the support level: Design™, where Sterling develops the system and your team implements it under our expert advice and supervision, or Drive™, where Sterling designs and builds it under your approval, fully managed. Either way, Effivity is included at no additional cost to hold the registers, inspections, incidents and actions, with internal auditor training for your audit team, as applicable to your standard. Sterling does not certify; for ISO 45001 and ISO 39001 an accredited certification body audits and decides.

• ISO 45001ISO 45001 certification consulting to prevent work-related injury and ill health, with an OH&S system built with your people and audit-ready, in 60+ countries.
• ISO 45003ISO 45003 psychosocial risk consulting: manage work-related stress and wellbeing within your ISO 45001 system. ISO 45003 is guidance, not a certificate.
• ISO 39001ISO 39001 certification consulting to reduce death and serious injury from road traffic crashes you can influence, ready for an accredited certification audit.
• ISO 45002ISO 45002 guidance explained: how the ISO 45001 implementation guidelines work, why there is no certificate, and how Sterling applies them to your system.
• ISO 31030ISO 31030 travel risk management, put into practice: policy, destination risk assessment and emergency response for staff who travel. Guidance, no certificate.
• Process safety management (OSHA PSM / Seveso)Process safety management compliance and requirements for OSHA PSM and Seveso III sites: applicability, gap analysis and programme build. No certificate exists.

Each card leads to the page for that standard or regulation. Process safety management also appears under Construction, energy, oil & gas.