Occupational health and safety management system

Designation Number:
CAN/CSA-ISO 45001
Standard Type:
National Standard of Canada - Adoption of International Standard
Standard Development Activity:
New Standard
Status:
Proceeding to development
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Scope:

This Standard specifies requirements for an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system, with guidance for its use, to enable an organization to proactively improve its OH&S performance in preventing injury and ill-health.

This Standard is intended to be applicable to any organization regardless of its size, type and nature. All of its requirements are intended to be integrated into an organization’s own management process.

 

Project need:

To improve occupational health and safety performance of Canadian organizations through the application of internally-accepted management system practices.

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