The organization shall determine external and internal issues that are relevant to its purpose and that affect its ability to achieve the intended outcomes of its OH&S management system.

• Understanding the organization and its context - 4.1

  The organization shall determine external and internal issues that are relevant to its purpose and that affect its ability to achieve the intended outcomes of its OH&S management system.

• Understanding the needs and expectations of workers and other interested parties - 4.2

  The organization shall determine: a) other interested parties; in addition to workers; that are relevant to the OH&S MS; b) the relevant needs and expectations (i.e. requirements) of workers and other interested parties; c) which of these needs and expectations are; or could become; legal requirements and other requirements.

• Determining the scope of the OH&S management system - 4.3

  The organization shall determine the boundaries and applicability of the OH&S MS to establish its scope. The scope shall be available as documented information.

• OH&S management system - 4.4

  The organization shall establish; implement; maintain and continually improve an OH&S management system; including the processes needed and their interactions; in accordance with the requirements of this document.

Top management shall demonstrate leadership and commitment with respect to the OH&S management system and promote worker participation.

• Leadership and commitment - 5.1

  Top management shall demonstrate leadership and commitment by: a) taking overall responsibility and accountability for the prevention of work-related injury and ill health; b) ensuring OH&S policy and objectives are established; c) ensuring integration of OH&S MS into business processes; d) ensuring resources; e) communicating importance; f) ensuring OH&S MS achieves outcomes; g) directing/supporting persons; h) ensuring/promoting continual improvement; i) supporting other management roles; j) developing a culture supporting OH&S MS; k) protecting workers from reprisals; l) ensuring consultation/participation of workers.

• OH&S Policy - 5.2

  Top management shall establish; implement and maintain an OH&S policy that: a) includes a commitment to provide safe and healthy working conditions for the prevention of work-related injury and ill health and is appropriate to the purpose; size and context of the organization and to the specific nature of its OH&S risks and OH&S opportunities; b) provides a framework for setting OH&S objectives; c) includes a commitment to fulfil legal requirements and other requirements; d) includes a commitment to eliminate hazards and reduce OH&S risks; e) includes a commitment to continual improvement of the OH&S MS; f) includes a commitment to consultation and participation of workers; and; where they exist; workers’ representatives.

• Organizational roles; responsibilities and authorities - 5.3

  Top management shall ensure responsibilities and authorities for relevant roles within the OH&S MS are assigned and communicated at all levels within the organization and maintained as documented information. Workers at each level of the organization shall assume responsibility for those aspects of the OH&S MS over which they have control.

• Consultation and participation of workers - 5.4

  The organization shall establish; implement and maintain a process(es) for consultation and participation of workers at all applicable levels and functions; and; where they exist; workers’ representatives; in the development; planning; implementation; performance evaluation and actions for improvement of the OH&S MS.

When planning for the OH&S management system; the organization shall consider the issues referred to in 4.1 (context); the requirements referred to in 4.2 (interested parties) and 4.3 (scope) and determine the risks and opportunities that need to be addressed.

• Actions to address risks and opportunities - 6.1

  This includes general planning (6.1.1); hazard identification and assessment of risks and opportunities (6.1.2); determination of legal requirements and other requirements (6.1.3); and planning action (6.1.4).

• OH&S objectives and planning to achieve them - 6.2

  The organization shall establish OH&S objectives at relevant functions and levels. Objectives shall be: consistent with OH&S policy; measurable; take into account applicable requirements; results of risk/opportunity assessment; results of consultation; monitored; communicated; and updated. Planning to achieve OH&S objectives involves determining what will be done; resources; responsibilities; timelines; and how results will be evaluated.

The organization shall determine and provide the resources needed for the establishment; implementation; maintenance and continual improvement of the OH&S management system.

• Resources - 7.1

  The organization shall determine and provide the resources needed for the establishment; implementation; maintenance and continual improvement of the OH&S MS.

• Competence - 7.2

  The organization shall: a) determine the necessary competence of workers that affects or can affect its OH&S performance; b) ensure that workers are competent on the basis of appropriate education; training or experience; c) where applicable; take actions to acquire and maintain the necessary competence; and evaluate the effectiveness of the actions taken; d) retain appropriate documented information as evidence of competence.

• Awareness - 7.3

  Workers shall be made aware of: a) OH&S policy and objectives; b) their contribution to OH&S MS effectiveness; c) implications of not conforming; d) incidents and outcomes of investigations relevant to them; e) hazards; OH&S risks and actions determined relevant to them; f) the ability to remove themselves from work situations that they consider present an imminent and serious danger to their life or health; as well as the arrangements for protecting them from undue consequences for doing so.

• Communication - 7.4

  The organization shall establish; implement and maintain the process(es) it needs for internal and external communication relevant to the OH&S MS.

• Documented information - 7.5

  The OH&S MS shall include: a) documented information required by this document; b) documented information determined by the organization as being necessary for the effectiveness of the OH&S MS. This clause also covers creating; updating and control of documented information.

The organization shall plan; implement; control and maintain the processes needed to meet requirements of the OH&S management system; and to implement the actions determined in Clause 6.

• Operational planning and control - 8.1

  This includes general planning (8.1.1); eliminating hazards and reducing OH&S risks (8.1.2 using hierarchy of controls); management of change (8.1.3); procurement (8.1.4 covering contractors and outsourcing).

• Emergency preparedness and response - 8.2

  The organization shall establish; implement and maintain a process(es) needed to prepare for and to respond to potential emergency situations; as identified in 6.1.2.1.

The organization shall monitor; measure; analyse and evaluate its OH&S performance.

• Monitoring; measurement; analysis and performance evaluation - 9.1

  The organization shall determine what needs to be monitored and measured (including legal/other requirements; operational controls; OH&S objectives; risks and opportunities); methods; criteria against which OH&S performance is evaluated; when it's performed; when results are analysed/evaluated/communicated. This includes evaluation of compliance with legal and other requirements.

• Internal audit - 9.2

  The organization shall conduct internal audits at planned intervals to provide information on whether the OH&S MS: a) conforms to the organization’s own requirements and this document's requirements; b) is effectively implemented and maintained.

• Management review - 9.3

  Top management shall review the organization’s OH&S MS at planned intervals; to ensure its continuing suitability; adequacy and effectiveness.

The organization shall determine opportunities for improvement (see 9.1; 9.2 and 9.3) and implement necessary actions to achieve the intended outcomes of the OH&S management system.

• General - 10.1

  The organization shall determine opportunities for improvement and implement actions to achieve the intended outcomes of the OH&S MS.

• Incident; nonconformity and corrective action - 10.2

  When an incident or nonconformity occurs; the organization shall: a) react in a timely manner; b) evaluate; with the participation of workers and involvement of other relevant interested parties; the need for corrective action to eliminate the root cause(s); c) implement any action needed; d) review the effectiveness of any corrective action taken; e) make changes to the OH&S MS; if necessary.

• Continual improvement - 10.3

  The organization shall continually improve the suitability; adequacy and effectiveness of the OH&S MS by: a) enhancing OH&S performance; b) promoting a culture that supports the OH&S MS; c) promoting the participation of workers in implementing actions for the continual improvement of the OH&S MS; d) communicating the relevant results of continual improvement to workers; and; where they exist; workers’ representatives; e) maintaining and retaining documented information as evidence of continual improvement.