Clause 10.1: General
Drawing on what performance evaluation shows, the organization identifies opportunities to improve and takes the actions needed for its OH&S management system to deliver what it is meant to deliver..
What clause 10.1 asks
Drawing on what performance evaluation shows, the organization identifies opportunities to improve and takes the actions needed for its OH&S management system to deliver what it is meant to deliver.
Improvement is a deliberate act, not the residue of fixing findings. The clause asks the organization to identify opportunities from performance evaluation and to take the actions that make the system deliver more.
Draft 10.1 Continual improvement, from clause 10.1. The draft consolidates the 2018 10.1 General and 10.3 Continual improvement into a single 10.1. The public summaries report that the text is reduced but the intent is unchanged.
The draft treatment of clause 10.1 has its own page: 10.1 Continual improvement.
Evidence for clause 10.1
An auditor will ask for an improvement that was not required by a finding, and for the measure that shows it worked.
- ImprovementImprovement register drawing on audits, reviews, incidents and performance data
- ImprovementEvidence actions implemented
Where clause 10.1 commonly fails
- Improvement limited to closing audit findings
What to do about clause 10.1 before the revision
Keep an improvement register fed by audits, reviews, incidents and performance data. Add one improvement that no finding required. Measure the effect. Communicate the result to workers.
What the record shows for clause 10.1
An auditor working on clause 10.1 will start with Improvement register drawing on audits, reviews, incidents and performance data. The failure this record sees most often is Improvement limited to closing audit findings. Both are carried into the kit as row 38, with an owner field and a dated action.
Read across from clause 10.1
Read the next clause in the group, or open the full index. The revision map shows the draft structure.
Source for clause 10.1: ISO 45001:2018, clause 10.1, retrieved 18 October 2026. The draft note rests on the public DIS contents and the two named summaries; the requirement, evidence and gaps are written from the held clause record. Every source.