Clause 6.1.3: Determination of legal requirements and other requirements
The organization sets up, runs and keeps processes that identify, and give it access to, current legal and other requirements that apply to its hazards, its OH&S risks and its OH&S management system; that establish how these requirements affect the organization and what must be communicated; and that make sure they are taken into account as the system is set up, run, kept and continually improved.
What clause 6.1.3 asks
The organization sets up, runs and keeps processes that identify, and give it access to, current legal and other requirements that apply to its hazards, its OH&S risks and its OH&S management system; that establish how these requirements affect the organization and what must be communicated; and that make sure they are taken into account as the system is set up, run, kept and continually improved. Documented information on legal and other requirements is kept, and it is updated whenever they change.
The register has to say how each requirement applies to this organization's hazards, not just that the instrument exists. Other requirements, such as customer clauses and union agreements, belong in the same list.
Draft 6.1.3 Determination of legal requirements and other requirements, from clause 6.1.3. The public draft contents keep the clause at 6.1.3. No substantive change is described in the summaries held.
Evidence for clause 6.1.3
An auditor will pick a requirement and ask which hazard it addresses, who receives it, and what changed when it was last amended.
- Legal and other requirementsLegal and other requirements register with applicability per requirement
- Legal and other requirementsSubscription or process for tracking regulatory change
- Legal and other requirementsEvidence of communication of requirements to affected roles
- Legal and other requirementsUpdate history of the register
Where clause 6.1.3 commonly fails
- Register lists statutes but not how each applies to the organization's hazards
- No process for detecting legal change
- Other requirements (customer, industry codes, union agreements) omitted
What to do about clause 6.1.3 before the revision
Add an applicability line to every register row, naming the hazard or activity it governs. Add your other requirements. Show the monitoring source and the date the last change was assessed. Test one recent legal change end to end.
What the record shows for clause 6.1.3
An auditor working on clause 6.1.3 will start with Legal and other requirements register with applicability per requirement. The failure this record sees most often is Register lists statutes but not how each applies to the organization's hazards. Both are carried into the kit as row 13, with an owner field and a dated action.
Read across from clause 6.1.3
Read the next clause in the group, or open the full index. The revision map shows the draft structure.
Source for clause 6.1.3: ISO 45001:2018, clause 6.1.3, 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.