Clause 7.3: Awareness
Workers are made aware of: the OH&S policy and objectives; how they contribute to an effective system, including what better OH&S performance brings; what can follow, and what it can mean, if requirements are not met; incidents, and the findings of investigations, that concern them; the hazards, OH&S risks and decided actions that concern them; and that they are able to remove themselves from a work situation they believe poses serious and imminent danger, together with the arrangements that shield them from unfair consequences for doing so..
What clause 7.3 asks
Workers are made aware of: the OH&S policy and objectives; how they contribute to an effective system, including what better OH&S performance brings; what can follow, and what it can mean, if requirements are not met; incidents, and the findings of investigations, that concern them; the hazards, OH&S risks and decided actions that concern them; and that they are able to remove themselves from a work situation they believe poses serious and imminent danger, together with the arrangements that shield them from unfair consequences for doing so.
Awareness is what a worker can act on without looking it up. The clause includes the right to remove yourself from serious and imminent danger and the protection that makes the right real.
Draft 7.3 Awareness, from clause 7.3. The public summaries report an extended list of what workers must be aware of, including how to report incidents and hazards and the protection against pressure, intimidation and reprisal when they do.
Evidence for clause 7.3
An auditor will ask a worker what they would do about an unsafe task, and whether they believe they would be supported.
- AwarenessInduction and awareness material covering every listed item
- AwarenessCommunication of incident outcomes to relevant workers
- AwarenessDocumented stop-work authority and non-reprisal arrangements
- AwarenessEvidence workers can describe hazards relevant to them
Where clause 7.3 commonly fails
- Stop-work right not communicated or not protected
- Incident learnings not shared beyond the site involved
- Awareness delivered once at induction only
What to do about clause 7.3 before the revision
Add the reporting route and the anti-reprisal protection to induction and toolbox talks. Test the stop-work right in a real situation. Share incident findings with the workers they concern, not only with managers.
What the record shows for clause 7.3
An auditor working on clause 7.3 will start with Induction and awareness material covering every listed item. The failure this record sees most often is Stop-work right not communicated or not protected. Both are carried into the kit as row 19, with an owner field and a dated action.
Read across from clause 7.3
Read the next clause in the group, or open the full index. The revision map shows the draft structure.
Source for clause 7.3: ISO 45001:2018, clause 7.3, 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.