Clause 9.3: Management review
At planned intervals top management reviews the OH&S management system so that it stays suitable, adequate and effective.
What clause 9.3 asks
At planned intervals top management reviews the OH&S management system so that it stays suitable, adequate and effective. Inputs cover: where actions from earlier reviews stand; changes in internal and external issues, in what interested parties need and expect, in legal and other requirements, and in risks and opportunities; how far the policy and objectives have been achieved; information on OH&S performance, including incidents, nonconformities, continual improvement and corrective actions, results of monitoring and measurement, the outcome of compliance evaluation, audit results, consultation and participation of workers, and risks and opportunities; whether resources are adequate; relevant communications with interested parties; and opportunities for continual improvement. Outputs cover decisions on whether the system remains suitable, adequate and effective, on opportunities to improve, on any change needed, on resources, on actions, on integration with business processes, and on what all this means for strategic direction. Top management passes the relevant outputs on to workers and their representatives, and documented information is retained.
Management review is a decision meeting. Every listed input has to be in front of top management, and every output has to carry a decision, an owner and a resource.
Draft 9.3 Management review, from clause 9.3. The draft splits the clause into 9.3.1 General, 9.3.2 Management review inputs and 9.3.3 Management review results, and replaces outcomes with results in line with the drafting change noted in the DIS foreword.
Evidence for clause 9.3
An auditor will read the minutes for a decision that changed a resource, a control or an objective, and check that workers heard the result.
- Management reviewManagement review agenda covering every required input
- Management reviewMinutes with decisions, actions, owners and resource decisions
- Management reviewEvidence of communication of outputs to workers and representatives
- Management reviewFollow-through of previous actions
Where clause 9.3 commonly fails
- Review is an incident statistics meeting
- Worker consultation results not an input
- Outputs not communicated to workers
What to do about clause 9.3 before the revision
Rebuild the agenda from the clause inputs, including worker consultation and compliance evaluation. Minute decisions, owners and resources. Communicate the results to workers and representatives. Follow up the previous actions first.
What the record shows for clause 9.3
An auditor working on clause 9.3 will start with Management review agenda covering every required input. The failure this record sees most often is Review is an incident statistics meeting. Both are carried into the kit as row 37, with an owner field and a dated action.
Read across from clause 9.3
Read the next clause in the group, or open the full index. The revision map shows the draft structure.
Source for clause 9.3: ISO 45001:2018, clause 9.3, 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.