What changes in the ISO 45001 revision
The DIS requirement text is not public, so this page does not quote it. What follows is what two named certification-body summaries report, checked against the public draft contents. Each point names its sources. Both summaries say the draft can still change, and the DIS foreword's own list of main changes is not yet filled in.
Harmonized structure
The draft adopts the harmonized structure throughout. Several clauses are reorganized, in many cases without a change of substance. The draft's parent clause 5 is Leadership, and Clause 9.3 is split into general, inputs and results.
Sources: DNV, DQS. Read them.
Work-related well-being
The public summaries report well-being in the scope, definitions, leadership, policy, consultation, opportunities and operational planning. A new definition of work-related well-being covers physical, mental, social and cognitive needs and expectations. This is a shift from preventing harm to promoting healthy work.
Sources: DNV, DQS. Read them.
Worker diversity
The summaries report an explicit duty to take account of the diversity of workers when determining needs and expectations (4.2) and controls (8.1.2), and personal emergency evacuation plans for people with disabilities in 8.2. A new definition of disability is reported.
Sources: DNV, DQS. Read them.
Psychosocial hazards
Psychosocial hazards are reported as explicitly named in hazard identification (6.1.2.1), with Annex A examples such as workload, work pace, working time, role clarity, leadership behaviour, relationships, harassment and bullying.
Sources: DNV, DQS. Read them.
Remote, hybrid and platform work
The summaries report remote workers and digital platform-based activities in hazard identification, and the definition of workplace including remote locations. A separate remote working guidance standard is in development.
Sources: DNV, DQS. Read them.
Climate
The 2024 climate amendment is retained. The draft adds notes to 4.1 with examples of issues, and names climate change and its consequences in hazard identification: extreme weather, thermal stress, UV, vector-borne disease and hazards from mitigation work.
Sources: DNV, DQS. Read them.
Planning of changes
A new 6.3 Planning of changes adopts the harmonized structure. The detailed management of change requirement moves to 8.1.5. The summaries describe the content as a modest change because the operational duty already existed.
Sources: DNV, DQS. Read them.
Occupational health and return to work
New 8.1.3 Occupational health and 8.1.4 Return to work following injury and ill health. The summaries describe prevention and early detection, access to occupational health, reasonable adjustments, and protected return to work.
Sources: DNV, DQS. Read them.
External providers
A new 8.1.6 Externally provided processes, products and services replaces the 2018 procurement subclauses. The term external provider replaces outsourcing. The summaries report new requirements and some parts removed.
Sources: DNV, DQS. Read them.
Training and PPE
The summaries report that free-of-charge training in paid working time and free personal protective equipment become formal requirements rather than notes.
Sources: DQS. Read them.
Awareness and reporting
The awareness list is extended to how to report incidents and hazards, and to protection from pressure, intimidation and reprisal when reporting.
Sources: DNV, DQS. Read them.
Annex A
Annex A is substantially extended to promote consistent interpretation. The public draft contents put Annex A from page 36 to page 58, against a much shorter annex in the 2018 edition.
Sources: DNV, DQS, oSIST / standards.iteh.ai (ISO/CEN parallel processing sample). Read them.
Definitions
New definitions are reported for work-related well-being, disability and external provider. The definition of OH&S risk is revised. The DIS foreword also replaces outcomes with results, in line with the ISO drafting rules.
Sources: DNV, DQS, oSIST / standards.iteh.ai (ISO/CEN parallel processing sample). Read them.
What to do with this
- Read the clause pages for the requirements that apply today, because the certificate you hold is against ISO 45001:2018.
- Check the clause map for every procedure reference that changes number, starting with 8.1.3, 8.1.4 and 10.3.
- Run the free scope and date check against your certificate expiry and next audit.
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The rules this is built from
Nothing here is invented. The 40 requirements that apply today are read from the held ISO 45001:2018 record, each with the evidence an auditor asks for and the ways it commonly fails. The revision layer is read from the public ISO stage record, the public draft contents and two named certification-body summaries. Where the record is silent, the page says so.
ISO 45001:2018, clause by clause
Each clause page states the requirement in our words, the evidence, the gaps and what to do before the revision lands.
Open the clause indexThe new and moved clauses
6.3, 8.1.3, 8.1.4, 8.1.6 and the consolidated 10.1, read from the public record.
Read the revision mapAnnex A, clearly labelled
Informative guidance, not requirements. It explains how to read the clauses and what it does not add.
Open Annex AThe ISO 45001:2018 text is licensed and is not reproduced. The ISO/DIS 45001 text is not public and is not reproduced. The record this site reads is linked on the standards page.