ISO 45001: 2018 (OH&S MS) Common Terms and Definitions

ISO 45001: 2018 (OH&S MS) Common Terms and Definitions

Organization: Person or group of people that has its own functions with responsibilities, authorities and relationship to achieve its objectives

Interested Party (Preferred Term)/Stakeholder (Admitted Term): Person or organization that can affect, be affected by, or perceive itself to be affected by a decision or activity

Worker: Person performing work or work-related activities that are under the control of the organization

Participation: Involvement in decision-making

Consultation: Seeking views before making a decision

Workplace: Place under the control of the organization where a person needs to be or to go for work purposes

Contractor: External organization providing services to the organization in accordance with agreed specifications, terms and conditions

Requirement: need or expectation that is stated, generally implied or obligatory

Legal Requirements And Other Requirements: legal requirements that an organization has to comply with and other requirements that an organization has to or chooses to comply with

Management system: set of interrelated or interacting elements of an organization to establish policies and objectives and processes to achieve those objectives

Top management: Person or group of people who directs and controls an organization at the highest level

Effectiveness: Extent to which planned activities are realized and planned results achieved

Policy: Intentions and direction of an organization, as formally expressed by its top management

Occupational health and safety policy (OH&S policy): Policy to prevent work-related injury.

Objective: Result to be achieved

Occupational health and safety objective (OH&S objective) objective set by the organization to achieve specific results consistent with the OH&S policy

Injury and ill health: Adverse effect on the physical, mental or cognitive condition of a person

Hazard: Source with a potential to cause injury and ill health

Risk: Effect of uncertainty

Occupational health and safety risk (OH&S risk): Combination of the likelihood of occurrence of a work-related hazardous event(s) or exposure(s) and the severity of injury and ill health that can be caused by the event(s) or exposure(s)

Occupational health and safety opportunity (OH&S opportunity)

Circumstance or set of circumstances that can lead to improvement of OH&S performance

Competence: Ability to apply knowledge and skills to achieve intended results

Documented Information: information required to be controlled and maintained by an organization and the medium on which it is contained

Process: Set of interrelated or interacting activities which transforms inputs into outputs

Procedure: Specified way to carry out an activity or a process

Performance: Measurable result

Occupational health and safety performance OH&S performance: Performance related to the effectiveness of the prevention of injury and ill health to workers and the provision of safe and healthy workplaces

Outsource: make an arrangement where an external organization performs part of an organization’s function or process

Monitoring: Determining the status of a system, a process or an activity

Measurement: process to determine a value

Audit: Systematic, independent and documented process for obtaining audit evidence and evaluating it objectively to determine the extent to which the audit criteria are fulfilled

Conformity: fulfilment of a requirement

Nonconformity: non-fulfilment of a requirement

Incident: occurrence arising out of, or in the course of, work that could or does result in injury and ill health

Corrective action: action to eliminate the cause(s) of a nonconformity or an incident and to prevent recurrence

Continual improvement: recurring activity to enhance performance