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ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety Awareness

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Build practical awareness of ISO 45001:2018, including the 2024 climate amendment. Twelve modules and 36 complete text lessons explain OH&S context, leadership, worker participation, hazards, risks, requirements, controls, competence, contractors, emergencies, performance and improvement. Each lesson includes a practice activity and feedback. Complete a 40-question final quiz and a practical case assignment. Estimated workload: 6.5 hours. Successful completion earns a W3 course completion certificate.

What Will You Learn?

  • LO01: Explain the purpose, key terms, PDCA structure and edition basis of ISO 45001.
  • LO02: Connect organizational context, climate relevance, interested parties and scope to OH&S decisions.
  • LO03: Recognize leadership responsibilities and meaningful worker consultation and participation.
  • LO04: Identify hazards and distinguish OH&S risks, system risks and opportunities.
  • LO05: Connect legal and other requirements, measurable objectives and the hierarchy of controls.
  • LO06: Recognize competence, awareness, reporting and communication needs for safe work.
  • LO07: Use controlled information and recognize operational and management-of-change controls.
  • LO08: Explain procurement, contractor, outsourcing and emergency preparedness responsibilities.
  • LO09: Interpret performance information and distinguish compliance evaluation from internal audit.
  • LO10: Explain management review, incident learning, corrective action and continual improvement.
  • LO11: Apply OH&S thinking to health, psychosocial factors, climate conditions and certification boundaries.
  • LO12: Prepare an evidence-based case response and a practical workplace improvement proposal.

Course Content

Welcome and OH&S foundations
Purpose, terms, the 2018 edition with Amendment 1:2024, and Plan-Do-Check-Act.

  • Start here: your learning journey
  • Purpose, scope and essential terms
  • The 2018 edition, 2024 amendment and PDCA

Context, people and scope
Clauses 4.1 to 4.4: relevant conditions, workers and other interested parties, boundaries and processes.

Leadership and worker participation
Clauses 5.1 to 5.4: leadership, policy, responsibilities, consultation and participation.

Hazards, risks and opportunities
Clauses 6.1.1, 6.1.2 and 6.1.4: proactive hazard identification and proportionate planning.

Requirements, objectives and controls
Clauses 6.1.3, 6.2 and 8.1.2: legal and other requirements, objectives and control priorities.

People, awareness and communication
Clauses 7.1 to 7.4: resources, competence, awareness and accessible communication.

Information, operations and change
Clauses 7.5, 8.1.1 and 8.1.3: usable information, operational criteria and planned change.

External providers and emergencies
Clauses 8.1.4 and 8.2: purchasing, contractors, outsourcing and emergency response readiness.

Checking OH&S performance
Clauses 9.1 and 9.2: meaningful measures, compliance evaluation and internal audit.

Review, learning and improvement
Clauses 9.3 and 10: management review, incidents, corrective action and sustained improvement.

OH&S in everyday decisions
Apply learning to occupational health, psychosocial factors, climate conditions and system readiness.

Assessment and workplace action
Consolidate terminology, complete the practical case and final quiz, and plan a useful next action.

Assessment