Name of the standard ISO 45001:2018 Occupational health and safety management systems Requirements Brief Description Published in 2018, ISO 45001 has replaced one of the most popular British standard OHSAS 18001:2007. One of the major advantages of ISO 45001 is that it is based on the Annex SL framework thus making it ready for integration with other ISO management system standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001, etc. ISO 45001 prescribes the criteria for an occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS) that an organization may want to build. Any type of an organization can refer to these criteria and develop its own occupational health and safety management system. Once all applicable criteria are addressed, the organization can get this occupational health and safety management system certified from a third party certification body. Most organizations develop an occupational health and safety management system because There is a need to assure their customers that the organization controls the health and safety aspects of its employees, stakeholders, customers and suppliers in its workplace. A certification to ISO 45001 will provide that confidence to the organizations customers. The organizations need to develop a systematic approach to eliminate, reduce or prevent the workplace related hazards thereby meeting its social and legal obligations. An application of ISO 45001 offers a risk based framework to the organization where continual improvement process is established for controlling the occupational (workplace related) hazards and risks. ISO 45001 helps the organizations build efficient operational controls in view of the hazards and risks to health and safety that arise due to its routine and non-routine activities. Such controls also satisfy the applicable statutory and regulatory requirements (e.g. Labour Laws) thereby ensuring the required compliance level.