Management review
A management review is the formal periodic (typically annual) review by top management of the WHSMS to ensure its continuing suitability, adequacy and effectiveness. ISO 45001 Cl 9.3 specifies 10 mandatory inputs and 5 mandatory outputs.
Legal context
ISO 45001 Cl 9.3 requires top management to review the OHSMS at planned intervals (commonly annually). Inputs include: status of actions from previous reviews, changes in external and internal issues, audit results, NCs and CAPAs, monitoring and measurement results, incidents and corrective actions, consultation and participation results, risks and opportunities, performance of contractors, achievement of OHS objectives, compliance evaluation results, results of risk-management activities, communication including complaints, and opportunities for continual improvement. Outputs must include: conclusions on the continuing suitability / adequacy / effectiveness of the OHSMS, continual-improvement decisions, any need for changes to the OHSMS (including resources), actions if objectives have not been achieved, opportunities to improve integration with other business processes.
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Audit programme
An audit programme is the planned schedule of internal audits across a WHSMS for a defined cycle (typically annual). ISO 45001 Clause 9.2 requires the audit programme to plan, establish, implement and maintain an audit programme — coverage of every clause across the cycle, by competent auditors, with findings driving CAPA.
CAPA
Corrective and Preventive Action is the structured response to a non-conformity or incident: investigate root cause, define corrective action (fix this) and preventive action (stop it recurring elsewhere), assign accountable owners and due dates, and verify the action was effective. ISO 45001 Cl 10.2 governs the workflow.
ISO 45001
ISO 45001:2018 is the international standard for occupational health and safety management systems (OHSMS). It uses the Annex SL high-level structure shared with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, organised around Plan-Do-Check-Act and 10 clauses from context (4) through improvement (10).
Lead vs lag indicator
Lead indicators measure activities that prevent harm (inspections completed, training delivered, near-miss reports closed-out, hazard-register reviews). Lag indicators measure harm after it occurred (TRIFR, LTIFR, days lost). A mature WHSMS uses both, weighted toward lead because lag is reactive.
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