I NFLU ENC E
1 Leadershi p and commi tment – th e b u y-in Senior management must demonstrate leadership and commitment. Within ISO 45001, there is a list of specific responsibilities that senior management must personally direct or be engaged in performing. For example, they must ‘lead and promote a culture’. At IOSH, not all staff are health and safety professionals. Therefore, we have a role to play in supporting and enabling senior management
Regime change Ruth Wilkinson, IOSH head of health and safety, discusses her lead in developing IOSH’s own occupational health and safety management system to compliance with ISO 45001. IOSH is currently developing its occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS) in compliance with ISO 45001:2018. Our formal gap analysis and certification audits will take place later this year. We have just under 200 employees, and we engage with approximately 1000 volunteers to support the delivery of our strategy, WORK 2022. We own one building, our headquarters at The Grange in Leicestershire. The majority of our employees are based here; however, a small proportion are contracted home workers, mobile workers, flexible workers and those who travel for business. Our journey to implementation has highlighted both challenges and useful approaches along the way.
4
ISO 5
Workers Under ISO 45001, a worker is defined as one who undertakes work that an organisation controls: employees as well as non-employees, such as volunteers, contractors, selfemployed and agency workers. A worker for ISO 45001 purposes is not to be confused with a worker as defined in employment law. IOSH volunteers make a valued contribution to our strategy and our wider membership. We engage with many volunteers who undertake a
to do this and evidence it. One way we’ve approached the promotion of this culture is to make good health, safety and wellbeing practice one of our organisational values and behaviours. Likewise, we embedded health and safety into core business, demonstrating commitment and supporting changes in behaviours. Providing training (including IOSH Leading Safely) to our senior management
Competence variety of roles, including networks, panel interviews, broad trustees and council members. Colleagues within IOSH have developed a new volunteer agreement that details our commitments to volunteers and includes our duty of care for health and safety. Our OHSMS also includes a process for volunteer health, safety and wellbeing as well as guidance and risk assessment for volunteer activities.
We are not an organisation made up solely of health and safety professionals. To ensure health and safety competence, a training needs analysis was undertaken. This coincided with a review of our learning and development; therefore the health, safety and wellbeing training was embedded within the overall programme. We used our own IOSH training products such as
Working Safely, Managing Safely and Leading Safely and provided other training/learning outcomes. I also delivered the IOSH course Managing Occupational Health and Wellbeing to all our managers; this focused on the management of health in the workplace, of both work-related and non-work-related ill health. I am also looking to introduce the new IOSH Corporate Governance course for senior management.
62 MARCH/APRIL 2020 | IOSHMAGAZINE.COM
62-63 Influence ISO 45001_Mar-Apr 2020_IOSH 62
28/02/2020 08:21
