ISO 45001 coverage that protects people and proves it
Hazards, consultation records and incident investigations held in one place, with the statutory duties underneath evidenced alongside the management system.
Compliance at a glance
What ISO 45001 requires
Hazard register with hierarchy of controls
Hazards identified per site and activity, with the control level recorded and justified. Dimeri tracks the hierarchy so reliance on lower order controls is always documented.
Worker consultation on the record
Consultation activities, who participated and what came of it, logged as they occur. The record an auditor tests is built from practice, not reconstructed.
Incidents that close the loop
Each incident links to the hazard and control that failed, with root cause recorded and corrective actions carried until evidence closes them.
Statutory duties mapped alongside
OHSA and MHSA obligations sit beside the management system clauses. One control set serves both the standard and the law.
ISO 45001 compliance, covered by default
Hazard identification, worker consultation, incident investigation and the statutory duties that sit underneath, all in one platform so the management system and the law are evidenced together.
Hazard register with hierarchy of controls
Hazards identified per site and activity, with the control level recorded and justified, so reliance on PPE without a documented reason does not become an audit finding.
Worker consultation records
Consultation activities, who participated and what came of it, logged as they occur, not reconstructed for the auditor.
Incident investigation workflow
Incidents linked to the hazard and control that failed, with root cause recorded and corrective actions carried until evidence closes them.
Legal register for OHSA and MHSA
Statutory duties under the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Mine Health and Safety Act tracked as obligations with named owners and evidence.
Leading and lagging indicators
Safety performance tracked with thresholds, from leading indicators like inspection completion rates to lagging indicators like injury frequency.
What Dimeri tracks
Dimeri holds the management system clauses alongside the statutory duties they evidence, so the same control answers both.
Context, leadership and worker participation
The scope of the system, top management accountability, and the consultation and participation of workers the standard emphasises.
- Scope and interested parties recorded
- OH&S policy with approval and review dates
- Consultation activities logged with who took part
- Health and safety committee records held in the system
Hazard identification and risk assessment
Ongoing and proactive identification of hazards, including how work is organised, social factors and workload, with OH&S risks and opportunities assessed.
- Hazard register maintained per site and activity
- Risks scored on criteria applied across the organisation
- Opportunities for improvement captured, not only risks
- Reassessment triggered by change and by incidents
Legal and other requirements
Statutory duties determined, kept current and accounted for in the system rather than tracked in a separate compliance file.
- OHSA and MHSA duties held as tracked obligations
- Regulations and codes linked to the controls satisfying them
- Change monitoring with owners for each duty
- Evidence of compliance attached as controls operate
Eliminating hazards and reducing risk
The hierarchy of controls applied and recorded, so the auditor can see why an administrative control was chosen over elimination.
- Control level recorded against each treatment
- Justification where a lower order control was selected
- Personal protective equipment as last resort, evidenced
- Effectiveness tested rather than assumed
Incident investigation and corrective action
Incidents and nonconformities investigated, root causes determined, and corrective action taken and evidenced.
- Incidents captured at the point they happen
- Each linked to the hazard and control that failed
- Root cause recorded, not just the immediate cause
- Actions carried until evidence closes them
Monitoring, audit and management review
Performance evaluated, internal audit run across the system, and management review held with the expected inputs.
- Leading and lagging indicators tracked with thresholds
- Internal audit programme covering every clause
- Management review inputs gathered through the year
- Findings tracked to closure with owners
Getting ISO 45001 coverage in place
4 steps from where you are today to a ISO 45001 position your auditor can rely on.
Book a demoThe scope is defined, and the statutory duties that apply, OHSA or MHSA and their regulations, are loaded as tracked obligations. The standard expects this anyway, and doing it first means the rest of the system has something to hang on.
How Dimeri covers ISO 45001
Consultation you can show
Worker consultation is where certification audits most often find gaps, because participation happens but is never recorded. Consultation activities, who took part and what came of it are logged as they occur.
One hazard register, two masters
The hazards ISO 45001 covers are the same ones the OHS Act expects you to address. Recorded once, they satisfy the standard and evidence the statutory duty together.
Incidents that close the loop
An incident links to the hazard it came from and the control that failed, so the corrective action addresses the cause. Repeat incidents are the clearest signal that a system is documented rather than operating.
ISO 45001 questions
Does ISO 45001 replace the OHS Act?
No. The Occupational Health and Safety Act 85 of 1993 is South African law and applies regardless of whether you hold a certificate. ISO 45001 is a voluntary management system standard that makes those statutory duties demonstrable. The standard actually expects you to determine and keep current the legal requirements that apply, so the two are designed to sit together.
What changed from OHSAS 18001?
ISO 45001 adopted the common management system structure, put much stronger emphasis on leadership accountability and on the consultation and participation of workers including non-managerial workers, and widened hazard identification to cover how work is organised, social factors and workload rather than physical hazards alone.
What does the hierarchy of controls mean in practice?
The standard expects you to eliminate the hazard where you can, then substitute, then apply engineering controls, then administrative controls, and only then personal protective equipment. What auditors test is whether you recorded why you settled where you did. Reliance on PPE without a documented reason is a frequent finding.
Can this cover mines as well?
The standard applies to any organisation, but on a mine the Mine Health and Safety Act and its mandatory codes of practice govern, and the DMRE inspectorate enforces them. Dimeri holds MHSA duties alongside the ISO 45001 clauses so one control set serves both.
Is this a substitute for the standard or for legal advice?
No. ISO 45001 is a copyrighted ISO publication and should be obtained from ISO or a national standards body. Statutory health and safety duties carry criminal liability, so your legal advisers should confirm what applies to your operation.
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