Safety Management Systems
How to build, run and improve an occupational health and safety management system, followed through the invented Harrowgate Foods as it builds one across its plants and distribution centre in Nova Scotia: what a safety management system is and plan-do-check-act, ISO 45001 and CSA Z45001 including the 2024 climate amendment and the revision under way, context, leadership and worker participation, policy and objectives, hazard identification and risk assessment at system level, legal and other requirements, competence, communication and documents, operational control and management of change, procurement, contractors and emergency preparedness, monitoring, internal audits and management review, WCB Safety Certified and COR audits, and continual improvement and integration with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, with a capstone gap assessment.
HSE-404 12 lessons · 4 h 5 min ▶ Video lessons coming soon
Offered by HSM University · Safety Training
This is the Canadian version of this course. See the American version.
What you'll learn
- Explain what an occupational health and safety management system is, how plan-do-check-act structures it, and why organizations adopt one.
- Compare ISO 45001 and CSA Z45001, describe their shared clause structure, and explain the 2024 climate amendment and the revision under way.
- Analyse the context of an organization and show how top management leadership and worker consultation and participation drive the system.
- Write an OHS policy and set measurable objectives with plans, owners, leading and lagging indicators and resources.
- Identify hazards and assess risks at system level, including routine, non-routine, psychosocial and long-latency health hazards.
- Build and maintain a register of legal and other requirements and evaluate compliance with it.
- Plan the support a system needs: resources, competence, awareness, communication and documented information.
- Apply the hierarchy of controls, critical controls and management of change to operational control.
- Manage procurement, contractors and outsourced work, and prepare for, test and learn from emergencies.
- Evaluate performance through monitoring and measurement, internal audits and management review that produces decisions.
- Explain the routes to external recognition, including ISO 45001 certification, WCB Safety Certified and COR, and keep recognition meaningful.
- Drive continual improvement through corrective action, integrate safety with quality and environmental systems, and carry out a gap assessment.
Course content
12 lessons · 4 h 5 min total · final exam
- 1 What a safety management system is and why it matters 21 min · quiz
- 2 Standards for safety management: ISO 45001 and CSA Z45001 21 min · quiz
- 3 Context, leadership and worker participation 20 min · quiz
- 4 Policy, objectives and planning 21 min · quiz
- 5 Hazard identification and risk assessment at system level 21 min · quiz
- 6 Legal and other requirements 20 min · quiz
- 7 Support: resources, competence, communication and documents 20 min · quiz
- 8 Operational control and management of change 21 min · quiz
- 9 Procurement, contractors and emergency preparedness 20 min · quiz
- 10 Performance evaluation: monitoring, internal audits and management review 20 min · quiz
- 11 External recognition: WCB Safety Certified and COR audits 20 min · quiz
- 12 Continual improvement, integrated systems and a capstone gap assessment 20 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
How to build, run and improve an occupational health and safety management system, followed through the invented Harrowgate Foods as it builds one across its plants and distribution centre in Nova Scotia: what a safety management system is and plan-do-check-act, ISO 45001 and CSA Z45001 including the 2024 climate amendment and the revision under way, context, leadership and worker participation, policy and objectives, hazard identification and risk assessment at system level, legal and other requirements, competence, communication and documents, operational control and management of change, procurement, contractors and emergency preparedness, monitoring, internal audits and management review, WCB Safety Certified and COR audits, and continual improvement and integration with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, with a capstone gap assessment.