ISO 45001 Human Resource Procedure

7 Support

7.1 Resources

The organization shall determine and provide the resources needed for the establishment, implementation, maintenance, and continual improvement of the OH&S management system.

7.2 Competence

The organization shall:
a) determine the necessary competence of workers that affects or can affect its OH&S performance;
b) ensure that workers are competent (including the ability to identify hazards) on the basis of appropriate education, training, or experience;
c) where applicable, take actions to acquire and maintain the necessary competence, and evaluate the effectiveness of the actions taken;
d) retain appropriate documented information as evidence of competence.
NOTE Applicable actions can include, for example, the provision of training to, the mentoring of, or the reassignment of currently employed persons, or the hiring or contracting of competent persons.

7.3 Awareness

Workers shall be made aware of:
a) the OH&S policy and OH&S objectives;
b) their contribution to the effectiveness of the OH&S management system, including the benefits of improved OH&S performance;
c) the implications and potential consequences of not conforming to the OH&S management system requirements;
d) incidents and the outcomes of investigations that are relevant to them;
e) hazards, OH&S risks, and actions determined that are relevant to them;
f) the ability to remove themselves from work situations that they consider present an imminent and serious danger to their life or health, as well as the arrangements for protecting them from undue
consequences for doing so.