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ISO 45001 Certification Checklist for UK Businesses
Everything your business needs to verify before the Stage 2 certification audit — written by a CQI/IRCA certified Lead Auditor with 20+ years of occupational health and safety management experience.
What the checklist covers
Context, scope and leadership
Confirm your OHSMS scope is documented correctly, your OH&S policy includes the required commitments, and top management can demonstrate active involvement — a requirement that ISO 45001 makes significantly more explicit than OHSAS 18001.
Worker participation and consultation
One of the most distinctive requirements of ISO 45001. Evidence that workers are genuinely involved in hazard identification, risk assessment, and incident investigation — not just informed after the fact.
Hazard identification and legal compliance
Every item your auditor will check around risk assessments, the legal register, and — critically — evidence that you have evaluated compliance against each applicable requirement, not just listed the legislation.
Internal audit requirements
What a rigorous OH&S internal audit looks like, including the risk-based audit programme that ISO 45001 requires.
The five most common Stage 2 failure reasons
From 20+ years of conducting and supporting ISO 45001 audits — the specific gaps that cause businesses to fail or receive major nonconformities.
Transitioning from OHSAS 18001? The checklist covers the ISO 45001-specific requirements that OHSAS 18001 did not explicitly address — including worker participation and legal compliance evaluation. Read our OHSAS 18001 vs ISO 45001 guide →
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Rob Pragnell
CQI/IRCA Lead Auditor · 20+ years
CQI & TRECCERT certified Lead Auditor across ISO 9001, 14001, 27001, 45001 & 42001. Every Anacruses client works directly with Rob — not a junior consultant.
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