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Establish a structured and practical approach to identifying workplace hazards, assessing occupational health & safety risks and opportunities, and selecting effective controls with the Verivexa ISO 45001 Hazard Identification & Risk Assessment Toolkit.

Containing 15 professionally developed and fully editable resources, this specialist toolkit provides the policies, methodologies, registers, assessment tools and implementation guidance needed to establish one of the most important foundations of an ISO 45001 Occupational Health & Safety Management System (OH&S MS).

Developed to support ISO 45001:2018 and Amendment 1:2024, the toolkit goes beyond a simple risk-assessment spreadsheet by helping organisations establish a systematic process for identifying hazards, evaluating OH&S risks and opportunities, selecting controls and maintaining risk information as circumstances change.

What’s Included

The toolkit contains 15 dedicated hazard identification and OH&S risk management resources, covering:

• Hazard identification methodology
• OH&S risk assessment methodology
• Risk criteria and evaluation
• Hazard identification tools
• OH&S risk assessment and registers
• OH&S risks and opportunities
• Routine and non-routine activities
• Human factors
• Work organisation
• Psychosocial hazards
• Workers and other persons who may be affected
• Contractors and outsourced activities
• Changes to activities, workplaces and processes
• Hierarchy of controls
• Risk treatment and control decisions
• Review and monitoring
• Practical implementation guidance

More Than a Risk Register

Effective ISO 45001 risk management requires more than completing a generic risk-assessment spreadsheet.

The Verivexa toolkit helps organisations establish a repeatable process for:

Identify Hazards → Assess Risk → Determine Controls → Implement → Monitor Effectiveness → Review & Improve

This creates a stronger connection between the organisation's risk assessment process and the controls actually implemented in the workplace.

Comprehensive Hazard Identification

The toolkit helps organisations consider hazards arising from a broad range of workplace circumstances rather than limiting assessment to obvious physical safety hazards.

This includes consideration of areas such as:

• Routine and non-routine work
• People with access to the workplace
• Contractors and visitors
• Human behaviour and human factors
• Workload and work organisation
• Workplace design
• Equipment and materials
• Changes to processes or activities
• Previous incidents and emergency situations
• Activities occurring away from the organisation's direct workplace
• Psychosocial and organisational factors

This helps create a more complete picture of the organisation's OH&S risk profile.

OH&S Risks and Opportunities

ISO 45001 planning considers both OH&S risks and opportunities and other risks and opportunities affecting the OH&S management system.

The toolkit provides a structured approach for identifying, assessing and managing these areas rather than treating opportunities simply as “positive risks”.

This can help organisations identify opportunities to:

• Eliminate hazards
• Reduce OH&S risks
• Improve workplace design
• Adapt work to workers
• Improve worker participation
• Introduce safer technologies
• Strengthen management-system processes
• Improve overall OH&S performance

Hierarchy of Controls

A strong emphasis is placed on applying the hierarchy of controls when determining how OH&S risks should be addressed.

The toolkit supports consideration of controls in the recognised order of effectiveness:

Elimination → Substitution → Engineering Controls / Reorganisation of Work → Administrative Controls → Personal Protective Equipment

This helps organisations avoid automatically relying on procedures, training or PPE where more effective risk controls may be available.

Worker Consultation & Participation

Workers are often best placed to understand the hazards associated with the work they perform.

The toolkit therefore supports worker consultation and participation throughout hazard identification and risk assessment, including when:

• Identifying hazards
• Assessing workplace conditions
• Evaluating existing controls
• Selecting additional controls
• Reviewing changes
• Investigating incidents
• Reviewing control effectiveness

This helps ensure assessments reflect how work actually takes place rather than how it is assumed to operate.

Designed for Practical Implementation

The included tools can be adapted to different organisational environments and risk profiles.

Use them to establish a risk-management process appropriate to your organisation's:

• Activities
• Workplaces
• Workforce
• Equipment
• Contractors
• Processes
• Existing controls
• Legal requirements
• Organisational structure

Fully Editable

Resources are supplied in editable Microsoft Word and Excel formats, allowing you to customise the methodology, assessment criteria, registers and guidance to your organisation.

Ideal For

• Organisations implementing ISO 45001
• Existing ISO 45001-certified organisations strengthening risk management
• Health & Safety Managers
• OH&S Managers
• Risk and Compliance Managers
• Internal Auditors
• Consultants
• Organisations improving existing workplace risk-assessment processes

Use as a Standalone Toolkit or With the Full ISO 45001 Suite

This specialist toolkit can be used independently to strengthen your organisation's hazard identification and OH&S risk-management processes.

For organisations building a complete ISO 45001 management system, these resources are also included within the relevant Verivexa ISO 45001 packages.

Current Standard Alignment

Developed for:

ISO 45001:2018 — Occupational health and safety management systems

Including:

ISO 45001:2018/Amd 1:2024 — Climate action changes

Important Information

The toolkit provides a structured framework for hazard identification and OH&S risk management but must be adapted to reflect your organisation's actual activities and risk environment.

Risk assessments should be undertaken with appropriate competence and worker involvement. Specialist occupational health, occupational hygiene, engineering, legal or other professional advice may be necessary depending on the hazards involved.

The toolkit does not replace applicable health & safety legislation, regulatory requirements or competent professional advice.

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