Home / Insights / Blog / Health & Safety: New challenges to come from change Health & Safety: New challenges to come from change How can responsible employers demonstrate that employee welfare is top of their business priorities? International Health and Safety Management standard ISO 45001 is on target for introduction into the UK at the end of the year. With significant new responsibilities for senior management, the new framework set out within the standard aims to improve employee safety, reduce risk and create overall safer working conditions. Putting more emphasis on ‘human factors’, the new standard will require a commitment from senior management to proactively demonstrate health and safety leadership by creating an environment of continuous improvement. The question posed by the standard to many business owners is this: how can responsible employers demonstrate that employee welfare is at the top of their business priorities? The answer? By ensuring they are ISO 45001 compliant. The ISO 45001 checklist Can your organisation demonstrate the following? Occupational health and safety is integrated into your business process and considered in strategic plans Top management plays an active role in the occupational health and safety management system The importance of effective health and safety management is communicated throughout your business The workforce is provided with the direction and support to enable them to contribute to the effectiveness of the occupational health and safety management system You have taken into account the wider context that you operate in as well as your sub-contractors and suppliers in the way they control and manage health and safety If you’ve answered yes to all of the above then congratulations! Compliance should be a straight forward procedure. However, while every responsible company will try to demonstrate the above points, if that were the case the world over, then workplace accidents and deaths would be at zero. Clearly then, there is a need for an honest assessment of workplace health and safety. By assessing the current health and safety capabilities of your organisation honestly and setting clear benchmarks on how to improve, you can quickly tick off the above checklist with confidence. What is SSIP? Our health and safety specialists, Acclaim, are certified to assess and award SSIP Deemed to Satisfy, which is then shown on the Constructionline platform. This means you can search for SSIP adherence alongside PAS91 criteria. Learn more about SSIP Our membership levels Choose the level of membership most appropriate for the types of contracts you wish to pursue. Learn more Blog Health and Safety Related case studies Supplier Case Studies Suffolk County Council We spoke to Martin Jennings, Senior Procurement Officer at Suffolk County Council about his experience working with Constructionline to promote their construction framework agreement. In 2012, Suffolk County Council adopted Constructionline to align to industry standards and make considerable efficiency savings in their procurement process. … Read more Supplier Case Studies ASW Property Services Ltd ASW Property Services Limited is an indigenous Welsh company providing specialist construction services delivering a wide range of maintenance and refurbishment services primarily to Local Authority and Housing Association clients across the whole of South Wales and beyond. The company specialise in delivering works to … Read more Buyer Case Studies Highways England Highways England is a government owned company, previously known as the Highways Agency which was an Executive Agency of the Department for Transport (DfT), and is responsible for maintaining and improving the strategic road network in England. Constructionline is used at Stage 1 pre-qualification, where … Read more See more