Advanced Safety Management, 3rd Edition

CHAPTER 16EVALUATION AND CORRECTIVE ACTION

In Z10.0, Clause 9.0 contains specific provisions to achieve both a performance evaluation and to establish corrective action mechanisms as is said in its first two bulleted items.

This section defines requirements for processes to

• Evaluate the performance of the occupational health and safety management systems (OHSMS) through Monitoring, Measurement and Assessment, Incident Investigation, and Audits and
• Take corrective action when nonconformances, system deficiencies, hazards, and incidents that are not being controlled to an acceptable form of risk are found in the OHSMS.

In 45001, the purpose principally of Clause 9 is for performance evaluation. But as will be seen later in this chapter, the outputs of a management review are to include opportunities for continual improvement, any needed changes to the OH&S management system, and actions if needed etc.

Having processes for taking corrective action are a requirement of Clause 10 in 45001, the title of which is Improvement. This is its opening General statement for Clause 10 in 45001:

The organization shall determine opportunities for improvement (see Clause 9) and implement actions necessary to achieve the intended outcomes.

Rather extensive comments on these subjects were made in Chapter 1—an Overview—and some of those comments are duplicated here.

MONITORING, MEASUREMENT, AND ASSESSMENT IN Z10.0 AND MONITORING, MEASUREMENT, ANALYSIS, AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION IN 45001 ...