1st Edition

Navigating ISO 45001 Techniques, Implementation Tools and Case Studies

By Stephen Asbury Copyright 2025
    288 Pages 59 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    There has been a 2,500-year evolution in structured means of control and management systems. Occupational health and safety management systems are an essential tool for initiating and driving cultural change, and for establishing a framework for continual improvement in safety performance. Navigating ISO 45001 charts this evolution up to the launch of the world’s first occupational health and safety management system (OH&S-MS) standard ISO 45001:2018, and then forecasts its future for the next ten years.

    This book delivers approaches and techniques that include the Navigating 45001: Three-Step Model, 16 OH&S-MS implementation toolkits, and 24 case studies presented as practical examples to facilitate your organization’s success in this critical business area. Acting as the go-to companion to Health and Safety, Environment, and Quality Audits: A Risk-based approach (Asbury, 2023) which is now in its fourth edition and has sold thousands of copies, this new book presents OH&S-MS from the organization’s side. Written with the safety manager in mind, it will become the ‘go-to’ title for those who aspire to drive a prosperous and thriving organization based on world-class OH&S management and performance.

    Navigating ISO 45001 is essential reading for senior managers and safety managers in any safety-critical role or profession.

    Downloadable and copyright-free documents, videos and useful URL links are provided on the book’s companion website.

    The eBook+ version includes the following enhancements:

    • MicrolearningTM presentations at the beginning of each book chapter
    • Multiple-choice learning assessments at the end of each chapter

    1. The History of Management Systems.  2. ISO Annex SL, ISO 45001, and Navigating Integration.  3. The effectiveness of management systems.  4. Context of the Organization.  5. Leadership and Worker Participation.  6. Planning.  7. Support for the implementation.  8. Operation.  9. Performance evaluation.  10. Improvement.  

    Biography

    Dr. Stephen Asbury is the author of eight books on auditing, decision-making, and occupational health and safety risk management for Taylor & Francis. He is a Chartered Fellow of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (CFIOSH), an Emeritus Professional of the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP), and a Fellow of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (FIEMA). He has 40 years’ experience from assignments in over sixty countries on six continents.