Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems
Domain 2 tests whether you can describe an OSH management system as a working cycle rather than a folder of documents, and map it to the ISO 45001:2018 clause structure.
The PDCA frame
- Clause 4 Context: internal and external issues, interested parties, scope.
- Clause 5 Leadership and worker participation: policy, roles, consultation arrangements.
- Clause 6 Planning: hazard identification, legal and other requirements, OSH objectives.
- Clause 7 Support: resources, competence, awareness, communication, documented information.
- Clause 8 Operation: operational planning and control, hierarchy of controls, contractors and outsourcing, emergency preparedness.
- Clause 9 Performance evaluation: monitoring and measurement, internal audit, management review.
- Clause 10 Improvement: incidents, nonconformity, corrective action, continual improvement.
Mongolian practice expects the employer's OSH arrangements to be documented, assigned to named people and reviewed at set intervals. An OSH officer who cannot show review and follow-up is likely to lose marks.
Worked example
An internal audit finds no management review for 18 months and three repeat findings from the previous audit. Reasoning: the missing review is a clause 9.3 nonconformity, because top management has not evaluated the system's suitability, adequacy and effectiveness. The repeat findings indicate that the corrective action process under 10.2 fixed symptoms, not causes. The correct response is two separate nonconformities, root-cause analysis of the repeats, a review scheduled with defined inputs and outputs, and verified effectiveness at the next audit.
Traps
Equating the system with the manual set; accepting a certificate as evidence of effectiveness; closing corrective actions at retrained staff; leaving contractors and agency workers outside scope; treating worker consultation as a signature on a form.