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How do you extend your quality system to cover environmental, occupational health, and safety management?
Building and certifying a management system usually starts from the quality angle first — based on the ISO 9001 standard.
Once operations under that standard are established and maturing, the next natural step is often to extend the system — most commonly to environmental management (ISO 14001) and/or occupational health & safety management (ISO 45001).
Management-system frameworks — ISO standards — offer a great opportunity for this combined approach to HSEQ management (Health, Safety, Environment, Quality), since their shared structure and principles support building a coherent whole, even when several standards are in use at once.
Integrating ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001 benefits an organization in many ways. It lets you make broader use of your existing quality system and the practices already in place. At the same time, the environmental, occupational health, and safety themes that matter most for compliance and legal requirements get managed more effectively — with less effort than running them as completely separate systems.
What you’ll get from this course
You’ll see how quality management supports environmental, occupational health, and safety management.
You’ll learn the common ground between ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, and ISO 45001:2018 — as well as what makes each standard distinct in practice.
You’ll learn how an ISO 9001:2015-based management system enables integrating the other standards, and how to bring environmental and safety perspectives into a combined HSEQ system.
Who’s it for?
This training is aimed at managers responsible for quality, environmental, and occupational health & safety (HSEQ) topics, as well as subject-matter experts and organizational leadership.
You don’t need to be aiming for ISO 14001 or ISO 45001 certification to join — but the course can also support you toward those goals.
It’s broadly useful for any organization looking to sharpen and strengthen the impact of its quality, environmental, and occupational health & safety management.
Learning methods
This is a one-day course combining theory, discussion, and hands-on exercises.
Participants receive plenty of materials, practical tools, and best practices — a solid starting point for running an integration in your own organization.
What does integrating a management system and HSEQ actually mean in practice?
ISO 9001:2015 principles and how they relate to ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018
Key principles of ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018
Where the standards align, and where they differ
Exercise: current-state analysis of your management system
Integration: Context and leadership
Environmental and occupational health & safety perspectives in analyzing your operating context and stakeholders — what’s different about them
Leadership and commitment to environmental and occupational health & safety management — HSEQ leadership
Exercise: expanding your stakeholder analysis
Integration: Planning your operations
Environmental, occupational health, and safety risks and opportunities
Environmental aspects (environmental management) and hazards (occupational health & safety management) as part of planning
Setting objectives
Exercise: risk assessment and its tools from an environmental and occupational health & safety perspective
12:00Lunch break
13:00Course continues
Integration: Support functions
Looking at support functions as a whole
Exercise: managing competencies
Integration: Operations and processes
Identifying processes and the process steps that are critical from a standards perspective
Emergency-preparedness plans and actions from an environmental and occupational health & safety perspective
Exercise: emergency preparedness
Integration: Performance monitoring and continuous improvement
dentifying processes and the process steps that are critical from a standards perspective
Emergency-preparedness plans and actions from an environmental and occupational health & safety perspective
Exercise: emergency preparedness
Wrap-up and next steps for your own organization
Recap of the day’s key takeaways
Practical steps for integration, and tips for documenting an integrated system
16:00End of course
Would you like an organization-specific quote?
All of our courses are also available on an organization-specific basis. The content can be tailored exactly to your development needs, and delivered for anything from a small group up to your whole staff.
Tiina Riutta works at Arter as head of sales, marketing and training. She is responsible for Arter’s sales and marketing, organizing trainings, and developing the training. Contact Tiina for any matters related to Arter’s trainings, whether you wish to participate in an open training session or arrange a customized organization-specific training.
Get in touch with Tiina directly, or request a quote!
