Change record: ISO publishes OH&S performance-evaluation guidance
ISO 45004:2024 provides guidance on monitoring, measurement, analysis, evaluation, and indicators for occupational health and safety performance.
What changed
ISO 45004:2024 provides guidance on monitoring, measurement, analysis, evaluation, and indicators for occupational health and safety performance.
This entry preserves the event separately from maintained provider and capability conclusions. A rule, announcement, release, enforcement record, or market transaction can be material before enough evidence exists to revise a company classification or comparison.
Operating consequence
EHS analytics can be evaluated against data-quality, decision, and improvement needs rather than dashboard activity alone.
Teams should identify which records, populations, systems, transactions, jurisdictions, products, or decisions fall within the change. Then assign an accountable owner, response date, evidence requirement, and disposition. Broad reassessment is not always necessary, but a material event deserves a documented decision.
Capabilities to revisit
Analytics, Leading Indicators, And Performance Evaluation
Review the maintained workflow definition, then ask affected organizations to show how this event alters inputs, governed rules, human judgment, exceptions, action, evidence retention, and downstream exchange for analytics, leading indicators, and performance evaluation.
Incident And Near-Miss Reporting
Review the maintained workflow definition, then ask affected organizations to show how this event alters inputs, governed rules, human judgment, exceptions, action, evidence retention, and downstream exchange for incident and near-miss reporting.
Inspections, Observations, And Behavior-Based Safety
Review the maintained workflow definition, then ask affected organizations to show how this event alters inputs, governed rules, human judgment, exceptions, action, evidence retention, and downstream exchange for inspections, observations, and behavior-based safety.
Audits And Assurance
Review the maintained workflow definition, then ask affected organizations to show how this event alters inputs, governed rules, human judgment, exceptions, action, evidence retention, and downstream exchange for audits and assurance.
Questions for operating teams
- Which exact population and effective date does the source establish?
- Does the change alter authority, policy, content, workflow, integration, evidence, or only market positioning?
- What customer-controlled interpretation, configuration, or process remains outside a provider's responsibility?
- What test case would show whether the operational consequence has reached production?
- What record will close, defer, or supersede this review?
Evidence boundary
The source class is Official standards record. It establishes only the statements supported by the linked record and does not, by itself, establish implementation depth, market-wide availability, transaction-specific applicability, independent efficacy, or a universal buyer conclusion.