Authority-to-workflow crosswalk

The authority records

OSHA injury and illness recordkeeping

Covered United States employers and establishments, subject to stated scope and exemptions · In force. Part 1904 governs which occupational injuries and illnesses covered employers record, severe events they report, records they retain, and data certain establishments submit electronically to OSHA.

OSHA Hazard Communication Standard

Covered U.S. workplaces where employees may be exposed to hazardous chemicals, with sector-specific applicability · In force; 2024 amendments have phased compliance dates extended in 2026. The standard requires hazard classification, labels, safety data sheets, written programs, and worker information and training for hazardous chemicals. The 2024 revision primarily aligns with GHS Revision 7 and changes selected classification, label, and SDS provisions.

OSHA Process Safety Management standard

Covered U.S. processes involving threshold quantities of listed highly hazardous chemicals, subject to stated exemptions · In force. The PSM standard establishes an integrated program for covered highly hazardous chemical processes, including process-safety information, hazard analysis, procedures, training, contractors, pre-startup review, mechanical integrity, hot work, management of change, incident investigation, emergency planning, compliance audits, and trade secrets.

EPA Risk Management Program rule

U.S. stationary sources with more than threshold quantities of regulated substances, subject to rule scope · In force with a February 2026 proposal to revise portions of the 2024 amendments. The RMP rule requires covered facilities to develop and submit risk-management plans and operate chemical-accident prevention and emergency-preparedness programs. Current obligations and proposed 2026 revisions must be tracked separately.

EPCRA

U.S. facilities and governmental planning bodies within the applicable EPCRA provisions · In force; technical amendments to 40 CFR Part 370 published June 22, 2026. EPCRA creates chemical emergency planning, release notification, hazardous chemical inventory, and toxic release reporting requirements designed to support responders and community access to information.

ISO 45001

Voluntary global standard unless adopted through contract, policy, certification scope, or legal reference · Published and current. ISO 45001 specifies requirements for an occupational health and safety management system, emphasizing leadership, worker participation, hazard and risk management, operational control, performance evaluation, and continual improvement.

ISO 45003

Voluntary global guidance unless adopted through policy, contract, or another instrument · Published and current. ISO 45003 gives guidance for managing psychosocial risk within an occupational health and safety management system, including work organization, social factors, work environment, consultation, controls, and evaluation.

ISO 45004

Voluntary global guidance · Published and current. ISO 45004 guides organizations in establishing monitoring, measurement, analysis, evaluation, and indicators for occupational health and safety performance.

ISO 14001:2026

Voluntary global standard unless adopted through contract, policy, certification scope, or legal reference · Published; transition planning applies to organizations using the superseded 2015 edition. ISO 14001:2026 is the current environmental-management-system requirements standard. It retains the management-system framework while refining language and replacing the 2015 edition and separate climate-action amendment.

EU OSH Framework Directive

EU Member States through national transposition, subject to directive scope and national implementation · In force as amended. The framework establishes general principles of prevention, employer responsibility, risk assessment, worker information, training, consultation, health surveillance, and protective services across the EU occupational-safety system.

Seveso III Directive

EU establishments within substance and threshold scope through Member State transposition · In force. Seveso III establishes prevention, safety-management, emergency-planning, land-use, inspection, public-information, and accident-reporting requirements for covered establishments involving dangerous substances.

ILO-OSH 2001

Voluntary international guidance for national and organizational OSH management systems · Published guidance. ILO-OSH 2001 provides internationally developed guidance for coherent OSH policy, organizing, planning and implementation, evaluation, and action for improvement, with worker participation as a central principle.

The operating-domain lens

Incident, injury, and near-miss learning

The operating system for capturing events, protecting people, determining reporting paths, investigating contributing factors, assigning actions, preserving records, and learning across sites without confusing a first report with a final legal or causal conclusion. The crosswalk links 5 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Hazard, risk, control, and assurance

The discipline of identifying hazards, understanding exposure and risk, selecting controls, verifying implementation, testing effectiveness, and closing gaps through worker participation and accountable review. The crosswalk links 5 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Chemical and process safety

The connected management of hazardous substances, process hazards, technical information, operating procedures, mechanical integrity, work controls, contractors, change, emergency response, and major-accident prevention. The crosswalk links 6 capabilities and 4 authority records.

Environmental compliance, permits, and reporting

The system for identifying facility obligations, managing permits and limits, collecting operational data, preparing reports, handling deviations, and retaining defensible evidence across air, water, waste, chemicals, and emissions. The crosswalk links 6 capabilities and 2 authority records.

Occupational health and industrial hygiene

The protection of worker health through exposure assessment, sampling, surveillance, case workflows, controls, trend evaluation, and privacy-aware records across chemical, physical, ergonomic, biological, and psychosocial hazards. The crosswalk links 5 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Contractor and field-workforce safety

The system for qualifying organizations and people, communicating site hazards, validating competencies, controlling access and work, reporting events, and coordinating accountabilities across employers and locations. The crosswalk links 5 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Emergency preparedness and operational resilience

The planning, information, communication, exercise, response, coordination, recovery, and learning system for worker, facility, chemical, environmental, and community emergencies. The crosswalk links 5 capabilities and 4 authority records.

Management system and data integrity

The governance layer that connects policy, responsibilities, worker participation, obligations, controlled records, data quality, indicators, audits, management review, and improvement across EHS disciplines. The crosswalk links 5 capabilities and 4 authority records.

How to use the crosswalk

Determine applicability with qualified owners, identify affected records and workflows, map each expectation to an accountable decision and retained evidence, then use capability and organization pages to frame a technology evaluation. A mapping is editorial navigation—not a conformity or legal conclusion.

Methodology

1. Define the market boundary, exclusions, operating models, and capability taxonomy before classifying organizations.
2. Require an approved official source for organization inclusion and each documented capability.
3. Keep authority sources, provider claims, independent observations, editorial synthesis, and unknowns in separate evidence states.
4. Use one primary operating model per organization while retaining adjacent scope in the narrative record.
5. Preserve source URLs, review dates, material changes, limitations, and correction history.

Limitations

• The maintained population is substantial but not claimed to be a complete global market.
• Official public documentation may omit available capabilities or lag product and service changes.
• Documented positioning does not measure product depth, configured availability, independent performance, implementation effort, customer outcome, or commercial terms.
• Authority mappings are editorial research aids and do not establish buyer-specific applicability or product conformity.
• No organization may purchase inclusion, classification, finding, or correction outcome.

Reproducibility and updates

The report is reproduced from the provider registry, normalized facts and evidence, authority and domain records, and the publication taxonomy. A material change requires a dated source and editorial explanation. Historical values remain available through the change ledger rather than disappearing when the current record changes.