Guidelines on occupational safety and health management systems, ILO-OSH 2001
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.
What the authority record establishes
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.
Nonbinding guidance unless adopted through law, policy, or organizational commitment
The exact official title, issuing body, jurisdiction, version or application record, and linked source define the scope of this page. Readers should not transfer the authority's status to a commercial product or infer transaction-, patient-, system-, site-, or organization-specific applicability from this summary.
Why it matters to this market
The guidance supplies a durable operating model for evaluating whether technology supports participation, responsibility, planning, evaluation, and improvement rather than merely collecting forms.
Affected operating stages
- Policy
- Organizing
- Planning And Implementation
- Evaluation
- Action For Improvement
Capabilities to examine
Worker Engagement, Mobile, And Connected-Worker Workflows
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for worker engagement, mobile, and connected-worker workflows.
Hazard Identification And Risk Assessment
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for hazard identification and risk assessment.
Audits And Assurance
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for audits and assurance.
Corrective And Preventive Action
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for corrective and preventive action.
Analytics, Leading Indicators, And Performance Evaluation
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for analytics, leading indicators, and performance evaluation.
Management-System Records And Document Control
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for management-system records and document control.
Affected buyer audiences
- governments and competent institutions
- employers
- workers and representatives
- OSH management-system leaders
Implementation questions
- Which entities, products, populations, transactions, systems, sites, or jurisdictions are actually within scope?
- What is binding, what is guidance, and what is a technical or consensus standard?
- Which publication, adoption, effective, application, transition, and enforcement dates differ?
- Who owns legal, clinical, quality, regulatory, policy, or operational interpretation?
- How will a source revision affect open work and historical decisions?
Interpretation boundary
ILO guidance does not replace applicable national law or prove organizational performance.