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ISO 45003:2021 Occupational health and safety management — Psychological health and safety at work — Guidelines for managing psychosocial risks

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.

Published and currentVoluntary guidance

What the authority record establishes

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.

Voluntary guidance

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 standard widens buyer questions beyond physical incidents and requires careful separation between workforce surveys, case management, organizational risk controls, clinical care, and sensitive personal data.

Affected operating stages

  • Context
  • Worker Consultation
  • Psychosocial Hazard Identification
  • Risk Assessment
  • Control
  • Monitoring
  • Improvement

Capabilities to examine

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.

Occupational Health And Case Management

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 occupational health and case management.

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.

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.

Affected buyer audiences

  • OH&S and worker-wellbeing leaders
  • human resources
  • operations leaders
  • risk and assurance teams

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

The publication does not provide mental-health diagnosis or care advice, and a software feature does not establish effective psychosocial-risk management.