ISO 45004:2024 Occupational health and safety management — Guidelines on performance evaluation
ISO 45004 guides organizations in establishing monitoring, measurement, analysis, evaluation, and indicators for occupational health and safety performance.
What the authority record establishes
ISO 45004 guides organizations in establishing monitoring, measurement, analysis, evaluation, and indicators for occupational health and safety performance.
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
It provides a useful test for whether EHS analytics connect indicators to intended results, data quality, interpretation, and improvement rather than producing a decorative dashboard.
Affected operating stages
- Measurement Design
- Data Collection
- Analysis
- Evaluation
- Management Review
- Continual Improvement
Capabilities to examine
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.
Incident And Near-Miss Reporting
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 incident and near-miss reporting.
Inspections, Observations, And Behavior-Based Safety
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 inspections, observations, and behavior-based safety.
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.
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
- EHS performance leaders
- operations executives
- analysts
- assurance and management-review 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
An indicator library does not establish data quality or causation. Metrics must retain definitions and denominators.