Health and safety management system - summary table
Last reviewed: May 2026
This table is aligned with the ISO 45001:2018 - Occupational Health and Safety Management System.
ISO 45001 is an international standard that specifies requirements for an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system. It provides a framework for organisations to manage risks and improve OH&S performance.
The standard establishes criteria for an OH&S policy, objectives, planning, implementation, operation, auditing and review. Key elements include leadership commitment, worker participation, hazard identification and risk assessment, legal and regulatory compliance, emergency planning, incident investigation and continual improvement.
Context of the Organisation
| Category | Procedure/Guidance |
|---|---|
| Context of the organisation | |
| Scope of the OH&S management system | Health and Safety: Plans requirements |
Leadership and Worker Participation
| Category | Procedure/Guidance |
|---|---|
| OHS Policy | Health and Safety Policy |
| Roles, responsibilities and authorities | |
| Consultation and participation of workers | Health and Safety: Consultation, representation and committee requirements |
Planning for the OH&S Management System
| Category | Procedure/Guidance |
|---|---|
| Hazard identification and risk assessment | Health and Safety: Risk management requirements Health and Safety: Risk assessment methodology |
| UoM Health and Safety risk register | Health and Safety: UoM risk register |
| Legal requirements and other requirements | |
| Planning actions | |
| OHS objectives and targets | Health and Safety: Management Plan 2026 |
Support
| Category | Procedure/Guidance |
|---|---|
| Competence | Health and Safety: Training requirements Health and Safety: Training matrix |
| Awareness | Health and Safety: Induction checklist |
| Communication | Health and Safety: Communication requirements Health and Safety: External Feedback requirements |
| Documented information | Health and Safety: Management system documentation requirements Health and safety records at all levels are managed in accordance with the Records Management Policy (MPF1106). Document retention is based on The University of Melbourne Records Retention and Disposal Authority |
Operation
| Category | Procedure/Guidance |
|---|---|
| Incident/hazard reporting | Health and Safety: Incident, injury, hazard reporting and investigation requirements |
| Contractor management | |
| Purchasing | Health and Safety: Purchasing requirements |
| Emergency management | Health and Safety: Emergency preparedness and response requirements |
| First aid management | |
| Asbestos | |
| Manual handling | |
| Chemical management | |
| Ergonomics | |
| Radiation management | |
| Reproductive health | |
| Extreme temperature | |
| Working at heights | |
| Working alone | |
| Waste | |
| Confined space | |
| Hot work | |
| Personal protective equipment | Health and Safety: Personal protective equipment requirements |
| Electrical | Health and Safety: Electrical inspection and testing requirements |
| Isolation/tag out | Health and Safety: Isolation, lockout and tag out requirements |
| Plant and equipment | |
| Cooling tower | |
| Travel off campus and fieldwork | |
| Scientific diving | |
| Vehicule use | |
| Spill management |
Performance Evaluation
| Category | Procedure/Guidance |
|---|---|
| Workplace monitoring | Health and Safety: Workplace monitoring and inspection requirements |
| Health monitoring | |
| Internal audit | Health and Safety: Internal audit methodology Health and Safety: Internal audit process |
| Audit and system review | Health and Safety: Management system review and audit requirements |
Improvement
| Category | Procedure/Guidance |
|---|---|
| Incident investigation | Health and Safety: Incident, injury, hazard reporting and investigation requirements |
National self-insurer OHS management system audit tool (NAT)
The NAT defines the criteria that relevant regulators will use within their jurisdictions to assess a self-insurers OHSMS. SafeWork Victoria is using the NAT to audit the UoM OHSMS:
- Element 1: Health and safety policy
- Element 2: Planning
- Element 3: Implementation
- Element 4: Measurement and evaluation
- Element 5: Management review
You can access the full NAT audit tool here.