Organizations devote considerable resources to protecting worker safety and ensuring healthy workplaces. For both business and financial reasons, many go beyond the minimum requirements set by occupational health and safety laws. Organizations with effective safety and health programs earn positive returns on their health and safety investment by :

1. Reducing work-related incidents and ill health and the costs associated with them;
2. Improving performance through heightened employee morale and adherence to policies and procedures; and
3. Reinforcing a responsible and well customers, stakeholders, and communities.

ISO 45001 (Occupational Health and safety Assessment Series) is intended to help an organization, to control occupational health and safety risks. It is applicable to any organization that wishes to :

1. Establish an OH&S management system to eliminate or minimize risk to employees and other interested parties who may be exposed to OH&S associated with its activities ;
2. Assure itself of its conformance with its stated OH&S policy; implement, maintain and continually improve an OH&S management system. And
3. Seek certification/registration of its OH&S management system by an external organization.