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ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety Awareness Training

A practical, visual introduction to ISO 45001, the international standard for occupational health and safety management systems. Learn what a safety management system actually is, how it differs from your legal duties under WHS law, how the standard is structured around the Plan Do Check Act cycle, what it requires on worker participation and consultation, how hazards, risks and opportunities are handled and what happens in an internal audit and a certification audit. Written for people who work in a certified organisation, or one heading that way, with no management system background assumed.
What You Will Learn
- Explain what an occupational health and safety management system is, and how ISO 45001 relates to your legal duties under WHS law
- Describe how the standard is structured and how the Plan Do Check Act cycle drives it
- Identify what ISO 45001 requires on leadership, worker participation and consultation
- Describe how hazards, risks and opportunities are identified and controlled inside a management system
- Recognise how performance is monitored, audited and improved, and what your part is in an audit
Course Content
- ISO 45001 in plain English
- By the end of this course, you'll be able to:
- A management system is how safety gets managed on purpose
- ISO 45001 is the international standard for that system
- The standard is not the law, and the law does not go away
- Why organisations put a system in
- Seven clauses carry the requirements
- The seven requirement clauses
- Underneath it all is Plan, Do, Check, Act
- Context means looking outward before you plan
- Documented information, kept useful
- Leadership has to be visible, not delegated
- Worker participation is what makes ISO 45001 distinctive
- What the organisation has to clear out of the way
- Consultation done well, and done badly
- This lines up with what WHS law already asks
- Finding hazards is an ongoing process, not an annual event
- Risks and opportunities both get assessed
- Controls are chosen in order of how well they work
- Reading the hierarchy correctly
- Legal requirements are part of planning
- A system that is never checked is not a system
- The internal audit, step by step
- Incidents and nonconformities feed the system
- Management review puts it in front of the decision makers
- Certification is a separate thing again
- Now put it together
- A certified site, an ordinary week
- The five things to carry away
Who This Course Is For
Workers, supervisors, managers and contractors in an organisation certified to ISO 45001 or working towards certification and anyone who wants to understand what the standard asks of them.
Written by Kam Askari, Managing Director of Creative Directions Management Consulting Pty Ltd, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 Lead Auditor. MBA, Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety, MAICD. Checked against the sources listed below.
Sources and Legal References
This course is aligned to 10 official sources. Legal and regulatory references checked between 31 August 2026 and 3 October 2026.
Sources and Further Reading
This course draws on the following official sources. Always rely on the current version on the regulator’s website.
- Australian StandardISO 45001:2018, Occupational health and safety management systems — Requirements with guidance for useAs at 31/08/2026
- Australian StandardISO 45001:2018/Amd 1:2024, Occupational health and safety management systems — Requirements with guidance for use — Amendment 1: Climate action changesAs at 31/08/2026
- LegislationOccupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic)As at 02/09/2026
- LegislationOccupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 (Vic)As at 02/09/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2020 (WA)As at 02/09/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety (General) Regulations 2022 (WA)As at 02/09/2026
- Australian StandardISO 14001As at 03/09/2026
- Australian StandardISO 9001As at 03/09/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2011 No 10 (NSW)As at 03/10/2026
- Code of PracticeCode of Practice: Work health and safety consultation, cooperation and coordination (NSW), SafeWork NSW, December 2022As at 03/10/2026
Always rely on the current version on the regulator’s website.
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What You Get
Certificate of Completion
This is to certify that
has successfully completed
All learning modules and the final assessment
Kam Askari
Director, Creative Directions Management Consulting Pty Ltd
This is a certificate of completion of a non-accredited professional development course. It is not a nationally recognised qualification, a VET statement of attainment, a competency card, a licence, or evidence of competency. It is issued by Creative Directions Management Consulting Pty Ltd, which is not a Registered Training Organisation.
Sample layout. Certificate ID WP-SAMPLE-0001 verifies as Hazardous Manual Tasks and Manual Handling Safety.
- Certificate verified by its ID
- 100% online, self-paced
- Six months of access
Bought for yourself: six months of access from the day you pay. Team seat: six months from the day the worker activates their code.
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