ISO 45001 Safety Management Software
Support your ISO 45001 occupational health and safety system with incident capture, CAPA workflows, controlled procedures, and audit-ready scheduling evidence.
ISO 45001 is the international standard for occupational health and safety management systems, published by ISO in 2018 to give organizations a framework for preventing work-related injury and ill health. It matters because it replaced OHSAS 18001 as the globally recognized benchmark, ties safety to top-management accountability and worker participation, and is increasingly a contractual requirement from customers who will not place orders with a supplier that cannot demonstrate a managed safety system. WorkCell does not hold an ISO 45001 certificate, but its quality, scheduling, and shop-floor modules generate the operational evidence (incident records, corrective actions, controlled procedures, training and shift data) that an ISO 45001 management system runs on.
Sound Familiar?
Incident and near-miss records scattered across paper and email
Operators report a near-miss to a supervisor who writes it on a clipboard, the injury log lives in a separate HR spreadsheet, and the corrective action sits in someone's inbox, so when an auditor asks for the trend on a specific machine or process nobody can produce it without a week of digging.
Corrective actions that never close the loop
A hazard gets flagged, a fix gets promised, and then the action stacks up in a backlog with no owner, no due date, and no effectiveness check, so the same slip, trip, or guarding issue resurfaces and the ISO 45001 surveillance audit writes up a finding you already paid to fix.
Procedures and work instructions out of sync with the floor
The controlled safety procedure says one thing, the routing the operator actually follows says another, and the revision posted at the workstation is two versions behind, so your management of change process exists on paper but not in the work people perform every shift.
No link between who was trained, who was scheduled, and who did the work
Competence and worker participation are core ISO 45001 clauses, but training sign-offs live in one binder, the shift roster lives in another, and the labor record for a job lives in a third, so proving the person who ran a hazardous operation was qualified and authorized turns into a reconstruction project.
Core Capabilities
Incident, near-miss, and nonconformance capture
Log safety incidents, near-misses, and hazards as first-class records tied to the work order, operation, resource, or location where they happened, with severity classification and a clear status from open through investigation to closed, so your ISO 45001 incident data lives in the same system as the work it relates to instead of a side spreadsheet.
Corrective and preventive action (CAPA) workflow
Corrective actions open from any incident, audit finding, or nonconformance with an NCR severity matrix and an 8-D style CAPA flow covering containment, root cause, corrective action, and effectiveness verification, so every hazard closes with documented owner, due date, and evidence the fix actually worked.
Controlled procedures and management of change
Engineering change control runs through versioned BOMs and routings with effective dating, so when a safety procedure or operation method changes the controlled revision and its effective date are recorded, and the work order locks to the exact routing version the operator was meant to follow.
Competence, scheduling, and worker participation evidence
Shift scheduling and labor tickets tie each operator to the operations they ran, with accrual-based time-off and shift records, so you can show which qualified person was scheduled and authorized for a given hazardous operation and demonstrate the worker-participation and competence evidence ISO 45001 expects.
Operation-level traceability for investigations
Hierarchical work orders with operation-level resource and costing, plus end-to-end lot and serial traceability with QC hold states, mean an incident investigation can pull the full context of a job: the machine, the operator, the material lot, the routing revision, and the inspection results, all from one record set.
Audit-ready documentation and history
Every incident, CAPA, controlled procedure revision, inspection, and shift record is queryable by date range, location, resource, or person, so internal and certification-body auditors pull objective evidence directly from WorkCell instead of chasing binders, and the dashboard builder turns that data into the trend views a management review needs.
By The Numbers
Work-related deaths each year globally, the human cost ISO 45001 management systems exist to reduce
International Labour Organization (ILO)
ISO 45001 certificates issued worldwide, making it one of the fastest-growing ISO management system standards
ISO Survey 2022
Nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses recorded by US private industry employers in a single year
US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
Connected Modules
Quality
Incidents, nonconformances, and CAPAs live as first-class objects with severity classification and effectiveness verification, tied to the work orders, resources, and lots they relate to.
Scheduling
Shift scheduling, accrual-based time-off, and labor tickets tie each operator to the operations they ran, providing the competence and worker-participation evidence ISO 45001 expects.
Shop floor
Operation-level work orders with resource and costing context give safety investigations the machine, operator, material, and routing detail behind any incident.
Common Questions
What is ISO 45001?
ISO 45001 is the international standard for occupational health and safety (OH&S) management systems, published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 2018. It gives organizations a framework to identify hazards, control risks, prevent work-related injury and ill health, and continually improve safety performance, with strong emphasis on leadership accountability and worker participation. It replaced the older OHSAS 18001 standard.
Who issues ISO 45001 and who has to comply?
ISO 45001 is published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Compliance is voluntary in the sense that no law mandates the certificate, but in practice manufacturers, contractors, and suppliers increasingly need it to win business, since many primes and large buyers require their supply chain to operate a certified OH&S management system. Any organization with workers exposed to occupational risk can adopt it, regardless of size or sector.
What is the difference between ISO 45001 and OHSAS 18001?
ISO 45001 replaced OHSAS 18001 as the recognized occupational health and safety standard. The biggest changes are the High-Level Structure shared with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 (making integrated management systems easier), a stronger focus on organizational context and risk-based thinking, explicit top-management leadership requirements, and a much greater emphasis on worker consultation and participation. Organizations certified to OHSAS 18001 were required to migrate to ISO 45001.
Is WorkCell ISO 45001 certified?
No. WorkCell is a manufacturing ERP, not a certification body, and it does not hold an ISO 45001 certificate. What WorkCell provides is the operational system of record that supports your ISO 45001 management system: incident and near-miss capture, CAPA workflows, controlled procedures via routing versioning, and the scheduling and shop-floor data that documents competence and worker participation.
How does WorkCell support ISO 45001 compliance?
WorkCell captures safety incidents, near-misses, and nonconformances as records tied to the specific work order, operation, resource, or location involved, then drives corrective action through an NCR severity matrix and 8-D style CAPA flow with effectiveness verification. Engineering change control via versioned BOMs and routings with effective dating handles management of change, while shift scheduling and labor tickets link qualified operators to the operations they performed. All of it is queryable for audits and management reviews.
Does ISO 45001 require corrective action tracking?
Yes. ISO 45001 requires organizations to react to incidents and nonconformities, evaluate the need for action to eliminate root causes, implement corrective action, and review its effectiveness. WorkCell's CAPA workflow covers exactly that cycle (containment, root cause, corrective action, and effectiveness verification) and keeps every action linked to the incident or finding that triggered it, with an owner, due date, and closure evidence.
ISO 45001 Safety Management Software
Give your ISO 45001 management system one source of truth for incidents, actions, and evidence.