ISO 45001:2018 / Amd 1:2024 OHSMS Gap Analysis Tool with Climate Change update

ISO 45001: 2018 Gap Analysis Toolkit

This ISO45001:2018 Gap Analysis Workbook is a professionally designed digital tool built for consultants, auditors and organisations seeking a structured, efficient approach to compliance assessment and system improvement.

Your step-by-step guide to a safer, audit-ready workplace. This structured Excel toolkit covers every OH&S requirement from hazard identification and worker consultation through to corrective action including the 2024 climate change amendment. Track your compliance status clause by clause, assign owners, and monitor progress toward certification on a live scoring dashboard. At its core is a fully integrated Checklist covering all 65 clauses, with corrected sub-clause alignment and a practical assessment framework.

• Mandatory and Conditional requirements are clearly defined, supported by six dedicated evaluation fields:
  • Status
  • Gap Description
  • Owner
  • Target Date
  • Evidence Sighted
  • CAR Reference
• A built-in dropdown status system (Conforming, Partial, Gap, N/A) drives automatic color-coded visualisation, while real-time summary totals and a live conformance score provide immediate performance insight.
• The Dashboard delivers a high-level, view of compliance: Six KPI indicators track overall performance, including conformance percentage and clause status distribution.
  • A clause-by-clause breakdown (Clauses 4–10) highlights performance trends using traffic-light scoring thresholds, supporting targeted decision-making and prioritisation.
• Integrated guidance aligned to corrective action processes (Clause 10.2) reinforces best-practice gap management. Supporting tabs ensure usability and audit readiness.
• The Instructions tab provides clear definitions, scoring methodology and justification requirements, ensuring consistency in application.
• The Clause Reference tab offers a locked, read-only set of all clauses for independent auditor review, maintaining data integrity and separation from assessment inputs.

Designed for practical implementation, this workbook streamlines gap analysis, strengthens audit preparation, and enhances ongoing compliance management making it a valuable, ready-to-use resource for ISO-aligned systems.

NOTE: On 23 February 2024, ISO published a climate change amendment across multiple standards simultaneously, including ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001. The amendment added identical text to all three: Clause 4.1 now requires organisations to determine whether climate change is a relevant issue and a note was added to Clause 4.2 that interested parties can have requirements related to climate change.