Can the ISO 45003 standard be used alone for certification?
March 2023
ISO 45003:2021 Standard (Occupational health and safety management – Psychological health and safety at work – Guidelines for managing psychosocial risks) provides guidelines for managing psychosocial risk within an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system based on ISO 45001. ISO 45003 Standard focuses on a specific type of OH&S risks, namely psychosocial risks, and therefore it is covering partially the OH&S risks applied within the context of an occupational health and safety management system. To this respect and given that an occupational health and safety management system is required to address all types of OH&S risks under the organization’s control, ISO 45003 is not suitable for stand-alone certification.
Note: The subject of this question is quite similar to Q39.2.