Keeping policy, objectives and documented information under one roof
The planned scope is designed to keep the context of the organisation, its policy and objectives, its process owners and its documented information in one structure, and to produce input for the management review from them.
This page is written for organisations that want to run more than one standard through a single system.
What it does
Management system standards share a common structure, and as documents multiply that shared structure is the first thing lost. The planned scope aims to keep it in one place.
- Policy and objectives in the recordThe revision of the policy, and the owner and measure of each objective, are designed to sit in the same record.
- Documented information keeps its revisionThe revision history of procedures and instructions is to be kept, with the version in force made plain.
- Process owners are definedEach process is to carry its owner and inputs in the record, with responsibility tied to a role rather than to a person.
- Review input arrives assembledAudit findings, objective status and non-conformities are planned to be gathered as input to the management review.
- Several standards in one structureCommon clauses are to be held once and standard-specific ones separately, so that documents are not duplicated.
How it connects
The management system feeds on the resources and module below.
- ISO 45001 topic hubThe reference page for occupational health and safety management system requirements.
- What a management system isThe definition of the term and what it covers.
- The common high-level structureThe clause structure that standards share.
- Legal tracking moduleThe register of legal requirements is a direct input to the system.
- OHS documentation guideA guide to which record is kept where.
A system that does not stay on paper
In many places a management system turns into a set of folders: written, produced at the audit, then left to wait. A system only works if its records are fed by daily work.
The planned scope therefore aims to place policy, objectives and documented information on the same structure as the audit, incident and legal records.
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