ISO 45001 Consultant and OH&S Management System Support in Canada

Calgary Safety Consultants provides practical ISO 45001 consulting and OH&S management system support based on your organization’s current program, goals, workforce, work activities, documentation, and readiness level.

Our support may include:

• ISO 45001 gap reviews.
• OH&S management system development.
• Safety manual and documentation review.
• Policy and procedure alignment.
• Leadership responsibility review.
• Worker participation and consultation support.
• Hazard identification and operational control review.
• Training, communication, and recordkeeping review.
• Incident reporting and corrective action process review.
• Emergency planning and response documentation review.
• Management review and performance monitoring support.
• Certification readiness preparation.
• Implementation guidance for managers, supervisors, workers, safety representatives, and administrative staff.

We start by learning about your organization, current safety program, documentation, leadership structure, work activities, client requirements, audit goals, and whether you are pursuing certification or using ISO 45001 as an improvement framework.

We can review your safety manual, policies, procedures, hazard assessments, inspections, training records, emergency response plans, incident reporting process, corrective action records, meeting minutes, objectives, communication practices, and management review process.

From there, we identify what already works, what is missing, what is outdated, and what may not reflect actual workplace conditions.

Where needed, we help develop or update policies, procedures, forms, registers, tracking tools, and supporting documents.

This may include leadership responsibilities, worker consultation, hazard assessment processes, legal requirement tracking, objectives, inspections, incident reporting, corrective actions, contractor management, emergency planning, internal review, and document control.

We can also help your team understand how to use the updated system in daily operations.

This service does not replace the employer’s responsibility to manage workplace health and safety. Employers remain responsible for identifying hazards, controlling risks, training workers, supervising work, maintaining records, completing inspections, correcting deficiencies, consulting with workers, and keeping the OH&S management system current.

Calgary Safety Consultants does not act as the ISO 45001 certification body. Our role is to provide consulting support, help identify gaps, improve documentation, support implementation, and help your organization prepare for management system improvement or certification readiness.

The right ISO 45001 consultant leaves you with a system your supervisors can run without calling for help every week.

• Real OH&S field experienceThe standard is easy to read and harder to apply. Look for someone who has worked through hazard assessments, incident investigations and supervisor coaching on real job sites and shop floors.
• Audit experienceSomeone who audits safety systems knows what evidence an auditor will ask for and where systems usually fall short.
• Knowledge of provincial OHS lawISO 45001 expects you to identify and meet your legal requirements. In Western Canada, that means knowing how the Alberta, BC and Saskatchewan rules differ, especially if your crews work across provincial borders.
• A system sized for your businessA 25-person contractor doesn’t need the same paperwork as a large manufacturer. Ask how the consultant will keep your system lean and usable.
• A clear line between consulting and certificationYour consultant shouldn’t be the one certifying you, and should tell you that upfront.

John Duplessis, B.Sc., CRSP, leads our ISO 45001 work. He has over 30 years in occupational health and safety, is an external auditor with Energy Safety Canada and is a certified COR auditor, so he knows how a safety system holds up when an auditor starts asking for evidence.

We work with employers in construction, transportation, warehousing, manufacturing, agriculture, resource support, healthcare, municipal operations, utilities and contracting, from Calgary, Edmonton and Red Deer to Vancouver, Kelowna, Saskatoon and Regina. Many come to us because an owner or major customer has started asking for ISO 45001 during prequalification. If you already hold COR or SECOR, our COR and SECOR consulting support and ISO 45001 work can be planned together so you aren’t maintaining two separate systems.