A.6 Planning: guidance, not a requirement
Annex A.6 explains hazard identification, risk and opportunity assessment, legal requirements, planning action and objectives. It is guidance, not a requirement, and it is where most of the draft's expected change is concentrated.
What the guidance covers
- How to identify hazards continuously, including psychosocial, ergonomic, remote-work and climate-related hazards
- How to assess OH&S risks and opportunities, and the risks and opportunities to the system itself
- How to determine legal and other requirements and keep them current
- How to plan action in the hierarchy of controls and set objectives that can be measured
How to use it
Use A.6 when the risk register has become a scoring exercise. The guidance supports a simpler test: what can harm someone, what is already in place, how do we know it works, and what are we doing about it. It also supports the link from a legal requirement to the hazard it governs.
What it does not add
A.6 does not require a particular scoring method, a five-by-five matrix or a risk number. It does not make every hazard a documented risk. The requirements remain in Clause 6.
The public 45008 record does not state a treatment for this annex, and this site does not invent one. The annex remains informative guidance to ISO 45001:2018. The remote working overlay on the site is written from the public 45008 record and is kept separate from the clause requirement.
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Source for Annex A.6: ISO 45001:2018, Annex A, informative, retrieved 20 October 2026. The 45008 note is limited to what the public record states. Every source.