Clause 6.1.2.1: Hazard identification
The organization sets up, runs and keeps a continuous, forward-looking process to identify hazards.
What clause 6.1.2.1 asks
The organization sets up, runs and keeps a continuous, forward-looking process to identify hazards. It takes into account social factors and how work is organized, covering work organisation and workload, working hours, bullying, harassment and victimisation; leadership and the culture of the organization; human factors and how work is actually performed; routine and non-routine activities; past incidents; possible emergencies; workers, contractors, visitors and others; the design of workplaces, equipment and processes; changes; and changes to legal requirements, actual or proposed.
Hazard identification is continuous and forward looking. The listed inputs are the minimum, and the test is whether the process finds the hazard before it finds a worker.
Hazards of the home, the mobile workplace and the third place. The consultation release names physical, psychosocial and environmental risks, isolation and reduced access to supervision and support. The public scope covers mobile roles, client sites and other remote locations, not only the home, so the identification has to reach the workstation, the electrical supply, the environment, the journey, the lone-working situation and the boundary between work and rest. The release also says the guidance includes practical examples, flowcharts and checklists for hazard identification.
Basis: BSI, BSI Standards Development, Arinite. For clause 6.1.2.1, the public record is a draft guideline and does not state a requirement in terms that this site can quote. The clause 6.1.2.1 overlay is our reading of the public scope and the named summaries, not the draft text.
Evidence for clause 6.1.2.1
An auditor will follow one hazard from how it was found to how it was assessed and controlled, and will ask who reported it.
- Hazard identification Documented hazard identification procedure
- Hazard identification Hazard registers by site and activity
- Hazard identification Job hazard analyses / task risk assessments
- Hazard identification Records covering routine, non routine, emergency, contractor, visitor, public
- Hazard identification Psychosocial and ergonomic hazard assessments
- Hazard identification Worker reported hazard logs
Where clause 6.1.2.1 commonly fails
- Psychosocial and ergonomic hazards omitted
- Visitors, public and contractors not assessed
- Hazard ID treated as annual rather than ongoing
What to do about clause 6.1.2.1 before the guidance lands
Add a remote section to the hazard identification: workstation and display screen, electrical and fire, temperature, noise, lighting, security, violence and lone working, housekeeping, connectivity, workload, isolation and work-life boundary. Use a worker self-assessment as an input, not as the whole assessment.
For clause 6.1.2.1, do the work that will be right under either instrument. The current requirement for clause 6.1.2.1 is ISO 45001:2018, and the certificate, if you hold one, is issued against it. The clause 6.1.2.1 remote working preparation is an extension of the existing duty to a group of workers the system already covers, not a new system and not a reason to rebuild around a draft.
Read across from clause 6.1.2.1
← Clause 6.1.1 | Clause 6.1.2.2 →
Open the full index. The public record behind clause 6.1.2.1 shows the scope and the themes.
Source for clause 6.1.2.1: ISO 45001:2018, clause 6.1.2.1, retrieved 20 October 2026, record at the standards library. The clause 6.1.2.1 remote overlay rests on the public 45008 record named above. The clause 6.1.2.1 requirement, evidence and gaps are written from our clause record. Every source.