Clause 6.1.2.3: Assessment of OH&S opportunities and other opportunities for the OH&S MS
Set up, run and keep processes that assess two kinds of opportunity: OH&S opportunities to raise OH&S performance, with planned changes taken into account, and opportunities to make the OH&S MS itself better.
What clause 6.1.2.3 asks
Set up, run and keep processes that assess two kinds of opportunity: OH&S opportunities to raise OH&S performance, with planned changes taken into account, and opportunities to make the OH&S MS itself better.
Opportunities are the other half of planning. They are the changes that make work safer or healthier, not the absence of a hazard, and they need the same record and owner as a risk.
Remote work can remove barriers as well as create risk. Remote work can widen access to work for people with a disability, caring responsibilities or a long commute, and it can support concentration and work-life balance. The ISO abstract itself names balance between work and life. The opportunity side of the clause should capture those gains and the changes needed to keep them, rather than treating remote work only as a hazard.
Basis: ISO, BSI. For clause 6.1.2.3, the public record is a draft guideline and does not state a requirement in terms that this site can quote. The clause 6.1.2.3 overlay is our reading of the public scope and the named summaries, not the draft text.
Evidence for clause 6.1.2.3
An auditor will ask for an opportunity that was assessed, resourced and measured, and for the change it made to a hazard or a control.
- Opportunities Opportunities register
- Opportunities Linkage to objectives and improvement plans
- Opportunities Records of opportunities considered during change planning
Where clause 6.1.2.3 commonly fails
- Opportunities section blank or trivial
- Not refreshed when changes are planned
What to do about clause 6.1.2.3 before the guidance lands
Add remote-working opportunities to the register: access to work, reduced commuting, flexible hours, focused work and continuity of operations. Give each one an owner and a condition, and check that the arrangement does not transfer cost or risk to the worker.
For clause 6.1.2.3, do the work that will be right under either instrument. The current requirement for clause 6.1.2.3 is ISO 45001:2018, and the certificate, if you hold one, is issued against it. The clause 6.1.2.3 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 6.1.2.3
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Open the full index. The public record behind clause 6.1.2.3 shows the scope and the themes.
Source for clause 6.1.2.3: ISO 45001:2018, clause 6.1.2.3, retrieved 20 October 2026, record at the standards library. The clause 6.1.2.3 remote overlay rests on the public 45008 record named above. The clause 6.1.2.3 requirement, evidence and gaps are written from our clause record. Every source.