Clause 8.2: Emergency preparedness and response
The organization sets up, runs and keeps the processes it needs to get ready for, and respond to, possible emergencies identified under 6.1.2.1.
What clause 8.2 asks
The organization sets up, runs and keeps the processes it needs to get ready for, and respond to, possible emergencies identified under 6.1.2.1. This includes: setting a planned response, first aid included; training people in that response; testing and exercising the capability to respond at intervals; assessing how the response performed and revising it after tests and after real emergencies; telling workers what their duties and responsibilities are; passing relevant information, as appropriate, to contractors, visitors, emergency services, government authorities and the local community; and, when the planned response is developed, taking account of what every relevant interested party needs and is able to do. Documented information on the processes and the plans is kept.
Emergency planning has to cover the scenarios the hazard identification actually found, not a generic fire drill. The clause requires testing, evaluation, revision and communication beyond the workforce.
An emergency plan for a place you do not control. A remote worker may be alone, in another country, in a building whose fire arrangements belong to someone else, or without the first-aid support that exists on site. The public consultation names lone working and reduced supervision, and the scope includes client sites and mobile roles. The emergency process has to cover the worker's location, the contact route and the check-in that raises an alarm.
Basis: BSI, BSI Standards Development. For clause 8.2, the public record is a draft guideline and does not state a requirement in terms that this site can quote. The clause 8.2 overlay is our reading of the public scope and the named summaries, not the draft text.
Evidence for clause 8.2
An auditor will compare the emergency scenarios with the hazard register, and ask what changed after the last exercise.
- Emergency preparedness Emergency plans per identified scenario including first aid
- Emergency preparedness Drill and exercise records with evaluations
- Emergency preparedness Revisions to plans after drills and real events
- Emergency preparedness Training records for response roles
- Emergency preparedness Communication to contractors, visitors and external services
Where clause 8.2 commonly fails
- Plans cover fire only, not the scenarios identified in hazard identification
- Drills held but never evaluated or used to revise the plan
- Visitors and contractors not covered
What to do about clause 8.2 before the guidance lands
For each remote group, record the emergency scenarios, the local arrangements, the first-aid and medical route, the check-in and the escalation. Give the worker a personal emergency plan where the risk requires it, and test the check-in.
For clause 8.2, do the work that will be right under either instrument. The current requirement for clause 8.2 is ISO 45001:2018, and the certificate, if you hold one, is issued against it. The clause 8.2 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 8.2
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Open the full index. The public record behind clause 8.2 shows the scope and the themes.
Source for clause 8.2: ISO 45001:2018, clause 8.2, retrieved 20 October 2026, record at the standards library. The clause 8.2 remote overlay rests on the public 45008 record named above. The clause 8.2 requirement, evidence and gaps are written from our clause record. Every source.