Managing psychological health and safety at work – an overview of ISO 45003 and how it can help organizations

Date: 26 June 2020

Time: 3 pm - 4 pm BST

This webinar is an overview of ISO 45003, the first international standard of its type. It supports ISO 45001, which sets out a framework for an Occupational Health & Safety management system, offering additional guidance on a particular Occupational Health & Safety area which most organizations struggle to manage effectively.

Psychological health and safety of workers has become the most challenging aspect of occupational health and safety in the UK and around the world. Even before the pandemic, work-related mental health issues cost the UK economy £35 billion a year: now that figure is likely to rise even further.

Managing the psychological health of workers effectively during the current crisis will help organizations to recover more quickly and be more sustainable for the future.

Agenda

1. Welcome and overview of ISO/TC 283, Martin Cottam

2. Overview of ISO 45001, Martin Cottam

3. Overview of ISO 45003, Stavroula Leka

4. Who is involved in developing ISO 45003, how it is being written and timelines, Sally Swingewood

5. Practical hints and tips for managing psychological health during the current crisis, Martin Cottam, Stavroula Leka, Sally Swingewood

6. Q&A

7. Summary and Close, Martin Cottam, Sally Swingewood

Our speakers:

Martin Cottam

Martin is Group Technical Assurance and Quality Director, with overall responsibility for quality management and technical governance across Lloyd’s Register, one of the world’s leading providers of professional services for engineering and technology – improving safety and increasing the performance of critical infrastructures world-wide.
Martin is an engineering risk management specialist. He began his career in the nuclear industry, undertaking risk assessment and safety case preparation before joining Lloyd’s Register in 1990, to undertake both nuclear and non-nuclear risk management studies. He has risk assessment and safety management experience across many major hazard industries.
Martin has contributed to the development of several OH&S management system standards including OHSAS 18001 and ISO 45001, and the ISO 55000 series on Asset Management.

Martin is a member of BSI’s Management Systems Expert Group. He chaired the BSI mirror committee throughout the development of ISO 45001, leading the UK delegation on the ISO 45001 project committee. He now chairs the ISO technical committee for occupational health and safety management (ISO/TC 283), which owns ISO 45001 and is developing additional standards and guidance on OH&S management.

Sally Swingewood

Sally is BSI’s Lead Standards Development Manager for business improvement and occupational health and safety management. She is responsible for working with both national and international experts to develop documents that help organizations of all types to improve the way they operate and to better protect the people who work for them.

Sally engages with a broad range of stakeholders to ensure the widest possible views are taken into account when the UK inputs to international standards and frequently holds public meetings to encourage users of the standards to raise issues and propose improvements.

Sally is the manager of the ISO technical committee responsible for the world’s first international standard on occupational health and safety management, ISO 45001, and is actively involved in the development of ISO 45003 (guidance on psychological health and safety at work) which will also be the first globally agreed standard of its type.

Stavroula Leka

Stavroula Leka is Professor of Work Organization & Well-being at the Business School of University College Cork in Ireland. She is also Special Professor of Work, Health & Policy at the University of Nottingham. Stavroula is Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health, member of the Executive Committee of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology and of the Board of the International Commission on Occupational Health. Key themes in her research are work organisation and the management of the psychological and social (psychosocial) work environment for business and societal sustainability; the management of psychosocial risks and work-related stress; and the promotion of mental health and well-being in the workplace.

She is associate editor for the journal Safety Science and sits on the editorial board of three additional international journals. She has been keynote speaker to a number of international conferences and is expert advisor to the European Commission, the WHO, the ILO, the European Agency for Safety & Health at Work and the European Parliament. She has also been awarded an early career achievement award by the American Psychological Association for outstanding contribution in occupational health psychology and the study of work-related stress. She is technical co-author of PAS1010 ‘Guidance of psychosocial risks in the workplace’ by BSI. She is currently co-convening a working group developing ISO 45003, a guidance standard on psychological health and safety in the workplace.