Modern approaches in integrated management systems of quality, environmental and occupational health and safety

Releasing of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards in 2015 represents a big step forward in managing quality and environmental issues on an integrated manner, optimizing the resources spent by the organization for this scope. This set of instruments becomes complete by the releasing, in 2018, of ISO 45001 "Occupational health and safety management systems - Requirements with guidance for use". The new international standard integrates the good practice gained by using former documents, such as ILO-OSH 2001 "Guidelines on occupational safety and health management systems" and OHSAS 18001 "Occupational health and safety management systems - Requirements". The strongest point of the triad represented by ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 is the similar structure of these standards, based on the ISO 10 core clauses of the High Level Structure. This characteristic leads to a high potential to integrate the quality, environmental and occupational health and safety requirements in a single integrated management system. Due to the novelty of these standards, it is necessary to develop new instruments to help organizations in implementing and assess the performance of the integrated management system. The paper presents a high level checklist, aimed on auditing an integrated management system based on ISO 9001: 2015, ISO 14001: 2015 and ISO 45001: 2018. This tool could be used for an integral audit, against all three standards, or just for a partial audit, against one or two standards. In order to optimise the resources allocated for the audits, the checklist should be used together with an IT tool, also elaborated by the authors and described in the paper, which can provide several important functions such as automation of scores, synthesize of the results and digital archiving of the information.