ISO 45001:2018 · $149 · Editable Word format
ISO 45001 is the only one of these standards that puts incidents in the title of the clause, and the difference is not cosmetic. Clause 10.2 governs incidents and nonconformities together, which means a near miss with no injury and no damage is inside the process, not adjacent to it.
This is a complete Clause 10 procedure — improvement, incident and nonconformity and corrective action, and continual improvement — in editable Word format, written as a filled-in worked example with bracketed placeholders where values are yours to set.
Four requirements in this clause that procedures written from a quality template lose entirely.
Worker participation is mandatory. Clause 10.2(b) requires the need for corrective action to be evaluated with the participation of workers and the involvement of other relevant interested parties. Not consulted afterward. Not informed of the outcome. Participating in the evaluation. A cause analysis performed by a safety manager alone does not meet this, however good the analysis is.
The hierarchy of controls governs the action. Clause 10.2(d) requires action to be determined and implemented in accordance with the hierarchy of controls and the management of change process. The default answer to almost every incident is retraining and personal protective equipment, which sit at the bottom of that hierarchy. The standard requires elimination and substitution to be considered first, and requires the record to show they were.
Hazards created by the fix. Clause 10.2(e) requires assessment of OH&S risks relating to new or changed hazards prior to taking action. A guard installed to prevent one injury introduces a maintenance access problem. The assessment happens before implementation, and this procedure puts it there.
Distribution, not just retention. Clause 10.2 requires the documented information to be communicated to relevant workers, to workers' representatives where they exist, and to other relevant interested parties. That is a distribution obligation inside a records requirement, and a filed record satisfies half of it.
Safety managers, EHS leads, and consultants at ISO 45001 certified or certifying organizations. Particularly useful where incident investigation and nonconformity management run as separate systems, where corrective actions default to retraining, and where worker participation is documented as consultation after the fact.
10.1, 10.2, 10.3
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The combined variants below are a different product: one integrated procedure rather than several separate documents, with an integration decision record recording every divergence between the standards.
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| ISO 13485 | $149 |
| ISO 14001:2026 | $149 |
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| HSE (14001 + 45001) | $249 |
| Q/EMS (9001 + 14001) | $249 |
| Integrated (9001 + 14001 + 45001) | $249 |
Both, and that is deliberate. It is written as a filled-in worked example so you can see what each element looks like when done properly, with bracketed placeholders wherever a value is genuinely yours to set — severity thresholds, roles, systems, intervals, retention periods. You are editing a working document rather than filling in a hollow outline.
Editable Microsoft Word (.docx), with a PDF copy. Where a process interaction map is included, it ships as an editable SVG alongside the embedded image. Adapt it, rebrand it, adopt it into your document control system. Yours to use.
A procedure does not pass an audit; an organization does. What this gives you is a procedure that addresses every requirement of the clause with a named owner and a named record, and that describes a process people can actually follow. Conformity is demonstrated by implementation and evidence — a perfect document over an operation that ignores it is still a finding. Unfilled placeholders are unmet requirements, so fill them.
No. Each covers the improvement clause of its standard in full, plus control of nonconforming output where the standard has such a clause. They are one procedure in a management system, and they reference the neighboring processes — document control, internal audit, complaint handling, risk management, management review — rather than replacing them.
Correction addresses the thing in front of you: scrap it, rework it, contain it, tell the customer. Corrective action removes the cause so it does not happen again. Every standard in this family requires both, and treats them as separate obligations. The common failure is one form doing both jobs, which lets a disposition record close a finding without any cause ever being examined. These templates keep them as two records with a stated trigger between them, which is usually the single biggest change an organization makes when adopting one.
A form captures what happened. A procedure decides what happens next — which findings get a cause analysis and which do not, who is allowed to decide, how long the organization has, what evidence closes it, and what happens when the check fails. Most systems have a good form sitting on top of an unstated process, which is why closure rates look healthy while the same findings keep coming back.
Every cross-reference is in a table at the back rather than baked into the body text, precisely so you can renumber without unpicking the procedure.
Take the template for the standard you are certified to. If you run more than one management system through one improvement process, take the matching combined variant — Device for ISO 9001 with ISO 13485, HSE for ISO 14001 with ISO 45001, Integrated for all three of quality, environment, and safety. If you are unsure, the free Nonconformity and Corrective Action Maturity Check will show you where your current process actually sits before you spend anything.
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