One procedure covering ISO 9001:2015 Clause 7.1.5, ISO 14001:2026 Clause 9.1.1 and ISO 45001:2018 Clause 9.1.1 — one register, one set of controls, and a purpose determination that decides which obligations attach to each item. It is not three documents stapled together.
01 · Three registers that quietly disagree
Three separate registers is what MSI most often finds, and the same thermocouple appears on the quality list and not the environmental one, or the stack analyser is calibrated to a permit schedule nobody in quality has seen. Purposes belong on the item, not on separate lists.
02 · The weakest standard is applied to everything
Faced with three different record obligations, most integrated systems quietly apply the least demanding one across the board. That leaves the 45001 calibration-record obligation unmet on safety-critical equipment and the 9001 traceability obligation unmet on product-critical equipment. The house standard resolves it: strictest across the register, recorded.
03 · One out-of-tolerance finding, three owners who never all hear
The same flow meter can accept product, feed a permit return and verify an extraction control. When it is found out of tolerance, the product owner, the environmental reporter and the safety function each need to hear — on three different clocks. Section 6.10 runs one assessment through three branches so none is missed.
Every appendix, form, map and worked example is part of the document. Nothing is sold separately.
Integrated management system managers, EHSQ leads and consultants at organizations certified to two or three of ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 who are currently running more than one equipment register.
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If you hold ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 but not ISO 45001, the Q/EMS file is a better fit and avoids paying for safety content you will not use. If you hold ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 but not ISO 9001, the HSE file fits. This IMS file is for organizations carrying all three.
It assigns each item one or more purposes — Q, E, S — and the purpose decides which obligations attach, which records must exist, and how long they are kept. A multi-purpose item carries every applicable obligation and the strictest retention, so a shared instrument stays visible to every function that relies on it.
Because three registers is what fails, and it fails predictably: an instrument appears on one list and not the others. One register with a purpose column keeps a shared instrument visible to all three functions, and Appendix E records every divergence between the standards and which one this procedure follows.
Both, deliberately. 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. You are editing a working document rather than filling in a hollow outline.
Editable Microsoft Word (.docx), with the process interaction map embedded in the document and supplied separately as an editable SVG. The license permits the buying organization to adapt and adopt it across its own sites and issue it to employees, contractors and auditors, and permits consultants to adapt it for engagements they deliver.
A procedure does not pass an audit; an organization does. What this gives you is a procedure that addresses every requirement of all three clauses with a named owner and a named record. Conformity is demonstrated by implementation and evidence. Unfilled placeholders are unmet requirements, so fill them.
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