ISO 45001 and lifting equipment inspection: what the standard requires

ISO 45001

Certified to ISO 45001? The standard does not ask you to go digital. It asks you to prove it.

Worth saying plainly, because the opposite gets repeated a lot: ISO 45001 does not require digital traceability. Clause 7.5.2 accepts documented information in any format and on any media, paper included. What it does require is identifying the legal requirements that apply to you, evaluating whether you meet them, and retaining evidence of that evaluation. With two hundred items spread across several sites, paper stops holding up.

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6.1.3 · 9.1.2

Identify the applicable legal requirements and evaluate compliance with them, retaining documented evidence of the result.

Each item's inspection history, with the national rule that applies to it and its interval, is precisely that evidence.

7.5.2

Documented information counts in any format and on any media. Paper complies.

Going digital is not a requirement of the standard. It is what makes meeting it sustainable across hundreds of items and several sites.

7.5.3

Control documented information: distribution, access, retrieval, legibility, change control and retention.

Versioned documents, access by each person's role, and retrieval per item in one click.

9.1.1 · 10.2

Retain evidence of monitoring results and of incidents and nonconformities.

Every inspection with its checklist, its author, its date and its signature. A blocking check stays on record even when the item never leaves the store.

ISO 45001 is a voluntary certification, not a legal duty: it becomes binding when a client or a tender demands it. The duty to inspect the equipment, by contrast, exists with certification and without it.

ISO 45001

Certified to ISO 45001? The standard does not ask you to go digital. It asks you to prove it.

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