Framework overlap

Does ISO/IEC 38500:2024 cover ISO 45001:2018?

You hold ISO/IEC 38500:2024 and have been told to do ISO 45001:2018. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

41% of ISO 45001:2018 you already have

ISO/IEC 38500:2024 already covers about 41% of ISO 45001:2018, leaving 26 of 44 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 4 Likely covered 14 New work 26

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in ISO/IEC 38500:2024 reaches these. This is the list to scope.

5.4
Establishing Audit Programme
6.1.2.1
Hazard identification
6.1.2.2
Assessment of OH&S risks and other risks to the OH&S MS
6.1.2.3
Assessment of OH&S opportunities and other opportunities for the OH&S MS
7.5
Threat assessment
8.1.1
Operational planning and control, general
8.1.2
Eliminating hazards and reducing OH&S risks
8.1.4.1
Procurement, general
8.1.4.2
Contractors
8.1.4.3
Outsourcing
10.2
Incident, nonconformity and corrective action
10.3
Continual improvement
4.1
Understanding the organization and its context
4.2
Understanding the needs and expectations of workers and other interested parties
4.3
Determining the scope of the OH&S management system
5.1
Leadership and commitment
5.4
Consultation and participation of workers
6.1
Actions to address risks and opportunities
6.2
OH&S objectives and planning to achieve them
6.2.1
OH&S objectives ISO 45001:2018
7.4.2
Internal communication
7.4.3
External communication
7.5.3
Control of documented information
8.1
Operational planning and control
8.1.2
Eliminating hazards and reducing OH&S risks
9.1
Monitoring, measurement, analysis and performance evaluation
Show the 18 you already have
7.1
Resources
7.4
Communication
8.1.4
Procurement
9.3
Management review
8.1.3
Management of change
4.4
OH&S management system
5.2
OH&S policy
5.3
Organizational roles, responsibilities and authorities
6.2.2
Planning to achieve OH&S
7.2
Competence
7.3
Awareness
7.5
Documented information
7.5.2
Creating and updating
8.1.3
Management of change
8.2
Emergency preparedness and response
9.1.2
Evaluation of compliance
9.2
Internal audit
9.2.2
Internal audit programme

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in ISO/IEC 38500:2024 to that control. Likely covered means no direct mapping exists but both frameworks map to the same control in a third standard. New work means neither. We keep those separate rather than adding them into one friendlier number, because blending them would present a two-hop inference as a verified fact.

Coverage is not symmetric. Run it the other way and you will get a different number; both are correct.

From 332,959 cross-framework control mappings across 723 frameworks, 531 of them verified against their source documents. It does not tell you that you are compliant: a mapped control means the two standards ask for the same thing, not that you have done it.

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