RBA Conformity Schemes

Criterion: Occupational Health and Safety

Version 4.1.0 | Status: Active
Supersedes: 4.0.0
UN conformity topic code:

Aggregate of the RBA VAP Occupational Health and Safety sub-criteria.

Full Description

Occupational Health and Safety

This aggregate criterion summarises the RBA VAP Occupational Health and Safety sub-criteria. Its conformance is derived from the rollup of the sub-criteria listed below.

Sub-Criteria

  • Occupational Health and Safety — Requirements for hazard identification, risk assessment, and safety controls
  • Emergency Preparedness — Requirements for emergency planning, evacuation drills, and fire safety equipment
  • Occupational Injury and Illness — Requirements for injury/illness prevention, reporting, treatment, and investigation
  • Industrial Hygiene — Requirements for controlling worker exposure to chemical, biological, and physical hazards
  • Physically Demanding Work — Requirements for ergonomic assessments and controls for physically demanding tasks
  • Machine Safeguarding — Requirements for machine guards, interlocks, emergency stops, and equipment safety
  • Food, Sanitation and Housing — Requirements for sanitary facilities, drinking water, food safety, and worker housing
  • Health and Safety Management System — Requirements for health and safety management system, compliance, training, and continuous improvement
Sub-Criteria
Profiles using this criterion

RBA Assessment Program

Change Log

4.1.0 (2025-04-01)

Changed

  • minor: B1-Occupational-Health-and-Safety 3.0.0->3.1.0

4.0.0 (2024-01-01)

Changed

  • major: B6-Machine-Safeguarding 1.1.0->2.0.0; B7-Food-Sanitation-and-Housing 3.0.0->4.0.0; B4-Industrial-Hygiene 3.0.0->4.0.0; B5-Physically-Demanding-Work 1.1.0->2.0.0; B1-Occupational-Health-and-Safety 2.1.0->3.0.0; B2-Emergency-Preparedness 1.2.0->1.3.0

3.0.0 (2023-09-01)

Changed

  • major: B7-Food-Sanitation-and-Housing 2.0.0->3.0.0; B3-Occupational-Injury-and-Illness 2.0.0->3.0.0; B4-Industrial-Hygiene 2.0.0->3.0.0; BM-Health-and-Safety-Management-System 2.0.0->3.0.0; B2-Emergency-Preparedness 1.1.0->1.2.0; B1-Occupational-Health-and-Safety 2.0.0->2.1.0

2.0.0 (2022-06-01)

Changed

  • major: B7-Food-Sanitation-and-Housing 1.0.0->2.0.0; B3-Occupational-Injury-and-Illness 1.0.0->2.0.0; B4-Industrial-Hygiene 1.0.0->2.0.0; B1-Occupational-Health-and-Safety 1.0.0->2.0.0; BM-Health-and-Safety-Management-System 1.0.0->2.0.0; B6-Machine-Safeguarding 1.0.0->1.1.0; -B8-Health-and-Safety-Communication; B5-Physically-Demanding-Work 1.0.0->1.1.0; B2-Emergency-Preparedness 1.0.0->1.1.0

1.0.0 (2021-01-01)

Changed

  • Initial historical baseline — aggregate of the category sub-criteria.