1. Leadership and Worker Participation: Emphasizes the importance of top management leadership and worker involvement in the OH&S management system.

2. Risk and Opportunity Management: Focuses on identifying and addressing both risks and opportunities to improve OH&S performance.

3. Legal and Other Requirements: Ensures that organizations comply with applicable legal and other requirements related to OH&S.

4. OH&S Objectives and Planning : Guides organizations in setting OH&S objectives and planning how to achieve them.

5. Support : Involves ensuring adequate resources, competence, awareness, communication, and documented information for the OH&S management system.

6. Operation : Addresses operational planning and control, emergency preparedness and response.

7. Performance Evaluation : Focuses on monitoring, measurement, analysis, evaluation, internal audits, and management reviews.

8. Improvement : Covers nonconformity and corrective actions, continual improvement, and incident investigation.