ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Lead Auditor Practice Questions — 10 Free (2026)

What does the standard require of information a certification body gives to clients or the market, advertising included?

• A. That it be approved by the accreditation body
• B. That it be issued in the language of each territory
• C. That it be reviewed annually
• D. That it be accurate and not misleading ✓
• E. That it carry a statement of the number of certificates the body has issued and the number it has withdrawn over the preceding three-year period

The requirement covers what is said to the marketplace as much as what is said to a client. ISO 45001 Lead Auditor - ISO standards and course material, ISO.LA.CORE

Clause 8.2 lists duties from a) through g). How many is that?

• A. 6
• B. 7 ✓
• C. 8
• D. 9
• E. 10

Planned response, training, testing, revision, worker information, external communication, involvement. ISO 45001 Lead Auditor - ISO standards and course material, ISO45001.OHS

What power does the standard give the team leader where it cannot be assured that observers will keep clear of the audit?

• A. To require the auditee to replace them
• B. To terminate the audit
• C. To report them to the audit client
• D. To record the matter as a nonconformity in the ordinary course of things
• E. To refuse them presence during certain auditing activities ✓

Whatever an observer needs by way of entry, safety, care for the environment, security and confidence is arranged between the party commissioning the audit and the auditee. ISO 45001 Lead Auditor - ISO standards and course material, ISO.LA.CORE

How does the standard treat information that has not been identified as going into the public domain?

• A. It may be disclosed to other clients in the same sector
• B. It may be disclosed once the certificate expires
• C. It is confidential for three years and then may be released
• D. It may be disclosed to anybody who asks, provided the certification body first satisfies itself that the request has been made for a legitimate purpose
• E. It is confidential, save for what the client itself has made publicly accessible ✓

The client has to be told in advance what the body intends to put in the public domain, and information reaching the body from complainants or regulators is treated as confidential too. ISO 45001 Lead Auditor - ISO standards and course material, ISO.LA.CORE

Where does ISO/IEC 17021-1 set out the knowledge and skills a certification body must define for particular functions?

• A. In Clause 9
• B. In Annex D
• C. In the bibliography
• D. In Annex A ✓
• E. In a separate document issued by the accreditation body and updated by it from time to time as circumstances in the certification market may require

Where a scheme or a further part of the 17021 series sets extra criteria, those apply as well. ISO 45001 Lead Auditor - ISO standards and course material, ISO.LA.CORE

What does the standard say about disclosing what was obtained during an audit?

• A. Neither the team nor whoever runs the programme should give it, or the report ✓
• B. It may be disclosed once the report is issued
• C. It may be disclosed to any interested party
• D. It may be disclosed at the team leader's discretion whatever the circumstances may be
• E. It may never be disclosed in any circumstances

The answer runs on: to any other party without the audit client's express approval and, where fitting, the auditee's. Where disclosure is required, by law for instance, the audit client and the auditee should be told as soon as possible. ISO 45001 Lead Auditor - ISO standards and course material, ISO.LA.CORE

What does the standard say knowledge and skill in audit principles, processes and methods enables an auditor to do?

• A. Interpret any clause of any standard
• B. Decide whether certification should follow in the ordinary course of things
• C. Judge the auditee's business strategy
• D. Train the auditee's internal auditors
• E. Make sure audits are carried out consistently and systematically ✓

Under that heading fall planning and organising the work, keeping to the agreed schedule, and giving weight to what matters. ISO 45001 Lead Auditor - ISO standards and course material, ISO.LA.CORE

What does the standard require of those making certification decisions?

• A. That they hold a lead auditor qualification
• B. That they be members of top management
• C. That they be drawn from an external committee
• D. That they be different people from those who carried out the audit, and competent for the task ✓
• E. That they have visited the client's premises at some point during the certification cycle to which the decision they are being asked to make relates

Each decision is recorded, along with anything further sought from the audit team or from elsewhere. ISO 45001 Lead Auditor - ISO standards and course material, ISO.LA.CORE

Beyond seeing that the programme's aims are set, what else falls to the audit client?

• A. That the audit team is independent of the auditee
• B. That the programme is actually carried through to effect ✓
• C. That the audit report is distributed to interested parties
• D. That nonconformities are closed within the cycle
• E. That the certification body is informed of the schedule

Those aims steer how audits are planned and run, and have to sit with where the client is heading and the setting it works in. ISO 45001 Lead Auditor - ISO standards and course material, ISO.LA.CORE

What does the fourth edition of the standard place among the abilities an auditor needs in relation to technology?

• A. The ability to build audit software
• B. Grasping where tools of information and communications technology serve ✓
• C. The ability to audit without any technology
• D. The ability to certify the auditee's own systems in the ordinary course of things
• E. Knowledge of the auditee's network architecture

The answer runs on: and what newer technology such as evaluation built on artificial intelligence is fit for, and what using either to run an audit brings with it. The same heading also has the auditor able to audit a process from start to finish, taking in how it interrelates with other processes and functions. ISO 45001 Lead Auditor - ISO standards and course material, ISO.LA.CORE