Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
JOURNAL OF POLYTECHNIC-POLITEKNIK DERGISI, cilt.1, 2025 (ESCI)
ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety management systems operate
their processes by taking employee participation of its center. A
systematic and strategic improvement can be achieved for ISO 45001:2018
through quality circles approach by spreading managerial activities
throughout the enterprise and integrating into the implementation steps.
In this study, to improve and facilitate ISO 45001:2018 implementation
steps, a new process proposal was conducted to ensure this integration
and critical success factors of it were determined. The relative
importance weights of these determined critical points were calculated
with the fuzzy extension of the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Planning and
regular checking of results were determined as the most important main
and sub-key factors, respectively. The main contribution to the
literature of this paper is to transform ISO 45001:2018's unique
application phases into a holistic problem-solving approach using
quality circles. As a result, both worker participation and the safety
culture that ISO 45001:2018 aims to promote has been able to permeate
across the organization. The secondary contribution of this study is
determining which process steps to prioritize to achieve success quickly
and securely and doing so with an analytical approach.