6.1.3 Determination of legal and other requirements
Determine and have access to up-to-date legal and other requirements applicable to your hazards and OH&S system.
What this clause is about
Know which laws and other requirements apply to you, how they apply, and keep that knowledge up to date.
Questions auditors ask
- How do you track new laws and authority circulars?
- Which requirements apply to this site?
- Who is responsible for updates?
Evidence to keep on a UAE site
- Legal register (federal, emirate, free zone)
- Authority permits, NOCs and approvals
- Record of the last legal update review
Written in plain language by Site Safety UAE — not the official wording of the standard.
How Site Safety UAE covers this clause
- UAE legal register
Federal, ADOSH-SF, DM, Trakhees and DCD requirements kept current.
Documents & Compliance - GCC regulation library
Cross-border requirements for multi-country operations.
Documents & Compliance
Audit evidence to have ready
- Legal register
- Authority requirement mapping
- Compliance evaluations
- UAE legal register extract showing applicable laws and authority requirements
- Compliance evaluation record (who checked, when, outcome)
- Authority correspondence, permits or inspection notices
Where to find it: Dashboard → Overview tab → Compliance reminders, plus the Compliance Hub authority directory for the source references.
Open HSE Operations dashboardGuidance only — clause text is paraphrased and certification decisions rest with your certification body.
Next step
Turn this into evidence you can hand over
Map every ISO 45001 clause to the record that proves it, and close the gaps before your certification body arrives.
- Built around UAE authoritiesADOSH-SF, Trakhees, DM, DCD, MOIAT and ISO 45001 structures.
- Usable the same dayTemplates and registers are pre-filled with your company details.
- Evidence, not just formsEvery record carries dates, signatures and an export you can hand over.