Armin Honarasa

My Take After Visiting the Melbourne WHS Show A few weeks ago, I attended the Workplace Health & Safety Show in Melbourne. As someone who spends a significant amount of time helping businesses implement and maintain ISO 45001, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 management systems, I was particularly interested in the growing number of software providers exhibiting at the event. What stood out to me was how much the health and safety software market has matured. Gone are the days when businesses relied...

The fourth edition of ISO 14001 was published in April 2026, replacing the 2015 version that most certified organisations have been working with for the past decade. The ISO committee describes it as a "moderate revision," and in terms of clause count and structure, that's fair. But don't let that description breed complacency, the intent behind the changes is significant, and for many organisations the real work will be at the strategic level, not just in updating a few documents. Here's a...

Introduction This article draws on the whitepaper "Developing Adaptive Organisations Through Leadership & Culture" by Adaptive Cultures (revised 2024) . The paper presents a comprehensive framework for understanding how organisational cultures evolve through distinct stages, from impulse-oriented and compliant-dependent cultures through to achievement, collaborative growth, and co-creation cultures. The Core Problem Most ISO implementations fail to deliver their full potential because...