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The advent of organizational management system ideas, approaches, frameworks, standards, etc. and their application to improving worker health is significant. OHSMS approaches provide industrial hygienists and OH&S professionals with a robust set of tools to integrate OH&S with business and operational processes. As well, they assist in strengthening professional competencies, and “new ways of thinking,” as suggested by Buckminster Fuller's quote,

“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking” (1).

Thinking connotes to “seeing.” Organizational MSs expand purview and what is seen. OHSMSs support seeing beyond an OH&S purview, but more broadly to the whole organization, and past its fence line (community, supply chains, environment, etc.).

The evolution of management system approaches includes not only stronger risk management focus, but also a focus on performance improvement opportunities. This shift in thinking, while seemingly small, has potentially large implications for industrial hygienists and OH&S professionals. Opportunity‐thinking and business process integration‐thinking provides a portal to make a larger contribution, for instance, in Enterprise Risk Management efforts and in designing “the workplace of the future.”