Defence standard 00-56 issue 5: concepts, principles and pragmatics

Defence Standard (DS) 00-56 is the UK MoD´s primary contracting safety management standard, used to govern the safety aspects of work undertaken by industry under contract to the MoD. The MoD is going through a period of unprecedented change and this is impacting the way in which MoD and its suppliers manage safety, as well as many other aspects of the defence enterprise. The paper explains some of the drivers for updating DS 00-56 from issue 4 to issue 5 and explains the rationale for the key changes in the standard.