ISO 9001 is a QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM on which to build your company.
It has a commonsense, documented system focusing on consistency,
reliability and improving the way your business operates. ISO 9001
focuses on organizational processes, the customer and improvement, and
provides guidance on what is required to achieve an internationally
recognized standard.
ISO 9001 does
not tell an organization
how to operate. It gives a company a set of guidelines in which to
build an efficient business system with, which if incorporated
correctly will result in a quality product as its end product.
ISO 9001 can be
applied to any
organization, large or small, whether you are a manufacturer or service
provider. The standard has been developed using a core set of eight
quality management principles, which act as a common foundation for
standards relating to quality management. These are:
· Customer focus
· Leadership
· The involvement of people
· A process approach
· A system approach to management
· Continual improvement
· A factual approach to decision making
· Mutually beneficial supplier relationships
Just Released: ISO 9001:2008
The lastest ISO 9001 was released on November 15, 2008. This update
introduces no new requirements, it only introduces clarifications to
the existing requirements of ISO 9001:2000 based on eight years of
experience of implementing the standard world wide. It also introduces
changes intended to improve consistency with ISO14001:2004.
The agreed implementation plan for accredited certification is
therefore the following: 1) Accredited
certification to the ISO
9001:2008 shall not be granted until after November 15, 2008 (date of
publication).
2) Certification of conformity to ISO 9001:2008 and/or national
equivalents shall only be issued after November 15, 2008 AND
after a routine surveillance or
recertification audit against ISO 9001:2008. Validity of
certifications to ISO
9001:2000: One year
after publication of ISO
9001:2008 (15 Nov, 2009) all accredited certifications issued (new or
recertifications) shall be to ISO 9001:2008.
Twenty four months after publication by ISO of ISO 9001:2008 (15 Nov,
2010), any existing certification issued to ISO 9001:2000 shall not be
valid.
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