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ISO 9001 & 9000 defines quality as ‘the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfils requirements’. The term quality assurance denotes actions that lead to building confidence in all concerned stakeholders that their requirements would be fulfilled. Quality control focuses on fulfilling the quality requirements. Certifying your organization to ISO 9001, or other standards relating to quality, offers a proof of your commitment of business performance.
ISO 9001 & 9000 is based on eight quality management principles. When fully adopted, these principles can help improve your organizational performance.
- Customer focus - fulfilling the market needs customer centric
- Leadership - providing unity of purpose and direction
- Involvement of People - People involving themselves in achieving organizational objectives
- Process approach to management - to achieve organizational objectives, resources and activities need to be managed as processes,
with an understanding of how the outputs of one process affects the inputs to another. - System Approach - systemized approach towards work activities
- Continual Improvement - adopting improvement as a part of everyday work culture
- Fact based decision making - decisions are made based on the logical and intuitive analysis of data and factual information
- Mutually beneficial supplier relationships - to create value
- Involves Top management in the improvement of the Quality management System.
- Facilitates the organization to become a customer-focused organization.
- Ensures sustained customer satisfaction by producing, delivering services and providing support functions that meet customer's needs and expectations
- Increases the effectiveness and efficiency of the organization through continual improvement in systems and products' /services quality
ISO 14001
The system encourages the companies to use the environmental friendly, advanced production technologies.
ISO 14001 specifies the most important requirements to identify, control and monitor the environmental aspects of any organization, and also how to manage and improve the whole system.
Some business benefits are:
- Customer, investor, public, community assurance by demonstrating commitment.
- Improving cost control through conserving input materials and energy.
- Reducing incidents that result in liability therefore reduces insurance costs.
- Assisting the attainment of permits and authorizations for local trade.
OHSAS 18001
The system encourages the companies to use the environmental friendly, advanced production technologies.
he elements of OHSAS 18001 include:
1. Policy and commitment.
2. Hazard identification, risk assessment & risk controls.
3. Legal requirements.
4. Better relationships with insurers, investors, and financial markets
5. Product improvement
6. Marketing advantages
7. Better control of liabilities
8. educed regulatory burden
9.Protection of company image and name
10.emonstration of responsible management
ISO 22000 / HACCP
This International Standard ISO 22000 specifies requirements for a food safety management system where an organization in the food chain needs to demonstrate its ability to control food safety hazards in order to ensure that food is safe at the time of human consumption.
This International Standard ISO 22000 specifies requirements to enable an organization
- To plan, implement, operate, maintain and update a food safety management system aimed at providing products that, according to their intended use, are safe for the consumer
- To demonstrate compliance with applicable statutory and regulatory food safety requirements
- To evaluate and assess customer requirements and demonstrate conformity with those mutually agreed customer requirements that relate to food safety, in order to enhance customer satisfaction
- To effectively communicate food safety issues to their suppliers, customers and relevant interested parties in the food chain
- To ensure that the organization conforms to its stated food safety policy
- To demonstrate such conformity to relevant interested parties and
- To seek certification or registration of its food safety management system by an external organization, or make a self-assessment or self-declaration of conformity to this International Standard.
ISO/TS 16949
Benefits of ISO/TS 16949
1. Fosters improved product & process quality.
2. Incorporates the best lessons learnt from the global automotive realm.
3. Provides additional confidence for global sourcing.
4. Ensures a global quality system approach in the supply chain for supplier/subcontractor service consistency.
5. Reduces variation, waste & improves the overall efficiency in production levels.
6. Eliminates the need for multiple third party registrations.
7. Provides a common platform to address worldwide quality system requirements.
8. Formatted to allow easy conversion to ISO9001/2008.
9. Advantageous to the up gradation of existing quality systems.
ISO 27001
ISMS outlines the best practices that one should follow to protect informational assets.
ISMS is the only method that specifically addresses the protection of information. It provides detailed guidelines on how a secure management framework should be implemented. Recent high profile information security breaches and the value of information are highlighting the ever increasing need for organizations to protect their information. An Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) is a systematic approach to managing sensitive company information so that it remains secure. It encompasses people, processes and IT systems.
Benefits: Comforts customers, employees, trading partners and stakeholders – in the knowledge that your management information and systems are secure.
The ISO 27001 standard was published in October 2005, essentially replacing the old BS7799-2 standard. It is the specification for ISMS, an Information Security Management System. BS7799 itself was a long standing standard, first published in the nineties as a code of practice. As this matured, a second part emerged to cover management systems. It is this against which certification is granted. Today in excess of a thousand certificates are in place, across the world.
ISO 27001 enhanced the content of BS7799-2 and harmonized it with other standards. A scheme has been introduced by various certification bodies for conversion from BS7799 certification to ISO27001 certification.
The objective of the standard itself is to "provide a model for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining, and improving an Information Security Management System". Regarding its adoption, this should be a strategic decision. Further, "The design and implementation of an organization's ISMS is influenced by their needs and objectives, security requirements, the process employed and the size and structure of the organization".
ISO/IEC 27001 specifies requirements for the establishment, implementation, monitoring and review, maintenance and improvement of a management system - an overall management and control framework - for managing an organization’s information security risks. It does not mandate specific information security controls but stops at the level of the management system.
The standard covers all types of organizations (e.g. commercial enterprises, government agencies and non-profit organizations) and all sizes from micro-businesses to huge multinationals. This is clearly a very wide brief.
Bringing information security under management control is a prerequisite for sustainable, directed and continuous improvement. An ISO/IEC 27001 ISMS therefore incorporates several Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycles: for example, information security controls are not merely specified and implemented as a one-off activity but are continually reviewed and adjusted to take account of changes in the security threats, vulnerabilities and impacts of information security failures, using review and improvement activities specified within the management system.
Benefits of 27001
- Use within organizations to formulate security requirements and objectives;
- Use within organizations as a way to ensure that security risks are cost-effectively managed;
- Use within organizations to ensure compliance with laws and regulations;
- Use within an organization as a process framework for the implementation and management of controls to ensure that the specific security objectives of an organization are met;
- The definition of new information security management processes;
- Identification and clarification of existing information security management processes;
- Use by the management of organizations to determine the status of information security management activities;
- Use by the internal and external auditors of organizations to demonstrate the information security policies, directives and standards adopted by an organization and determine the degree of compliance with those policies, directives and standards;
- Use by organizations to provide relevant information about information security policies, directives, standards and procedures to trading partners and other organizations that they interact with for operational or commercial reasons;
- Implementation of a business enabling information security; and
- Use by organizations to provide relevant information about information security to customers.
ISO 13485:2003 Quality Management System
ISO 13485 is the international standard recognized for medical device regulations around the world.
It is intended to promote harmonisation in the medical device industry and set a basis for quality system regulations worldwide. We provide services that help manufacturers understand what they need to do to place compliant devices on markets throughout the world.
All requirements of ISO 13485 are specific to organisations providing medical devices, regardless of the type or size of the organisation.
- Manufacturers of high-risk medical products must be associated with a notified body to vouch for the product's quality. This is achieved through product testing and auditing of the manufacturer's quality management system.
- Whatever devices you produce, as a medical device manufacturer you have a responsibility to consistently deliver devices that are safe and effective.
WRAP (Worldwide Responsible accredited Production)
WRAP is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to the certification of lawful, humane and ethical manufacturing throughout the world.
WRAP certification is based on following factors :-
- Prohibition of Forced Labor
- Prohibition of Child Labor
- Prohibition of Harassment or Abuse
- Compensation and Benefits
- Hours of Work
- Prohibition of Discrimination
- Health and Safety
- Freedom of Association & Collective
- Environment
- Customs
- Security
SA 8000
SA8000 measures the performance of organisations in eight key areas: child labour, forced labour, health and safety, freedom of association and collective bargaining, discrimination, disciplinary practices, working hours and remuneration. .
The systems put in place to achieve this certification are an ongoing process and involves the participation of employees to ensure systemic change. The benefits of adopting SA8000 includes improved staff morale, reliable business partnerships, enhanced competitiveness, less staff turnover and better worker-manager communication.
The SA 8000 certification facilitates the integration of labour standards into factory management systems. This certification enables organisations to rigorously ensure the code compliance demanded by international labour laws and the market.
BSCI (Business Social Compliance Initiative)
The benefits of the BSCI as a broad and comprehensive monitoring system for social standards in the supply chain are numerous :
Synergy effects, reduction of multiple auditing thereby reducing costs are one characteristic. Factories/companies which are being audited can improve their competitiveness through improved social standards as better working conditions and an improved management system leads to better product quality, higher productivity, fewer work accidents, less sick leave producing more highly motivated workers and lower staff turnover. The result of this is an improvement ethically, but also economically for both involved employers as well as employees. The economic advantages in this respect - in parallel taking into account the objectives to reduce excessive overtime and raise salaries where necessary, have been shown in research studies in this field. Therefore, benefits of the individual company also have a positive effect on the broad public. This is not a certification scheme.