ISO 9001 – Quality Management

ISO 9001 is the most sought-after and internationally acclaimed management system standard.

Internally, the ISO 9001 Quality Management Standard helps to improve operational and management efficiency and effectiveness.

ISO 9001 is not a mere Quality Assurance Standard or a degree of excellence; it is about ensuring customer requirements are met with consistency.

Attaining ISO 9001 certification makes your business more valuable. Certification assures others that your organization is committed to continually improving systems to better ensure customer satisfaction. Other organizations are more likely to engage with ISO 9001 certified companies. Moreover, ISO 9001 Quality Assurance Certification demonstrates credibility.

More than 1 million organizations have implemented ISO 9001 in more than 75 countries.

While there were earlier standards for quality management systems, the International Organization for Standardization or ISO released its 9001 standard in 1987 for the first time. The standard has been revised several times in 1994, 2000, 2008, and the current version in 2015.

An internationally and diverse selection committee developed the framework of the ISO 9001 Quality Management System Standard to help all types of organizations (including commercial businesses, governments, non-profit organizations, etc.) adopt “good management practices.”

ISO 9001 is packed full of good management practices that every good organization should have. These practices include-

A policy statement (or mission statement)

Objectives and plans

Competent human resources

A written management system (or policies and procedures) to confirm that the management system is approved, available, and up-to-date

A detailed understanding of customer requirements

A way of determining customer satisfaction

Effective supplier management

Data collection and analysis

Management reviews

Risk based thinking

Strategic management

Management of documents and records

Internal auditing

Control of non-conformances and consideration of the corrective actions etc.

This list is not comprehensive, but perhaps enough to help you see that you can benefit from implementing this ISO standard.

Organizations that adopt the ISO quality management system standard can enjoy many benefits depending on your situation, such as improved internal controls, leadership emphasis, risk aversion, lower costs, higher prices, greater opportunities in the marketplace, minimize waste, more satisfied customers, less litigation, and so on.

Like other ISO standards such as ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems, AS 9100 Aerospace, etc., ISO 9001 requirements are designed to integrate well with other management system standards.

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Resources to obtain and maintain certification-ISO compliance does not need to cost a lot to maintain! Compliancehelp minimizes the need for internal resources by a lean and compliant ISO quality consulting approach.

Ongoing support- Compliancehelp can help you manage ongoing compliance on your own, or you can team up with Compliancehelp. Our personalized ISO certification services include monitoring and internal audit as well. Our experts will monitor your Quality Management System to ensure consistency, improvement and compliance. We can also help make compliance with future updates to the ISO standard a cinch.

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