This is our fourth in a series on: Branching out – Other Standards based upon ISO 9001.  This is #2 of 2 on ISO 14001 – Environmental Systems. Steps to ISO 14001 Certification  What do we need to do to become ISO 14001 Registered? You will need to get some general training on ISO 14001 so [...]

This is our third in a series on: Branching out – Other Standards based upon ISO 9001.  This is #1 of 2 on ISO 14001 – Environmental Management Standard. What is ISO 14001:2004? The International Organization of Standardization, (ISO) is a worldwide organization that develops many different kinds of Standards – not just quality standards. ISO 14000 is [...]

Most of the information in this blog has (obviously) been about ISO 9001, but there are several other standards which take ISO 9001 and configure it for a specific industry.  all follow the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) platform with a very similar structure. Having “industry specific” standards raises the following questoins: Don’t special QMS’s defeat the purpose of a uniformly accepted [...]