New standard on management standard
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ISO working group finalises harmonised terms and structure for International system management standards.
Vienna (AS prm, 2010-10-25)
It all started with ISO 9001, the quality management standard that is applied by more than one million enterprises and organisations of all types and sizes world-wide today.
- The working group members at their meeting in Vienna
It was followed by further management standards such as the ISO 14000 series on environmental management.
Numerous companies have implemented those as well as other management systems, for example for information security, security in the supply chain and safety of the food chain.
The users are to be supported in the joint, integrated application of these standards in the future. For that purpose, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has set up a dedicated working group.
Its task is to review the various terms and definitions as well as the structure, outline and standard text elements of all existing management standards and to harmonise them in order to facilitate implementation by the standards’ users.
In its meeting held at the Austrian Standards Institute in Vienna in mid-October, the working group made up of around 30 experts from all over the world was able to complete its work successfully.
“We achieved agreement on all issues, adopted harmonised text blocks and established a common terminology. Thereby — and I am not exaggerating — we made history in Vienna,” explains Dick Hortensius, the working group’s secretary.
These recommendations are to be taken into account in the future revision of existing management standards and in the development of new ones. Based on this new structure, ISO 9001 (on quality management systems) and ISO 14001 (on environmental management systems) will have to be adapted.
Survey on the further development of the ISO 9000 series
ISO/TC 176, ISO’s technical committee responsible for quality management standards, recently established an online forum for users. Stakeholders from all over the world have the opportunity to comment on a potential revision and further development of this standards family.
The forum will be accessible up to January 2011. The replies to the questions asked may be submitted not only in English, but also in several other languages.
The direct hyperlink to the ISO 9000 User Survey:
