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ISO 9001 the Quality Management Systems

ISO 9001 is a certification that certain formal processes are being used within a company for their management of quality control. This includes monitoring processes, maintaining complete and accurate records, checking for defective output, taking action to correct defects, and continual internal reviews for effectiveness.

The benefits to customers:

The benefits to organization:

Provides senior management with an efficient management process

Sets out areas of responsibility across the organization

Mandatory if you want to tender for some public sector work

Communicates a positive message to staff and customers

Identifies and encourages more efficient and time saving processes

Highlights deficiencies

Reduces your costs

Provides continuous assessment and improvement

ISO 14001 the Environment Management Systems

ISO 14001 was first published in 1996 and specifies the actual requirements for an environmental management system. It applies to those environmental aspects which the organization has control and over which it can be expected to have an influence. 

ISO 14001 is often seen as the corner stone standard of the ISO 14000 series. However, it is not only the most well known, but is the only ISO 14000 standard against which it is currently possible to be certified by an external certification authority. Having stated this, it does not itself state specific environmental performance criteria.

This standard is applicable to any organization that wishes to:

OHSAS 18001 the Health and Safety Management Systems

The OHSAS 18001 standard (may also be mistakenly referred to as ISO 18001) is internationally accepted as a method of assessing and auditing occupational health and safety management systems. Developed by leading trade and international standards bodies, it provides a framework for organizations to instigate proper and effective management of health & safety in the workplace.

By having a clearly defined management system in place to identify and control health and safety risks, organisations are able to minimise risks to their workforce and visitors or external contractors on their premises. The standard will enable organisations to put in place processes for continually reviewing and improving occupational health and safety.

Key areas that will be assessed by OHSAS certification