Integration of ISO Standards Part 2
As part of an earlier blog on integration, there were some items that needed expansion. In this blog, the following point will be addressed:
ISO management standard – decode more!
The latest upgrade of ISO 9001:2008 was partly to do with improving terminologies to better facilitate integration between the standard and ISO 14001
Anyone familiar with the latest version of the quality management system (2008) will know that the standard has not really changed in intent from the previous one (released in 2000).
A main reason for the update was simply to do with terminology, so that it better matched terminology in Environmental Management Systems and other standards. From the Foreword in the latest quality management standard, we read:
“This fourth edition cancels and replaces the third edition (from 2000), which has been amended to clarify points in the text and to enhance compatibility with ISO 14001:2004.”
The intention is clear, these management system standards are compatible with each other and therefore meant for integration.
Further evidence of the intention to integrate is the table in Appendix A of the latest quality management standard and the table in Appendix B of the environmental management standard from 2004. Both of these standards show the relationships between the two standards.
