Differences between Management System Standards

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ISO 9001 is about operations and productivity. Quality itself is about meeting requirements and therefore ISO 9001 includes:
  • Determining requirements (e.g. customer and legal requirements)
  • Planning to ensure those requirements are met
  • Fulfilling those requirements including purchasing where appropriate
  • Monitoring and measurement to ensure those requirements are being met
  • Final inspections to ensure requirements have been met prior to hand over to the customer.
ISO 14001 Environmental Management

While these are typical business activities of most organisations, ISO 9001 allows that any of the above steps may be excluded where relevant.

ISO 14001 is about minimising environmental impact from organisations operations. Similarly, ISO 45001 is about eliminating or reducing the risk of injury and illness from an organizations operation. Additional factors to consider therefore are:

ISO 14001 Environmental Management System
  • Legal compliance and compliance monitoring
  • Hazard/environmental aspect identification and risk management
  • Consultation (OHS only)
  • Incidents and emergencies.