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Can you trust them? ISO standard for sizing up personal financial planners
ISO has published the first International Standard that will help people to decide whether or not they can be confident about the ethics and competence of professionals proposing advice on planning their personal finances. ISO 22222:2005, Personal financial planning, is aimed at increasing client confidence by providing an internationally agreed benchmark for a high global standard of service.
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The future of ISO 9000 and ISO 14000
The chairs of the ISO technical committees responsible for environmental management (ISO 14000) and quality management (ISO 9000) press the “pause” button to review current cooperation on ISO’s management system standards, and “fast forward” to look at the path ahead for these and for management system standards in general. They say that ISO’s challenge is to ensure that individual management system standards are compatible with increasingly integrated business models and pressures are growing for revamped standards and standards’ development processes.
State-of-the-art information security management systems with ISO/IEC 27001:2005
ISO/PAS 28000 applies management system approach to security of global supply chains
New, improved ISO 9000 guidelines for health sector
How to implement a food safety management system
ISO/TC 176 looks to new horizons for ISO 9000
ISO 9000:2005: the ‘A to Z’ of quality management systems updated
'The best of the rest' from TC 207 plenary
The giant Italian energy company ENEL carried out 320 audits of 136 suppliers, of which 120 were certified to ISO 9001, to assess their conformity with the standard. Its findings were that 11 % were “unacceptable”, putting product conformity at risk. ENEL highlights the importance of feedback from customer to offending supplier for improvement actions. A new survey is planned in the second half of 2006 by ENEL to monitor improvements.
Agendia B.V., the world’s first diagnostic microarray lab to obtain ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for its breast cancer testing activities, implemented the standard from start up in 2003. Now its increased credibility as a profiling service has led to easier discussions with governmental bodies and potential partners.
Not only the smokestack industries pollute, universities do too. So Chiba University in Japan set about reducing the environmental impact of chemical waste from laboratory experiments, plus waste and energy use from everyday campus life, by implementing an ISO 14001-certified EMS.
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