IMS Alerts e-newsletter, Vol.3, No.2, March 2007
ISO MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS magazine
ISO standards can contribute to alleviating problems highlighted by World Water Day
World Standards Cooperation workshop on "networked car" at Geneva Motor Show
ISO/TS 22003 aims to build confidence in certification of food safety management systems
A newly published document in the ISO 22000 series gives the requirements for the bodies that carry out auditing and certification of food safety management systems (FSMS). ISO technical specification ISO/TS 22003:2007 provides information, criteria and guidance for carrying out ISO 22000:2005 auditing and certification. It will therefore be useful for certification bodies, the accreditation bodies that approve them, suppliers wishing to have their FSMS certified, their customers and food sector regulators. |
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Future ISO 26000 standard on social responsibility reaches positive turning point
ISO/IEC RFID standards collection on CD-ROM
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Special Report: Complexity, change and turbulence
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This is the seventh and last in a series about the problems of change management in organizations. Previous articles addressed the issue of complexity on several occasions, explaining that it renders change management more difficult. This time, the authors offer some ideas on management practices than are liable to increase complexity artificially along with adverse effects on change management. The authors advise: "If there is one competency which managers should develop in this context, it is truly that of being able to make choices. It is indeed better to concentrate on a limited number of targets, but the importance of which is critical, and to rely on the spin-off effect of the measures adopted to influence the other dimensions of the organization. "This appears trivial at first sight; yet in the present turbulent times, managers are so stimulated and so sought-after that quite a number of them are drawn against their will into the whirlwind of turbulence."
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Management system standards can play greater role in better regulation
Lord Lindsay, Chairman of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS Ltd.) and a member of the United Kingdom’s Better Regulation Commission (BRC), encourages greater consideration of the role standards and accredited conformity assessment can play in support of lighter touch regulation or even as a self-regulatory alternative to legislation. He cites ISO 14001 as one of the best current examples.
- Much achieved at busy Busan meeting of ISO/TC 176
- Relevance of ISO network to global challenges highlighted at Davos
World's principal aviation safety regulator achieves ISO 9001:2000
ISO 9001:2000 certification of the USA Federal Aviation Administration’s Aviation Safety organization is a striking example of the value of the international quality management standard to a major and complex public sector organization with a critical mission to perform.
- Airline industry models new operational safety standard on ISO 9001:2000
- Japanese shopping mall specialist implements ISO 14001
- Environmental penalty discount for ISO 14001:2004 users
- New survey reveals positive impact of ISO 9001:2000 in Colombia
Scandinavian standard for cleaning services makes clean sweep
Sweden , Norway and Denmark have jointly developed a standard on the quality of cleaning services – a EUR 1.5 billion (USD 1.95 billion) per year industry in Sweden alone. It has proved to be such a success that it is now being translated into English for an even wider diffusion.
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