IMS Alerts e-newsletter, Vol.4, No.2, April 2008
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ISO Insider
Integrated use of management system standards
Organizations may find it to their advantage or required to implement several management system standards. To help them achieve the greatest benefits in doing so, an ISO task force including managers from diverse companies in different countries has been developing an approach presented in a book for publication by ISO in the first quarter of 2008. This article provides a preview of the approach.
- All ISO standards for food safety management systems included on one CD
- Towards a new framework for eco-efficiency
- ISO publishes international benchmark for incident preparedness and operational continuity management
- ISO standards highlighted at Bali conference as essential to voluntary and regulatory efforts to fight climate change
- Consumers, manufacturers, regulators and many others may benefit from free new brochure on ISO/IEC guides
- New ISO standards to improve quality of water services to consumers
International
China powerhouse embraces ISO 14001 certification
China pioneered ISO 14001 implementation as a pilot project in 1996, before the actual publication of the international standard. From this head start, the country was ranked 2 nd in the world ISO 14001 league table by end 2006, and has well over 30 000 certified organizations to date.
- ISO 9001:2000 – an instrument for corporate governance
- Asian Development Bank HQ reduces environmental footprint through ISO 14001
Standards for Services
KATS develops standards for 30 Korean service sectors
With the service sector accounting for approximately 57 % of Korea’s gross domestic product, the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) has put a major effort into developing consumer-oriented service standards.
Managing crises with new ISO/IEC standard for IT disaster recovery
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ISO Management Systems Magazine Database on CD
Nearly 500 articles constituting a mine of information on worldwide developments relating to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and other global business standards developed by ISO are available in English, French and Spanish on a new CD. The second edition of the ISO Management Systems Magazine Database includes the complete collection in the three languages of the 494 articles that appeared in the magazine in the 32 issues from the first September-October 2001 issue up to and including the November-December 2006 issue. |
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The ISO Standards collection - ISO 9000 Quality management
The 14 ISO International Standards currently comprising the ISO 9000 family of generic quality management standards are now available in new paper and CD editions of The ISO Standards collection. Two standards now at the final draft stage, plus a technical corrigendum, are also included. The ISO 9000 family is best known for ISO 9001:2000, the standard that establishes the requirements for a quality management system and which can be used for certification by organizations that wish to have their conformity to the standard verified by an independent auditor. At the end of 2006, at least 897 866 ISO 9001:2000 certificates had been issued in 170 countries and economies. |
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