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ISO Management Systems
September - October 2006

SMEs and management systems

Special Report

SMEs and management systems
How small business can use ISO 9001:2000 and grow

Small business entrepreneurs constantly have to cope with the gap between payables and receivables and ensuring cash flow is precisely where ISO 9001:2000 can help.

How to make ISO 14001 implementation easier for small businesses

An SME Task Group at ISO has set out to develop recommendations to make it easier for SMEs to benefit.

• United Kingdom: Helping SMEs make the most of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001
• Australia: Small business is big business
• Hong Kong: SMEs get government support for ISO 14001
• Israel: ISO 9001:2000 for SME entrepreneurs…aged 12!
• Green productivity for small business

View Point

UN’s climate change senior official praises new ISO 14064 and ISO 14065 standards

According to Richard Kinley, Deputy Executive Secretary of the
United Nations’ Climate Change Secretariat, ISO standards are making
an important contribution to climate protection.

ISO Insider

• New ISO 10014 standard explains how to achieve financial and economic benefits
• with ISO 9001:2000
• ISO standards for life cycle assessment to promote sustainable development
• ISO standard will help purchasers by clarifying environmental labels
• ISO 9001:2000 for service providers

International

Italian railways on track with ISO 14001

Italferr, the major Italian railway engineering company, is progressively requiring contractors to implement ISO 14001 on a selective basis, but not necessarily to seek certification.

•Polish telecom administration overcomes resistance to change with ISO 9001:2000

•Tunisia makes a food safety date with ISO 22000

Standards for services

Standards raise performance of New Zealand’s health and disability services

Developing standards to improve the provision of complex health services is a key goal for Standards New Zealand.