ISO Management Systems
November - December 2004

Risk management

Special Report

Risk management

• Online version

 

Risk management
From right decisions to successful outcomes

Corporate governance is the glue that holds an organization together in pursuit of its objectives while risk management provides the resilience. The challenge is for the organization to identify clearly the risks it must manage and to assign ownership and accountability for their effective management.

The insurer’s view of ISO 14001 in risk management

While insurers rarely provide credits directly for the implementation of ISO 14001, the environmental management system (EMS) can serve as an invaluable tool in reducing an organization’s risk costs. An insurer explains how.

Viewpoint

Raising the credibility of third-party certification to ISO 9001:2000

Joseph R. Bransky, General Motors representative to the International Automotive Task Force (IATF): “The time has come for industry to demand more credible third-party certification to ISO 9001:2000 if certification is going to be meaningful and add value to the certified organization and its customers.”

ISO Insider

• Brazil-Sweden ‘dream team’ to lead development of ISO’s SR standard
• The ISO Survey – transition for ISO 9000 and continuing growth for ISO 14001
• ISO 90001:2000 developers honoured.

International

China’s Great Leap Forward in certification

China leads the world in ISO 9001:2000 certificates for the second year running and moves from 5th place to 3rd for the number of ISO 14001 certificates.

Survey of ISO 9001:2000 in Poland’s public administration

ISO 9001:2000 is being implemented in Polish efforts to close the quality gap between public administration in the country and in Western Europe.

ISO 9001:2000: wider scope and less documentation – a conflict?

Business Standards

ebXML: building the global e-business market

The ebXML (Electronic Business using eXtensible Mark-up Language) suite of technical specifications recently published by ISO promises to fuel the global e-business market by enabling enterprises in any industry, of any size, anywhere in the world to conduct business over the Internet.