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ISO Management Systems
January - February 2006

The future of ISO 9000 and ISO 14000

Special Report

Fast forward:
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.

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'Pay closer attention to needs of audits clients!'

Fraser Paterson has extensive worldwide consultancy and training experience in quality, environmental and integrated management systems and business improvement. In recent years, he has been increasingly involved in social and ethical consultancy and international supply chain audits.

ISO Insider

• 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

International

• Energy industry giant checks ISO 9001 conformity of suppliers – and 11% of audits give ‘ unacceptable ’results

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 % of audits were “unacceptable”, putting product conformity at risk.

• Dutch cancer testing lab reinforces credibility with ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accreditation

Agendia B.V. is the world’s first diagnostic microarray lab to obtain ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for its breast cancer testing activities. Its increased credibility as a profiling service has led to easier discussions with governmental bodies and potential partners.

• Japanese university sets ISO 14001 example for education sector

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.