ISO Management Systems

Next-generation ISO 14001

Future stakes for ISO’s EMS standards. With 15 years’ experience as leader of the ISO group responsible for ISO 14001 and ISO 14004, Oswald A. Dodds is delivering a personal, but informed view of the issues and stakes related to the next editions of ISO’s EMS standards.

Three questions and 3C’s. Anne-Marie Warris, the new Chair of ISO/TC 207, Environmental management, SC 1, Environmental management systems, shares her perspectives on future challenges.

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Sky-high ISO 9001

A new edition of ISO 9001, the world’s most widely used quality management system standard, is due to be published before the end of the year and its companion standard, ISO 9004, is undergoing revision and expected to be published as a new edition in 2009.

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Environmental labelling for managers

The ISO 14020 series of standards provides businesses with a globally recognized and credible set of international benchmarks against which they can prepare the environmental labelling they increasingly provide on products and in advertising, in response to consumer demand.

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The ISO 22000 series
Global standards for safe food supply chains

The launching on 1 September 2005 of the ISO 22000 series, developed by ISO technical committee ISO/TC 34, Food products, signalled the arrival of a truly global option for ensuring safe food supply chains. This issue gives a technical overview of the different standards in the series and how they can be put to use.

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Quality for the oil and gas sector

New, improved edition of ISO/TS 29001 - As well as describing what’s new about the 2007 version of ISO/TS 29001, the quality system requirement for the oil and gas sector, this feature looks at the roll-out of ISO/TS 29001 in the industry since it was launched in 2003. The article also covers the system now in place for providing third-party certification to ISO/TS 29001, along with an estimate of the number of certificates issued to date.

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Continuity and risk

Natural disasters, acts of terror, technology mishaps and environmental accidents have clearly demonstrated that no one is immune to intentional or unintentional crises. ISO/PAS 22399:2007 has been developed to address the global awareness that both the public and private sector must proactively prepare for unexpected, disruptive incidents.

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