ISO 9001

[mylo74]

Morning all, Anyone know what the acronym ISO stands for in the above??????????

[sft42]

All your International Orginisation for Standerdisation questions will be answered here http://www.iso.org/iso/en/ISOOnline.openerpage

[Pinotage]

International Standards Organisation, or more properly International Organisation for Standardisation. 9001 is the one dealing with quality management, and for all practical purposes it has no value.

[rja211077]

what does 'for all practical purposes it has no value' mean? it costs my company a fortune to implement and maintain 9001, 14001 and OHSAS 18001 and i'm sure we wouldn't do it if they were totally without merit. some of our biggest clients demand that we have them or they won't use us.

[BenDToy]

Pinotage - I also challenge this sweeping statement. Most, if not all, decent businesses, of all types, around the world, are proud of their achievements in attaining this certification of their quality management systems. I would be interested to know what makes you think you know better than them!

[mylo74]

Guy's Guy's Guy's! Please lets night argue over this, I appreciate the answers given and the statements stated. My company is currently undergoing many ISO accreditation audits; thus I understand the importance of this when seen by external prospective clients!

[Pinotage]

It's totally without value as far as ensuring quality. All it requires is that a company has documented procedures that are maintained. There is no requirement that these procedures produce quality. You could be a clothes manufacturer producing one legged trousers and get ISO9001 as long as this was documented in your procedures.

Of course its of value to all the firms that do the certifying, and some firms have to go through the nonesense because thats demanded of by their customers, but having ISO9001 is no guarantee of quality.

Our company went through the ISO9000 (as was then) process some years ago and it made no change to quality. My partner was the ISO9001 responsible person at her company ...

[ahadarzi]

This thread is about 12 years old. But, hope my answer will useful for others.

ISO stands for International Organization for standardization. It is a non-profit organization to develop the ISO Standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 22000, ISO 20000 and more.