ISO 9001:2015 - Quality Management Systems

ISO 9001:2015 is a group of standards and guidelines for Quality management and Quality assurance. ISO 9001:2015 proposes guidelines to systemize and formalize a series of company procedures, and to document its implementation in order to achieve product homogeneity and to conform to the specifications

The first and foremost quality standard at the top of the mind is ISO Quality Management Standard; ISO 9001:2015 QMS is such a versatile standard that it can fit into any enterprise irrespective of its size, environment and nature of business as it emphasis on customer satisfaction and continual improvement. ISO 9001 will help an organization to focus on its critical areas to improve efficiency.

ISO 10015:2019 - Quality Management – Guidelines for Training

ISO 10015:2019 gives guidelines for an organization to establish, implement, maintain and improve systems for competence management and people development to positively affect outcomes related to the conformity of products and services and the needs and expectations of relevant interested parties.

ISO 10015:2019 is applicable to all organizations regardless of their type or size. It does not add to, change or otherwise modify requirements for the ISO 9000 family or any other standards.

ISO 10500:2012 - Quality of Water Resources

Drinking water is water intended for human consumption for drinking and cooking purposes from any source. It includes water (treated or untreated) supplied by any means for human consumption. The quality standards for drinking water in India is prescribed by Bureau of Indian Standards laid down ISO10500: 2012. The standard was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards with the following objectives -

BIS has specified drinking water quality standards in India to provide safe drinking water to the people. It is pertinent that drinking water sources be tested at regular intervals and ensure that water is meeting the prescribed standards. If not, then, the extent of contamination/unacceptability and follow up is required.

To assess the quality of water resources
To check the effectiveness of water treatment and supply by the concerned authorities.

ISO 15489:2016 - Information and Documentation

ISO 15489-1:2016 defines the concepts and principles from which approaches to the creation, capture and management of records are developed. This part of ISO 15489 describes concepts and principles for records, metadata for records and record systems, policies, responsibilities, monitoring and training support. ISO 15489-1:2016 applies to the creation, capture and management of records regardless of structure or form, in all types of business and technological environments.

This first Part of ISO 15489 sits at the heart of a number of International Standards and Technical Reports that provide further guidance and instruction on the concepts, techniques and practices for creating, capturing and managing records. This includes subsequent Parts to ISO 15489 currently under development, which will provide implementation advice on managing records.

ISO/TS 16949:2002 – Quality management systems -Requirements for Automotive production and relevant service part organizations

ISO/TS 16949 is an ISO technical specification which aligns existing US, French and Italian Automotive Quality Industry. It specifies the quality system requirements for the design, development, production, installation and servicing of automotive related products.

ISO/TS16949 has been developed by the industry, the International Automotive Task Force (IATF) to encourage improvement in both the supply chain and the certification process. For the majority of leading vehicle manufacturers, certification to this specification is a mandatory requirement for doing business.

ISO/TS 16949 is relevant to all types of automotive supply companies, from small manufacturers to multi-site, multinational organizations located anywhere in the world. The primary focus of the IATF 16949 standard is the development of a Quality Management System that provides for continual improvement, emphasizing defect prevention and the reduction of variation and waste in the supply chain. The standard, combined with applicable Customer- Specific Requirements (CSR’s), define the QMS requirements for automotive production, service and/or accessory parts.

ISO 20121:2012 - Event Sustainability

ISO 20121:2012 specifies requirements for an event sustainability management system for any type of event or event-related activity, and provides guidance on conforming to those requirements.

The standard aims to help organizations improve sustainability throughout the entire event management cycle. ISO 20121 is relevant to all members of the event industry supply chain including organizers, event managers, stand builders, caterers and logistics suppliers.

The standard takes a management systems approach to running more sustainable events. It provides a framework to help identify the potentially negative social, economic and environmental impacts of events. Organizers can then remove or reduce negative impacts through improved planning and processes.

This should lead to improvements in key sustainability issues such as venue selection, transport, recycling or reusing demolition waste, creating a sustainable food strategy, promoting healthy living and creating skills, employment and business legacies.

In simple terms, ISO 20121 describes the building blocks of a management system that will help any event related organization to:

ISO 26000:2010 - Guidance on Social Responsibility

ISO 26000:2010 provides guidance to all types of organizations, regardless of their size or location, on:

ISO 28000:2007 - Security Management Systems

ISO28000:2007 specifies the requirements for a security management system, including those aspects critical to security assurance of the supply chain. Security management is linked to many other aspects of business management. Aspects include all activities controlled or influenced by organizations that impact on supply chain security. These other aspects should be considered directly, where and when they have an impact on security management, including transporting these goods along the supply chain.

ISO 28000:2007 is applicable to all sizes of organizations, from small to multinational, in manufacturing, service, storage or transportation at any stage of the production or supply chain.

ISO 28000:2007 was developed to codify operations of security within the broader supply chain management system. The PDCA management systems structure was adopted in developing ISO 28000:2007 to bring the elements of this standard in congruence with related standards such as ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004. The ISO 28000:2007 is based on the methodology known as Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA), which can be described as follows.

ISO 37210:2014 - Sustainable Development of Communities

Indicators for city services and quality of life

ISO 37120:2014 defines and establishes methodologies for a set of indicators to steer and measure the performance of city services and quality of life.

ISO 37120:2014 is applicable to any city, municipality or local government that undertakes to measure its performance in a comparable and verifiable manner, irrespective of size and location.

ISO 37500:2014 - Guidance on Outsourcing

ISO 37500:2014 covers the main phases, processes and governance aspects of outsourcing, independent of size and sectors of industry and commerce. It is intended to provide a good foundation to enable organizations to enter into, and continue to sustain, successful outsourcing arrangements throughout the contractual period. ISO 37500: 2014 provides guidance on good outsourcing, flexibility of outsourcing arrangements, finding business requirements, identifying risk, provide collaborative relationship.

ISO 37500:2014 can be tailored and extended to industry-specific needs to accommodate international, national and local laws and regulations (including those related to the environment, labor, health and safety), the size of the outsourcing arrangement and the type of industry sector.

ISO 55001:2014 - Asset Management

ISO 55001:2014 specifies requirements for an asset management system within the context of the organization. ISO 55001:2014 can be applied to all types of assets and by all types and sizes of organizations.

ISO 55001 will guide towards significant asset management improvements by enabling to meet the stakeholder, business and legal requirements. It is the company’s most potent defence for saving money and time. By managing the assets properly, organization will be able to use available assets wisely and get more out of their utilization while delivering added value to the business.

ISO 55001 is especially relevant in industries that are capital intensive, have significant physical assets to manage and have high fixed costs. This can include utilities, heavy and light manufacturing, distribution, construction, property management and transportation. It is designed to provide structure and guidance to an Asset Management System (AMS) to manage and mitigate risk, whilst benchmarking performance across all sectors and improving financial performance in line with organizational growth strategies.

SA 8000:2014 - Social Accountability

The SA8000 Standard is the leading social certification standard for factories and organizations across the globe. SA8000 measures social performance in eight areas important to social accountability in workplaces, anchored by a management system element that drives continuous improvement in all areas of the Standard.

This is a social compliance certification standard that encourages organizations to develop, maintain and apply socially acceptable practices in the workplace & provide common guidelines for worker in hiring, remuneration, access to training, promotion, termination or retirement not based on race, national or territorial or social origin, caste, birth, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, family responsibilities, marital status, union membership, political opinions, age or any other condition that could give rise to discrimination.

This standard provides the guidelines for child labour, sexual harassment, women cell, health & safety cell & discrimination which are world-wide acceptable.