Developing an Environmental Aspects and Impacts Register for ISO 14001
Identifying and developing a significant environmental aspects and impacts register is key to ensure the effectiveness of the Environmental Management Systems based on the ISO 14001 standard. The environmental aspects are all the elements, activities, processes and products/services of an organisation that can interact and has an impact on [...]
Conducting Effective Supplier Audits within Your Supply Chain
Conducting effective supplier audits is an established strategy in identifying, eliminating and preventing quality issues in a supplier management system, processes and products before the issues extends. However, there are several strategies to improve supplier audits. An important factor in the effective and efficient maintenance and operation of a [...]
Benefits of Outsourcing your ISO 17025 Internal Audit
ISO 17025 is the very first internationally recognized standard designed for laboratory quality system that offers a source for accreditation. It consists of two sub-sections of clauses, namely technical requirements as well as management requirements. It is based upon ISO 9001, but built for the special requirement of testing [...]
Use of Pestle Analysis to Define Interested Parties in ISO 9001
Basically PESTLE analysis is an abbreviation in which P stands for Political, E for Economic, S for Social, T for Technological, L for Legal and E for Environmental. It helps us in providing a bird’s eye view of the entire environment from a lot of different perspectives that an [...]
SWOT Analysis to Define the Contexts of an Organisation in ISO 9001
In ISO 9001 a new requirement is context of the organisation which mentions that an organisation should reflect on both the internal and external issues that can affect the strategic objectives of an entity and the planning of the QMS. The Clause 4 of ISO 9001:2015 Context of the [...]
Main difference between ISO 45001 vs OHSAS 18001
ISO 45001 is the newly published standard that supersedes OHSAS 18001. As all organisations currently certified to OHSAS 18001 has to transition to ISO 45001 within a 3 year period, there is a lot of debate on the difference between ISO 45001 vs OHSAS 18001. The new ISO 45001 [...]