ISO 9001 Standard is a quality management system standard. Any kind of organization can adopt this international standard to develop company’s processes for demonstrating his ability to consistently provide products and services that meet customer and regulatory requirements.
If any organization wants to do business with famous or big organization then he needs this standard. If any organization wants to work as a supplier for any government organization then he needs this standard ISO 9001.
Now the question is why the big corporation or government organizations ask for small company, contractor, supplier or vendor to having this standard? There are few reasons of this rquirement: Number one is worry. The big company is worry about the small company and his capacity to supply the materials, products or services what he requires. He is not sure how the small company or his vendor maintains quality in his management. The conglomerate is worry about the ontime receiving the materials or services from the small company or vendor.
Like big organization the international buyers or importers are also worry about the exporter. They always think if he gives order to the manufacturer or supplier in another country will that company be able to deliver the products or services ontime and by maintaining quality? That’s why the buyers from abroad give condition to the supplier, exporter or manufacturers in developing countris to adopt ISO 9001 Standard.
Big organizations or foreign companies can be assured that a small company can supply his ordered product or services ontime and by maintain quality if a small company adopt ISO 9001 Standard in his organization. That’s why they look for ISO 9001 Certified organization around the world.
So, we can see that ultimately a small or SME organization needs ISO 9001 Certification to prove quality and consistently provide products or services inside the the country or in abroad.
Disadvantages of Small company or SME organizations. There are two major problems for small compnies to adopt ISO Standard 9001. First of all cost and the second one is competent staff. During the economic inflation time many SME organizations do not have enough money in their hands and they do have ability to hire the quality staff who are expert in English and who has knowledge of ISO 9001 Certification.
Considering the economic crisis situation AAS is providing ISO 9001 Certification services to the SME organizations in Bangladesh at the lowest cost ever. The most attractive offer from AAS is one year validity ISO 9001 Certificate. Which SME is not able to spend 1500 dollars at a time but he can spend 500 dollars easily. So just by spending 500 dollars an SME organization can adopt ISO 91001 Certificate from AAS.
The another problem for adopting ISO 9001 Certificate is ISO training. Without ISO training you no company can adopt or implement ISO standard in his organization. For training usually a company has to pay around 500-1000 dollars. It is also a pain for SME organization. To reduce this pain AAS provides free ISO Training to its prospects.
ISO 9001 Clause 7 for 2015 version is also known as Support. This support is for the organization for establish implementation and maintain of quality management system. Top management will provide it. There is several sub clauses and sub sub clauses in this standard. Resources, Competence, Awareness, Communication and documented information are the main topics of this standard of ISO 9001 Clause 7.
People, Infrastructure, Environment, Monitoring and Measuring Devices, Organizational Knowledge are the main sub sub clauses of Resources. For proper implementation of QMS the above topics are necessary and the top management will ensure that those all are present in the organization.
To ensure competence the company will verify the education, work experience training etc for the people.
After setting quality policy and objectives that shall be communicated to the all staffs for effective implementation of QMS ISO 9001 2015.
Communication guideline shall be there for external and internal communication. To ensure this guideline what, when whom to how to and who word can be used.
The company will determine what documented information is required for the effectiveness of the qms. Based on company size, type, activities, processes this documents may differ from company to company. The company may also follow the document control procedure in this regard. All kind of support including the above should be placed by top management according to the ISO 9001clause 7.
Quality Certificate is a popular keyword right now in Bangladesh. So, this is the keyword of my post in this month. Though there is many meaning of quality but here in this post I will discuss only quality certificate in ISO.
ISO 9001 is also known as quality certificate or Quality Management System Certificate. It is also known as QMS in a nutshell. It is issued by a Certification Body.
9001:2015 is the
latest version of ISO 9001 standard. It started in 1987. Until now it is
revised five times since then. Now it is in fifth version. If you want to get
quality certificate then ISO 9001:2015 is the right version for you.
What does it mean
quality certificate? In ISO it means quality of a organization. Quality of different sections or quality of
different department in a organization. Quality for HR Admin, Sales marketing,
Procurement, Production etc. In a word quality for organization means
maintaining quality in different departments of a organization.
As an example for
quality in production, what does it mean? It means how you are maintaining
quality of your product? Are you monitoring the measurement of the product when
it is producing, Does it meet the client’s requirement or your own
specification data? Are you keeping record of your error products? Are you
taking CA Plan against frequently happened error? All these things are checked
during ISO audit.
Participating in
audit is mandatory for achieving and holding your ISO Quality certificate.
Audit helps to find the facts in your production. Production staffs are asked
to show the quality checking record, wastes record, machine breakdown record
etc. during the ISO audit.
Not only ISO audit.
Internal audit is mandatory for ISO Certification or after ISO Certification.
Usually internal audit (IA)is done inside the organization by it’s own staffs
or it can be done by hiring an ISO Consultant. Without performing IA you cannot
hold your iso quality certificate. It will be suspended if you do not perform
IA on regular basis.
So, getting a
quality certificate means you are appointing your supervisor or manager who
will give you report of your whole organization. ISO Quality auditor will find
the real facts actually what are happening in your organization during the
audit, usually once in a year.
Worldwide quality
certificate has a great demand. Specially for EU and Middle East Buyers it is
asked to the exporters or suppliers to have this certificate. It ensures the
quality of your organization.
For smooth and
efficient operation of a company quality certificate has a great value. It is a
great tool to see your organization. It helps to get new job from new buyers.
It helps to increase your internal quality. Finally it helps to earn more
revenue for your company.
AAS has been
providing quality certificate since 2012. Until now it has certified more than
200 companies. The quality certificates come from the UK. AAS has experienced
auditors who can help you to develop your organization and finally achieving
the quality certificate.
Ownership and custodian of assets needs to
be revised as per current scenario.
ISO 14001 2015 is the latest version of environmental management system standard from the international organization ISO. First edition was iso 14001:1996 and the second edition was iso 14001:2004. Both of them versions are out of date.
All standards are periodically reviewed by Geneva based international organization ISO to ensure they still meet market requirements. The current version is ISO 14001:2015, It is known as EMS international standard. and certified organizations were given a three-year transition period to adapt their environmental management system to the new edition of the standard. The new version environment standard focuses on the improvement of environmental performance rather than the improvement of the management system itself.
Now our environment is in great risk. From the beginning people have been destroying the god gifted nice nature according to his own intention without judgement of its good and bad sites. God has created all the forest, water, river, sea, air, animal for human beings welfare. But from the beginning human kind is doing wrong. Their knowledge is limited. They have been destroying the natures in unplanned manner.
After committing the great mistake on our nature now world leaders are understanding and gathering together to save our nature anyway. The world leaders sit together in a big city to discuss how they can contribute to save our earth.
Unplanned industrialization, deforestation are the major causes of destruction of our nature. Due to unplanned industrialization the rich country has cut the trees, polluted the air and water too much. The industrial wastes and harmful chemicals are flowing to the river, sea and canal. So, different water based animal are going to be destroyed.
Due to unplanned industrialization we have polluted our air by adding too much toxic gas and Carbon dioxide. To safe living on the earth it is time to reduce those harmful things from our environment.
To remove all those adverse things from our earth there is no alternative to work together. That’s why each year worlds leaders sit together to work on those issues.
We hope in each climate change summits should create some rules for the world to bring back our nature to the previous stage. Like reduce carbon emission level, reduce deforestation, reduce car environment harmful vehicle production etc.
To work unitedly it is very much important to adapt iso 14001 standard effectively. Every organizations around the world specially manufacturing industries should implement ISO 14001 2015 guidelines very strictly to save our environment.
Very strict message can be delivered to all the nations from the UN that without implementation iso 14001 2015 guidelines in each industry no country will get any assistance from the various international forum like UNO, IMF, WB, ADB etc.
Our planet is going to be heated by increasing 1-2 degree centigrade temperature in each year. If this flow continue the world will become unusable place for all creatures. That’s mean certain death of all creatures on this earth.
So, no more delay and no more negligence from the world leaders to take effective action plan to implement ISO 14001 2015 standard throughout the all industries. If world leader cannot do that our next generation will not be able to live in this earth.
The latest 26th UN climate change held on 1-12 Nov 2021 in Glasgow. Conference of the parties (COP26). The UK is committed to working with all countries and joining forces with civil society, companies and people on the frontline of climate change to inspire climate action ahead of COP26.
Different climate action can be seen from this link: https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateAction?src=hashtag_click
ISO 14001 2015 is an effective standard to reduce environmental aspects and impacts in the respective regions. In this regard all the governments around the globe can do mandatory to adapt ISO 14001 2015 Standard for each industry. It can help to save our nature from bad effect of climate changing turns from the world.
In Bangladesh AAS has been working to adapt ISO 14001 2015 Standard to minimize environmental impact from the aspects. It takes very low fees for that reason. You may contact this page for ISO 14001 2015 Certification in Bangladesh.
There are few sub clauses in this main clause 6 of ISO 9001 2015 standard. It is defined by PLANNING. Planning is required to achieve goal. Why planning and what planning and how to take planning to achieve goal etc has been described in this clause clearly. It is also instructed to consider clause no 4.1(external and internal issues) and clause no 4.2(interested parties and requirement of interested parties)
6.1 Actions to address risks and opportunities: Before going to do any job it is necessary to find what are the possible risks behind that job at the same time it is also important thinking of possible opportunities on that job or project.
6.2 Quality objectives and planning to achieve them: It is divided into two sub clauses like 6.2.1 and 6.2.2. It is mandatory documents for the organization. During objective setting following things should be considered: 1- Quality objectives should be consistent with quality policy 2- Be measurable 3- Take into account about applicable requirements 4- Be relevant to conformity of products and services and enhance to customer satisfaction 5- Be monitored 6- Be communicated 7- Be updated as appropriate. All of these are under 6.2.1. According to sub clause 6.2.2 following things should be considered: 1- What will be done 2- What resource will be required,3-Who will be responsible 4- When it will be completed 5-How the result will be evaluated etc.
6.3 Planning of changes: It is very common for your organization to change something if necessary. From this clause 6.3 it is required to consider the following things before make any changes:
a- Consider why you are changing and what could happen from that changes b- Be ensured that QMS does not get affected negatively c- Think what you need to achieve it (people/technology) d- Consider what changes need to be made in the organization to make it happen
Quality Certificate is a growing demand for various industries right now in Bangladesh. So, this is the keyword of my post in this month. Though there is many meaning of quality certificate but here in this post I will discuss only International quality or ISO Quality Standard Certificate.
ISO 9001 is also known as quality certificate or Quality Management System Certificate. It is also known as QMS in a nutshell.
9001:2015 is the latest version of ISO 9001 standard. It started in 1987. Until now it is revised five times since then. Now it is in fifth version. If you want to get quality certificate then ISO 9001:2015 is the right version for you. Previous all versions have been expired and back dated.
What does it mean quality certificate? In ISO it means quality management of a organization. Quality of different sections or quality of different department in the organization. Quality for HR Admin, Sales marketing, Procurement, Production etc. In a word quality for organization means maintaining quality in different departments of a organization.
As an example for quality in production, what does it mean? It means how you are maintaining quality of your product? Are you monitoring the product production process. Are you measuring of the product’s criteria during the production? Does it meet the client’s requirement or your own specification data? Are you keeping record of your error products? Are you taking CA Plan against frequently happened error? All these things are checked in production during ISO audit.
Participating in audit is mandatory for achieving and holding your ISO Quality certificate. Audit helps to find the facts in your production. Production staffs are asked to show the quality checking record, wastes record, machine breakdown record etc. during the ISO audit.
Not only ISO audit. Internal audit is also mandatory for ISO Certification or after ISO Certification. Usually internal audit (IA)is done inside the organization by it’s own staffs or it can be done by hiring an ISO Consultant. Without performing IA you cannot hold your iso quality certificate. It will be suspended if you do not perform IA on regular basis.
Getting a quality certificate means you are appointing your agent who will give you report of your whole organization or according to your certification scope. ISO Quality auditor will find the real facts actually what are happening in your organization during the audit, usually once in a year ISO audit is done.
Worldwide quality certificate has a great demand. Specially for EU and Middle East Buyers it is asked to the exporters or suppliers to have this certificate. It ensures the quality of your organization.
For smooth and efficient operation of a company quality certificate has a great value. It is a great tool to see your organization. It helps to get new orders from new buyers. It helps to increase your internal quality. Finally it helps to earn more revenue for your company.
AAS has been providing quality certificate since 2012. Until now it has certified many organizations in Bangladesh. The quality certificates come from the UK via AAS. AAS has experienced auditors who perform audits and ensure achieving the quality certificate.
