8 Principles of ISO 9001

by | Apr 14, 2015 | ISO 14001 2015

There are  8 principles of ISO 9001. This post will help you to know those principles.

ISO 9001 is the most popular Standard among other standards. Untill now more than 19600 standards is published. No standard is as popular as ISO 9001. The standard is based on 8 principles which are mentioned in below:

  • Customer Focus: Customer is the heart of any business. Without customer no business can exist. So, the main target of ISO 9001 is make satisfy your customer. Customer satisfaction guideline is found in this standard.
  • Leadership: Setting objective is the main option of any business. Employee engagement is important to achieve that objective. Real leadership can help to motivate your employees which is helpful to fulfill your objective.
  • Involvement of Peoples: Without employees a company cannot be run. If all employees do his duty properly then the goal of the company can be achieved. So, people’s involvement is very important in this QMS Standard.
  • Process Approach: A process is a combination of related activities to achieve a particular purpose. To apply a process approach idea you need  plan to provide a service or product. According to that plan you will have to work out what processes you need to provide that service or product. Preparing a menu is an example of process approach idea.
  • System Approach to management: Identifying, understanding and managing a system of interrelated processes for a given objective improves the effectiveness and efficiency of the organization.
  • Continual Improvement: It is one of the most important things of ISO 9001. Doing wrong is human being’s nature. But taking corrective action it can be removed and it will not happen again. This way continual achievement is possible.
  • Factual Approach to Decision Making: Use data or information before making any decision. It is not wise take decision on feeling or opinion. First plan what data you need, then collect it, review it and at last take decision.
  • Mutually beneficial Supplier Relationship: An organization is dependent on its supplier/suppliers. ISO 9001 Standard emphasis to develop supplier relationship. For existence in the business it is very much important.

If you understand the 8 principles of iso 9001 then it will easier for you to know this popular standard well.

What is Accreditation Body

by | Mar 11, 2015 | Accreditation Body

Accreditation Body is also known as AB. It looks after the certification body(CB). It audits the CB. It can also be called the authorization body. It supervises the CB. It sees  how the CB is working. So, this organization helps to increase competency of CB.

Accreditation body follows the standard ISO 17011. On the other hand CB follows the ISO 17021 Standard. Both the standards have come from ISO.

AB can be government or non-government. Both of them’s job is the same. There is no direct link of AB with customers. So, it is not your responsibility to know too much about AB.

However, accredited certificate has good value. So, before going to get your certificate you will have to be sure that you are going to get accredited certificate from your CB. Because there are two kinds of certification body: one is Accredited Certification Body and another one is Non- Accredited Certification Body.

Read more what is Accredited ISO Certificate

 

How to Select Certification Body

by | Feb 17, 2015 | Accreditation Body, Certification Bodies

How to Select Certification Body for ISO Certification?

From this article you will know what things should be considered to select certification body.

What is Certification Body?

Certification Body is the third party organization who provides ISO Certificate on various ISO Standards. This is also known as certification company. This party direct works with your organization. It performs required audits before issuing ISO Certificate. After issuing certificate regular Surveillance audits are also done by this ISO office.

What is Accreditation Body?

Accreditation Body(AB) is also known as authorization Body. It can be government or nongovernment organization. This looks after the Certification Body(CB). How your CB is working everything is checked by the AB.  However AB has no direct connection with you.

HOW TO SELECT CERTIFICATION BODY?

Before selecting your certification body you have to consider few things. If you think the purpose of the certificate is marketing purpose and meeting domestic customer and  local tenderer’s requirements then you can take non-accredited certificate. But if your business is international or if you have export business then you will have to consider internationally recognised certificate.

Only accredited certificate is internationally accepted. So, you have to find any Certification Body who has accreditation from Accreditation Body (AB). For finding new buyers for your product or services globally it is wise decision selecting a accredited certification company. You can check our CB and AB’s logo from the page CB page.

There is no specific value for any specific accreditation body. Because they all are operated by a unique and common standard which is issued by Geneva based Head Office ISO. But sometimes it is seen that some prospects ask to get a specific accreditation body’s logo in their certificate. In this regard they pay high cost for certification. Actually it is fully valueless and wasting your money only.

No stakeholder or buyer or interested party will ask you to have a specific logo or specific accreditation body’s logo in the certificate. They may ask only accredited certificate. Nothing more. Nothing more is required.  So, you can take any accreditation body’s  logo enriched certificate whose fee is the lowest.

On the other hand accreditation body has no connection with you. They will never come to check you or audit you. They audit your certification body only. So, in this regard choose a certification body  who follows  less complicated method, less documentation procedures  and finally at the  lowest price.

BAS and IQS both are accredited certification body from the UK. Advanced Assessment Services(AAS) is the only authorised agent of BAS and IQS in Bangladesh. Both Certification Bodies are providing accredited certificates in Bangladesh. Without accreditation BAS has following good things:

  1. Low cost
  2. Provide certificate at the shortest time
  3. Provide free training
  4. Expert auditors
  5. Instant quotation
  6. More flexible
  7. No hidden cost
  8. Certificate is accepted worldwide

Now it’s up to you. If you think you have understood the myth of ISO Certification then simply push the blue button to get idea about Certification cost or simply go on to read the various information from this website to know more about selecting your certification body in Bangladesh.

Advanced Assessment Services  has been providing accredited iso certificate in Bangladesh since 2012. It has many clients who are highly satisfied on AAS. They are doing their international business as well as local business without facing any problem. If you want to talk with our client about our services simply go to our iso certified client page. 

e-Waste Management in Bangladesh

by | Feb 11, 2015 | e-Waste, ISO 14001 Certification

e-Waste Management & Challenges in Bangladesh

e-waste management in bangladesh is very critical condition. There is no policy and plan yet though 15% of total e-waste of the world is being producing here.

Celebration of Digital world is going on. It is started on 9 Feb and will end on 12 Feb 2015. On behalf of Digital World 2015 a seminar was organized on e-Waste management and it’s challenges in the Bangabandhu Convention center today on Feb 11, 2015. I was attended on the conference. Many important discussions and proposals have come out from the discussion. Causes of e-waste were disclosed by the panelists and guests who were present in the meeting.  Possible ways to face this challenge was also discussed.

Mr Mahbub Hossain, EX President of BASIS, Mr Mahbub Alam  (Chairman of Wintel) Dr. Subhan Environment expert, Eng Mr Shariar of Kenwood,  Bangladesh Computer Samity Director  were present as  the special guests in the conference.

Lets’s know what is e-Waste? Though there is no specific definition of e-waste but we can say those electric and electronics product which are used in household and business purpose and have reached in  end of its useful life can be defined as e-waste.

Though worldwide in many countries there are policy for e-waste management but in Bangladesh it is still is vulnerable condition. From the policymaker and from Ministry of Environment of Bangladesh there is no policy and objective is introduced about this serious environmental aspect.

It is a matter of frustration that from the government official who are in the power nobody was present in this important symposium. From the meeting many things were identified. However, we hope government will take master plan to manage e-waste management policy. In 2011 some proposals were come from DOE by Fazle Rabbi but still there is no any implementation process yet. It shows government’s negligence about e-waste management in Bangladesh.

According to Eng Mr Shariar’s statement  around 3 hundred thousand metric ton of e-waste are producing  domestically and another 7 hundred  hundred thousand comes from import most of them are illegal and unauthorized expired e-wastes. So, total around one million metric ton e-waste is going to stock in Bangladesh which is around 15% of total e-waste of the world. It is really a great concern for a under developed and small country Bangladesh.

Various kinds of electric and electronic products including mobile phone, computer, old ship, computer used car, equipments and machinery etc are the major parts of producing ewaste in the country.  Around  two million mobile set are importing according to Mr. Mahbub’s statement.

Around 30 kinds of hazardous components are found in those ewaste. Among them Cadmium, chromium, Lead and mercury are most harmful component. Those are polluting our land, water and finally public health.

Mr Subhan said”in the air of Dhaka the quantity of Lead is 463 which is much lower in Bombay 360 and in Mexico it is 383 mili micron” So, still Dhaka is the most polluted city among others in the world. In this regard Bangladesh government should stop import used car from Japan to reduce the lead level in Dhaka’s air.

From the discussion it was come out that the following things are responsible of making ewaste in the country:

  • Rapid change of technology
  • Rapid expansion of internet facilities
  • Lack of regulations on import electronic and electric and transport product
  • Blind fallowness
  • Lac of awareness
  • No policy in this issue

Possible ways to Control e-Wastes:

  • Create awareness among the consumers nationwide.
  • Introduce replacement policy for mobile sellers/manufacturers
  • Green product using habit
  • Introduce regulation and law
  • Set accountable authority
  • Introduce recycling policy
  • Award giving program to the consumers
  • Manufacturing time there should be policy about recycling
  • Introducing a subject in school and college about e-wastes management
  • Government can encourage to establish recycling industry like AZIZU Reclycling

As an ISO Lead auditor I can suggest to government to introduce regulation for mobile, computer, used car, electronics and electrical products importers, ship breakers for adopting EMS/ISO 14001 Standard which is the international guideline for managing e-waste effectively.  Advanced Assessment Services is the authorized Certification Body Agent in Bangladesh who are providing Environmental Management System Certificate at the lowest price. You can contact with the company here