by Abdul Halim | Jan 29, 2015 | ISO 14001 Certification
What is iso 14001 Certification post is a informative post for them who are interested to know about the basic of the ISO 14001 Standard. IT is also known as Environmental Management System Standard or EMS Standard. It is one of the most important standards to protect our environment living friendly. Air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution and sound pollution are the major concerns around the world. In this regard ISO 14001 Standard can be a good guideline to minimize the pollution level of those environmental aspects.
Who needs this EMS standard?
Various kinds of industries like chemical, leather, textiles, pharmaceuticals, dyeing, plastic, steel, electric substation maker which have significant effect of environmental aspects like air, water, soil etc can adopt this standard. This standard will guide those companies to reduce the impact on environmental aspects.
Now air pollution is one of the major problems caused by unplanned industrialization and most of them have conducted by developed countries. Now due to air pollution many killer diseases including asthma, heart diseases, bronchitis, brain diseases, cancer are killing huge number of people throughout the world.
If ISO 14001 Standard is implemented properly in the harmful industries this air pollution can be reduced significantly. Recent article about air pollution in Honkong is reminding us how important to implement this Environmental standard in industries to save our earth.
As an ISO auditor my suggestion is that government from each country should pass law in their national assembly to adopt this ems standard in all kinds of industries specially which have bad effect on environment. In this regard importers and international organization can impose condition on manufacturers or exporters to implement ISO Standard for saving our environment for our future generation.
What are here in this 14001 standard?
There are four major clauses in the standard. Technical all guidelines can be found from the clause 4. According to the clause 4 you will have to set some procedures to finding aspects and controlling method of impact creating from your industry. How and who will does what everything will be written in those procedures.
According to the standard you will determine what the impact status on environment and after knowing that you will have to set target to reduce the impact causing by your industry.
Power consumption can also be controlled from this standard. Using generator is the major concern in power shortening countries like Bangladesh. Workers and environment both are affected from this electric generation machine. Implementing ISO 14001 requirements can help to control this very noisy equipment in your industry means you are trying to reduce the affect of generator both for men and environment.
Waste management which is very important to keep our environment clean and healthy. From this 14001 standard you can learn how to manage your industrial wastes efficiently.
Sulfurdioxide, nitrus oxide, carbondioxide etc are toxic gas which are main causes of raising temperature of the environment. When you will be ISO 14001 Certified company you will have to control those gases created from your industry.
How to get this standard 14001?
If you think your industry is affecting the environment then you can contact any certification body who provides iso 14001 certificate. AAS is the low cost and UK based certification body agent in Bangladesh. Any kind of industry who is interested to take EMS Certification in Bangladesh can contact to to get ISO 14001 Certification in Bangladesh. To read more including benefits of ISO 14001 Certification you can visit the another post ems certification in bangladesh
by Abdul Halim | Jan 6, 2015 | ISO Training
No schedule is available right now. Please contact at info@aas-bd.com to know our forthcoming ISO 9001 Lead Auditor training schedule.
by Abdul Halim | Dec 25, 2014 | internal audit
ISO Internal Audit is required for ISO Certified Company to maintain its certificate properly. It is a great tool to see your organization’s quality status.
ISO Internal audit is a mirror to see your management quality. It says how are you implementing quality management system standard in your organization?
How your staffs are doing? Is there any leaking or is there any negligence in any department? All this answer will be found in Internal Audit result.
Internal audit is must do a thing in ISO 9001 Standard certified companies. This is not only for fulfilling the terms of iso requirements.
It is a great tool to see your company’s quality status. What is happening within your organization internal audit can find that.
Due to compulsory thing of ISO 9001 requirement it is your duty to perform internal audit regularly. In this regard, it is your responsibility to build an internal auditor team inside your company. After an audit, it is another must do a thing to perform management review meetings too.
ISO Internal audit helps to meet another requirement continual improvement. By performing internal audit, you can find the leaking inside the process of your organization. It is done cross section wise. So, it is helpful to find fault inside the organization.
ISO Internal audit also helps to increase employees’ awareness and competence. Company staffs become more serious about their duty. They become more attentive to do their work nicely. Otherwise, they will have to face questionnaires about findings.
There are many internal auditor training organizations in Bangladesh. However if you are looking for low cost and quality internal auditor training organization then Advanced Assessment Services can be your right choice. To see the training schedule, you may visit ISO INTERNAL AUDITOR TRAINING
by Abdul Halim | Nov 29, 2014 | internal audit, ISO 14001 2015
Internal Audit for ISO 9001 Standard
How many internal audit (IA)should be performed in a year for ISO 9001 Certified company or iso 9001 certification? Actually there is no specific requirement according to the ISO 9001 standard. However, the frequency of IA should be determined according to your quality policy and objective.
From the clause 8.2.2b the details idea can be found about internal audit for ISO 9001 Standard. Usually 2 times in a year is the mostly common practice all over the world. However three or four times can also be done and some organizations are doing that. Specially who are serious about their quality.
If a lot of nonconformity/nonconformities are found from the audit then frequency should be higher for continual development of the process. If the systems run well then lower frequency for IA may be considered.
About this topic of internal audit many ISO experts from different countries have expressed their valuable opinions in different way in linkedin based forum ISO 9001 for small business. You can check it from this ISO Forum link
Though there is differences about IA but every expert of ISO 9001 is agreed and it is mandatory to do Internal audit for ISO 9001 Standard Certified company. With internal audit Management review is also mandatory for certification and for iso 9001 certified companies.
Why Internal Audit for ISO 9001 Standard is mandatory?
Internal audit is the tool to see your company’s status. In another word what are happening inside your company, where is gap for what, where is good for what etc can be known from this item.
As a company owner it is not possible for you to visit all sections of all departments. But as a sample basis you can see actually what is happening in your company by performing internal audit. From this internal audit result you can take decision to develop any weak section of any department of your company.
How to do Internal Audit for ISO 9001 Standard Certification/Certified Company?
You can hire an ISO 9001 consultant or you can build internal auditor team by your staffs inside your company. There are many iso training organizations or Certified ISO 9001 Lead Auditors in Bangladesh who can provide training for building internal auditor team inside your company premises. To find one you may contact the page aas ISO consultancy or call now 01742125232.
by Abdul Halim | Oct 31, 2014 | ISO 14001 2015, iso9000
ISO9001 History
ISO9001 History with Idea about ISO 9000, 9001, 9002, 9003 Standards;
ISO 9000:1987 is the first Quality Management System Standard from ISO. Probably many of you are waiting eagerly that when Iso 9002 or 9003 standard will be published from ISO? The answer is that it will never be published. Why? The answer is as following:
From British standard BS 5750 the ISO Standard 9001 has come. When the iso9001 was the first quality management system standard came in 1987, then three other standards like 9001, 9002 and 9003 were also published. In a word we can say all these four standards were published simultaneously in 1987. But all these standards had some restriction. Individually none of those standards was not completed standard. There was some deficit of requirements of all of those QMS standards.
9k is a group of series. Based on 9001 other auxiliary standards like 9002,9003 etc have been published. But certificate is issued only on ISO 9001. Other series are not for certification. Those series are helpful to understand 9001.
iso9001 was published in 1987 as a first quality management system standard from 9k series. One of the major deficiencies was creation of new product or design and development of new product was not included in the first version of ISO 9001 Standard. Process control, purchasing raw materials, servicing etc was also not present in the first version of standard 9001. But it uses inspection and testing to ensure that final products and services meet specified requirements.
Due to some lack of requirements it was revised in 1994. Some necessary things and changes were included in this revision. But it could not include all necessary requirements. So it was revised again in 2000. In this revision it was named as a 9001:2000 Standard. PDCA cycle has been emphasized in this version of qms standard 9001:2000. Some important requirements, important approaches, some flexibility etc have been added in this new version of ISO 9001. Details can be found from this link http://www.praxiom.com/iso90012000v1994.htm
Again in 2008 the 9001 standard was revised and it was published as ISO 9001:2008. Outsourced processed has been described more clearly in the 2008 version. The old version 2000 has described that outsourced process must be controlled. But in 2008 version it specifies the type, nature and extend of control.
ISO 9001 2008 version has expanded the idea about documentation to include all qms process records which was not in previous version. Relevant external documents can be controlled which are related to qms not all of them.
In 9001 2000 version says anybody can be a MR but in 2008 version it said MR must be a part of top management.
Competence of staffs was not emphasized in old version of iso 9001 but in new version of ISO 9001 has qms task must be carried out by competent staffs of the organization.
Information system was not included in 2000 version but in 2008 version that was included in the infrastructure section of clause no 6.
Work environment has explained more clearly in the new version which was not present in details in previous versions to meet product requirements
In new version post delivery idea has explained clearly. It mentioned about warranty, maintenance and recycling policy of the product should be cleared in post delivery requirements.
Design and Development record should be completed into three stages: Review, verification and validation has should be carried out and recorded properly.
Preservation processes were not mentioned in old version of 2008 along with purchase, production and service section. But it was included in new section of ISO 9001
New version has told about control, monitoring and measuring equipment but before it was device in 2000 version.
Internal audit report and result must be recorded according to the iso 9001 2008 standard but in 2000 version of 9001 it was not must.
Product release record must be kept according to the ISO 9001 2008 version.
In September 2015 version of iso9001 has been published. Some good things have been included in this revision. Context of the organization, risk and opportunity should be assessed in this new version. See more about iso 9001:2015
