ISO 9001 Is Being Revised

To retain relevance, ISO 9001 must continue to accommodate evolving realities

The buzz has begun. ISO 9001 is being revised. There hasn’t been a revision in about 10 years, so it’s due—if not overdue. Still, there are individuals who don’t understand the justification or the purpose of the revision. After all, it’s a perfectly good standard. So, what’s up?

It’s worth spending a little time talking about how we got to this point. Here’s the typical scenario for initiating a revision process.

Per the ISO directives, a standard is required to go through systematic review no more than five years after its release date. The systematic review can be done sooner than the five-year anniversary if it’s deemed appropriate by the technical committee for a whole variety of reasons. Here’s an important point: Systematic review isn’t synonymous with automatic revision. The reviews must take place at the prescribed interval. The decision to revise or not is the output of that review. So, the persisting misperception that standards must be revised every five years is false.

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"Technical experts"

why not changing the name of the document ?

Would the TC 176 agree to go as far as changing the title of the standard ? Going from "management of quality" to "quality of management" ? This would help most quality managers gaining real support from the CEOs.

Apart from that, I would suggest :

* to introduce risk management as the eighth principle of quality;

* to dissociate risks from opportunities, as they cannot be managed in the same way (risks are mostly systemic, and can be managed at the system level, when opportunities are generally circumstancial;

* to add 3 new items in the list of outputs of the management review:

** the audit program (I'm not talking about planning);

** a status on the adequacy of the quality policy;

** a list of preventive actions (the ones needed to maintain the level of control, when absence of action would lead to a degradation).

ISO 9001 Revision

Nicely explained Denise - as always. Interesting about the "Amendments" too, if Users read ISO 9001:2015 Clause 4.1 and the NOTES, they could have as companies have, addressed any Interested Parties needs and expecatations, if Climate Change was relevant for them. Likewise, for clause 4.2, if for the User as for 4.1, ISO TS 9002 provided suggestions that could have included Climate Change - if relevant.