World Standards Day 2017: ISO Standards Make Cities Smarter by Ashleigh Cunningham – Wednesday, 3 October 2017 World Standards Day takes place on the 14th of October each year – 2017’s theme is titled: “Standards make cities smarter.” Cities across the globe face challenges that are unique to each of them and that require a … Read more
ISO 26000 and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by Ashleigh Cunningham – Wednesday, 6 September 2017 Businesses and organisations have an important relationship with society and the environment in which they exist. Whilst some don’t realise this relationship exists, others strive to ensure that the delicate balance of the relationship is maintained. Without doing so, … Read more
Why is ISO 22000 FSSC important? by Ashleigh Cunningham – Friday, 7 July 2017 Over the past months, there has been great turbulence in the Global Poultry Industry, as unanticipated challenges and risks have arisen. These have arrived in the form of controversy surrounding poultry imports and exports, as well as recent outbreaks of Avian … Read more
Transition Planning Guidance: ISO 9001:2015 by Tony Cunningham – Tuesday, 20 June 2017 There is a lot of discussion in the world regarding the change from ISO 9001:2008 to ISO 9001:2015. This blog post seeks to offer some insight into the published facts, in order to assist those implicated by the changes. It therefore in … Read more
5 Steps to Organisational Knowledge Management by Tony Cunningham – Tuesday, 20 June 2017 What is Organisational Knowledge? One of the new requirements of ISO 9001:2015 includes the need for management of Organisational Knowledge (Clause 7.1.6). The challenge with this need is that most companies find the requirement rather ambiguous. Organisational Knowledge is not defined … Read more
Revision of ISO 17025: What you need to know by Tony Cunningham – Tuesday, 20 June 2017 Like so many other ISO standards, ISO 17025 is under revision to accommodate the new high-level structure published in ISO Directive 1 Annex SL and considerations from the revised ISO 9001:2015. Publication is expected late 2016 or early … Read more