The 2018 certification authority shall be subject to the new management system standards
Recently, the international recognition BBS (IAF) a communique, the web will be a new version of ISO9001 and ISO14001 transformation identified as the deadline of September 15, 2018, if the certification organization in the new standard is still not completed before the deadline of translation work, the original certificate will be invalid automatically.
Communique noted that since March 15, 2018, conformity assessment agencies implement related initial certification audit and supervision of audit and certification audit again, must use the ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015, the two new management system standard.
According to the introduction, the new edition of ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 has made reasonable improvements based on the old standard.ISO 9001: the 2015 standard emphasizes the importance of leadership in quality management systems, risk-based thinking, and quality objectives and the strategic direction of the organization.ISO 14001: the 2015 standard offers higher requirements for protecting the environment, improving environmental performance, life cycle perspectives and leadership in the environmental management system.
Communique hope IAF members and recognized the conformity assessment institutions, can continue to encourage the certification organizations actively use the world's most important two management system standard, and in a timely manner to upgrade to the latest edition of the standard.