ISO is international organization for standardization. It works for making management systems for improving factors that will help in making business grow. Organizations use the standard to showcase the ability to consistently improve on products and services quality, environment, OH&S, energy, asset, social accountability etc that are in strategic interest of company .
For example: The benefits of being ISO 14001 certified are that it will help and support your staff and improve your resource utilization. The benefits of ISO 14001 can be encapsulated in the catchphrase “Great things happen when the world agrees” – the slogan that prominently appears on the ISO website.
ISO 9001 is important in food manufacturing due to its risk-based control measures and standardization from the QMS. For a MSME, having a QMS allows you to monitor irregularities for food safety standards – and enforces a higher degree of quality industry-wide.
The results of following these standards result in business growth, greater profitability, and more cost savings for MSMEs.
Structure of ISO Management System
After the year 2015 ISO has started releasing its standard based on Annexure SL i.e. High Level Structure. This is done to promote integrated management system and ease of understanding ISO standards. Now, PMG as ISO consultants can help you give an insight of these standard. A typical structure can be written as:
- Scope of ISO standard
- Normative references
- Terms and definitions
- Context of the Organization
- Leadership
- Planning
- Support
- Operation
- Performance Evaluation
- Improvement
ISO standards are based on Plan-Do-Check-Act approach.
Difference between direct certification and implementation
- Direct Certification
Getting direct certificate is easy and is generally a matter of single day. But, identify the value added in your process?
Value added to the organization : Zero
- Implementation of management system
Implementation of ISO management system takes time to evaluate the bottlenecks, create awareness among the employees, building relevant documents, preparing internal auditors, conducting internal audits and management review. These things bring maturity and sustainability to the system.
Value added to the organization:
- Improvement of your credibility and image – Because ISO standards are internationally recognized standard, they are the basis for creating sustainable management system around the world.
- Better process integration – By looking at the overall process interactions through the process approach of ISO management consultants, you will be able to more easily find improvements in efficiency and cost savings.
- Improve your evidence for decision making –By driving your decisions based on the evidence, rather than on “gut feelings,” you can be more focused on applying resources to the areas that will improve efficiencies and increase cost savings with less trial and error to find the right decision. Create a continual improvement culture –By adopting this culture to improve your processes and organizational output, you will find efficiencies and cost savings, including the use of systematic processes when problems occur in order to reduce the impact of the problem and increase the speed of recovery.
- Engagement of employees – Employees who are involved in the improvements of the processes they work with are happier and more engaged employees. Who better than the people working on the process to best identify the areas that need improvement, and to help to test and advance these improvements when they are implemented? Engaged employees are more productive and will help the company better improve and save, especially when they understand how the quality of the process depends on them.
PMG’s Factor
PMG consultants can be named as ISO 9001 consultant, ISO 14001 consultant, ISO 45001 consultant, which aims at developing the competence in the organization by making the employees do the work under the continuous guidance and gainful knowledge experience.
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