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The Committee Draft (CD) version of ISO 9001 (ISO CD 9001) was released for comment and ballot at the beginning of June. The Chartered Quality Institute (CQI), of which IRCA is a division, has Category A liaison status with ISO/TC 176, the technical committee responsible for ISO 9001. This means that the CQI has access to all relevant documentation, is invited to meetings and has nominated its own experts to participate in the work of TC 176 and influence the revision of ISO 9001. The CQI is now actively facilitating consultation and will comment on behalf of CQI members. The closing date for submission of comments and votes is 10 September 2013. IRCA, as the professional body for management system auditors and a division of the CQI, is exceptionally well placed to keep IRCA auditors informed throughout the development process. At this moment we expect the timetable for publication to be: Draft International Standard (ISO DIS 9001) April to August 2014 Final Draft International Standard (ISO FDIS 9001) July to August 2015 Publication ISO 9001 September 2015. So there is a long way to go before the fifth edition of ISO 9001 is published.
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To say that we can expect a lot of debate, speculation and comment is an understatement. We anticipate the debate to continue long after publication in 2015. The direction being taken was apparent when Annex SL was published and is even clearer now we have ISO/CD 9001. Some will not like it and may seek to block publication or choose to develop industry standards independent of ISO 9001. A second Committee Draft would indicate slow progress. The aim of ISO 9001 is to assist organisations in improving the quality component of their business management system, in the same way that ISO 14001 aims to assist organisations in improving the environmental component of their business management system. Annex SL helps us to think in terms of organisations having a single business management system, built on the organisational core activities and processes which are covered by the common text of Annex SL. With the adoption of Annex SL, the potential for radical change is significant think in terms of a single business management system audit and certification, and in terms of audits following the principle of a generic audit of the organisational core, prior to bringing in experts to audit the organisational specialisms and component parts of the business management system. Id also envisage an increase in remote auditing as it will be too expensive to amass the required team in one location. These concepts are for the future, beyond 2015, but are made possible by Annex SL. ISO management system requirements are not written for the express purpose of audit and certification. However, an important part of the development process is to ensure we end up with an auditable standard. At the IRCA Forum on 23 June there was discussion around auditability of ISO 9001:2015. The requirements need to be capable of being audited, which is the responsibility of standard developers. Auditors also need to be capable of auditing the requirements, which is the responsibility of organisations employing auditors. The discussion, led by experienced and well informed people, proposes that a significant number of organisations and auditors never quite understood the process approach, and that some requirements of ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 9001:2008 have been totally disregarded by a large percentage of organisations and certifiers for the last 13 years. If so, there is an urgent need to start addressing this now, before the next version of ISO 9001 is released.
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