What is ISO 9001? ISO 9001 is a quality management system specification, quality
management system being the policies and procedures and systems and processes in
your organization that are all about managing your customers expectations and
managing the processes that you go through to serve your customers iso 9001
training is all about taking the opportunity to learn about what's in iso
9001 and find out how it's relevant to your role and your responsibilities in
your organization and doing some training is a great opportunity to find
out what the efficient parts are for you to learn and what's in it to you what
great benefits are there for you when you learn about this standard and get
the opportunity to participate in implementing quality management system
in your organization why is iso 9001 certification important
well that's a great question external recognition of your quality management
system by an external organization is a great way to prove that you have systems
and processes in place many customers and business analysts in the marketplace
are quite skeptical of how companies and organizations operate so having external
iso 9001 certification of your organization by a third-party
independent person who comes in and has a look at your organization gives you
guidance and advice on how to improve or tips and tricks on how to improve is
great more importantly you can promote to your stakeholders your customers your
regulators people in your marketplace that an independent person has come into
your organization and does so regularly that's your proof independent proof that
you've got a great system in place that meets the intent of iso 9001 so external
certification is important because it's all about external third-party people
providing an independent approval or an independent there
of what you're doing how long does iso9001 certification last for
if the iso 9001 certification is part of the international accreditation forum or
IAF accredited environment so if you see the IAF logo on the bottom of an iso
9001 certificate your certification will last from the day it was started for a
period of three years so most likely it's a three on a three-year cycle and
the certification lasts for three years inside that three-year period you will
be visited by your external certification provider on either a three
six nine or twelve monthly basis so it really depends on the agreement with
your certification provider but the certification will last for three years
and that three years will be punctuated by what's called surveillance
assessments where they will come and see that you're continuing to maintain your
management system how much does it cost to get iso 9001 certified how long is a
piece of string it cost for iso 9001 certification is variable and it's
dependent on the size of your organization and the industry that your
organization operates within it's very difficult for me to talk to you on this
video about the cost to get certified but what I can say is that the size of
your organization and the industry your organization is in determines the length
of time that an iso 9001 audit or assessment will take and then the
organization that you're asking for a price from which could be best practice
they will apply their costs and charges and rates to calculate a proposal or a
quotation for you so reach out to best practice certification @ww best practice
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someone here Manning the live chat facility at first practice can answer
your question about how much it costs to get ISO 9001 certification what are the
requirements of iso 9001 now capturing a copy of iso 9001 and having
look through you'll see there's different sections to the standard and
the fun sections you know 8 and 9 and 10 are the improvement parts of the
standard but what are the requirements of ISO 9001 they are to plan do check
and pact so plan to check and act have a management process laid out that's going
to constantly improve how you deliver your products and services to your
customers constantly improve your customer service so that's the
requirement the requirement is to think about how you're going to deliver your
products and services and then have a system of self evaluation and review
plan-do-check-act to support how you go further if you want to know more detail
about the very specific requirements of iso 9001 follow the link in the
description below on this video across to our training academy where you can do
the iso 9001 essentials training course what does iso 9001 mean for your
employees iso 9001 for employees is all about having defined and captured and
planned processes for the roles that they're responsible for in the
organization it's about defining who needs to do things what do they need to
do when do they need to do it where do they need to do it and how they need to
do it that doesn't necessarily mean lots of policies and procedures but for
employees it gives them structure it gives them guidance and it gives them an
environment in which they can have some metrics kpi's performance indicators
performance tracking of the outputs of what they're doing so it gives them
structure it gives them organization it gives them guidance and it gives them
hope so in organisations that are growing very quickly or organisations
that are starting to become a little bit older iso 9001 gives employees stable
terminals for consistency and processes to follow now if those processes are
wrong of course they can be improved but it gives them guidance and organization
so that they can feel confident in the roles they need to implement what does
it mean to get iso 9001 certified well something we do here at best practice
is we verify that an organization has followed the intent of the standard and
is implementing a system that complies with the standard so we'll look at iso
9001 2015 and we'll look at your organization and we'll make a comparison
and if we can see that the way you manage things is structured to follow
the intent of 9001 and we can see that you're using that system so you've
designed a way and planned a way that you want to operate and you're using
that system then we can come in our team from best practice can come in and
verify you now we can also do that virtually if you are somebody who would
like some assistance either via Skype or Google Hangouts we can do that virtually
so what does that mean that means that you've got a management
system that complies with iso 9001 you've been externally certified and you
can compromise to your stakeholders externally in in the environment but you
have iso 9001 certification what is the difference between iso 9000 and iso 9001
iso 9000 is a great document for terms and definitions and descriptions and iso
9001 is a specification document or a standard document so in any iso standard
when you see the double-o one so iso 14001 or iso 45000 one the one means
specification or it's a checklist if you like so you can follow the standard you
can read clauses and you can see the mandatory requirements that are part of
building out the management system to comply with that document so the
difference is ISO 9000 terms and definitions and iso 9001 is the
specification you