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ON FIELD TECHNOLOGY

Iso 9001:2015
a risk to be run

The countdown is underway for

the new ISO, the most widely-known

standard regulating Quality

Management Systems, and for this

reason it is being anxiously awaited

by the companies. The new version of the standard will be

published in September BY SAVINA NICCOLI

T he Year 2015 promises to be one of sig- • More involvement of top management.
nificant change in quality certification: • A revised structure that aligns the stan-
the two new standards that will become
valid (ISO 9001, in September, and ISO 14001 dard to all the other management stan-
in November) will be an almost obligatory dards, in this way facilitating integration.
and decisive requisite for participation in • More immediate application in the ser-
calls for tenders, above all in the public mar- vices sector.
ket, and even for contracts of modest value. • Greater flexibility in the type and use of
In particular, the updated version of ISO 9001 system documentation, with a simplifica-
will place even more emphasis on the objec- tion of documental procedure rules (the
tives of ongoing company improvement and “Quality Manual” will no longer exist).
the search for greater and greater internal and ISO 14001, instead, regulates the manage-
final customer satisfaction. Compared to its ment of the environmental aspects impact-
previous version, ISO 9001:2015 modernizes ed by company processes and the need to
the approach, thanks to: rationalize the use of resources and optimize
• Greater emphasis on added value for or- energy consumption.

ganizations and consumers. The new ver- The risk approach
sion is much more oriented to results and
improving results. As regards ISO 9001:2015, particular atten-
• Greater emphasis on risk management tion is placed on the question of company
• The requests for the company to take feed- risk in its entirety, and therefore not limited
back from all parties and processes in- to only financial risk or safety/security re-
volved (and not only from clients) into lated risks as so frequently occurs. The needs
consideration. for training in the greater awareness of the
importance of “risk-based thinking“ culture

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