by Rob Govier | Dec 3, 2018 | ISO Audit Preparation, The Diary of an ISO Consultant
A customer contacted me recently who needed a new ISO approval. The “driver” was to get the company through a tender process and into a new market. I specialise in getting businesses ISO-approved quickly with concise management systems. They contain...
by Rob Govier | Nov 21, 2018 | ISO 27001
Google “ISO 27001 Tool Kit” and you’ll be faced with a page of “too-good-to-be-true” offers. ISO 27001 certification is simple: Download some templates and fill in the relevant blanks. Call the certification auditor. “Tick, tick”. Done. We produce...
by Rob Govier | Sep 27, 2018 | ISO Consulting
ISO Certification and Objectives – A New Emphasis? The effect of Annex SL (the document which says how ISO documents should be structured and what they should contain) on ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001 and ISO 45001 is raising many questions relating to ISO...
by Rob Govier | Aug 7, 2018 | ISO 9001:2015
If there are clauses of ISO standards that you just don’t understand, such as The Context of the Organisation in ISO 9001:2015 then please be reassured. After over 25 years in the industry, I struggle with them, too. Here is an example: “The organisation shall...
by Rob Govier | Jul 17, 2018 | ISO 45001, ISO Consulting
Welcome. ISO 45001 Goodbye OHSAS 18001. Will it change the perception of this whole health and safety business? I hope so. It seems a strange that a strategy to prevent injury to workers has become regarded as some sort of time-wasting joke. Health and Safety really...