The new 2015 version is more modern and admits risk management among its pillars.
Often ISO 9001 is reviewed and the organization itself informs, if necessary, it will be revisited. In this way, the new version, called ISO 9001: 2015, differs from its predecessor, ISO 9001: 2008 and places in the top management of the organization the responsibility for the success of the implemented system.
It recognizes the importance of the final client and its speed to communicate and to reflect the positive and negative actions of the organization.
ISO is alert to the changes in the world in the last decades and tries not to lose its roots while continuing to dialogue with the changes that have taken place in society. It focuses on being more applicable and accessible to all types of organizations.
It should be noted that the 2015 version is based on 3 pillars, which are: Risk Based Thinking, PDCA and the Process Approach.
Important: Counting from September 2015, there was a period called a “transition period” of 3 years. So, the deadline was in September 2018. After this date, the certificates of the 2008 version of the standard will no longer be valid. Below, the three pillars of the new version:
• Risks: “the risk and opportunity approach provide a basis for enhancing the effectiveness of the quality management system, achieving better results and preventing negative effects.”
• PDCA: Plan, Do, Control, Action. Scored by ISO as a tool that can be used to manage systems and processes. One thing that must be taken into account is the fact that at every stage of the PDCA the thinking on risk management must be constant.
• Process Approach: It becomes important to address the frequent doubt that exists between what ISO9000 and ISO 9001. To do this, we must address the three ISO9000 family standards, which are:
– ISO9000: which brings the organization to the reality of QMS (Quality Management System);
– ISO9001: it is the QMS in its practice, it is the standard that puts into practice and that adds value to the organization through its practices;
– ISO9004: is the standard that deals with a finer adjustment after the company have know how in ISO9001. It opens the horizons of the organization to a strategic reality in an approach to the needs and expectations more specifically mapped of its clients and stakeholders in general.
The figure below sets out the structure of the new version of the standard.
It is very important to emphasize that attention that ISO pays to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which were established by the United Nations with targets to be achieved until 2030 (https://www.iso.org/sdgs.html).
At this point, ISO put the SDGs explanations as well as the related standards with each objective.
The United Nations are responsible for the 2030 Agenda which has as the main drive the SDGs. Organisations such as ISO own a lot of importance to these goals. These two forces go to the same direction for the world improvements during the 21st century.
Below, the summarized table with the SDGs and ISO Standards that have relation with the specific proposal of each SDG. Bear in mind that SDG #17, that deals about the partnership to achieve the goals, does not have a standard for that, but has a guideline published by ISO (https://www.iso.org/publication/PUB100269.html):
