ISO 9001:2015

ISO 9001 is intended for any organization that delivers a product or service. The standard can be applied to any size organization regardless of the number of employees or annual turnover.
Whilst the standard originated in manufacturing, today ISO 9001:2015 can be applied to all industries delivering products or services.
ISO 9001 is not a standard for products or services; ISO 9001 certification is not a product or service certification. ISO 9001 is a process-based standard designed as a framework to control an organization’s processes.
ISO 9001 is not a membership scheme, no person can be ISO 9001 certified, and only organizations can be certified to ISO 9001. A person can be certified as an ISO 9001 auditor.

As with all projects a business may choose to initiate, a resource is required, and it is going to cost either time or money. Getting an ISO 9001 Quality Management System operational within a business will require time; this time can be allocated internally or can be assigned to an external consultant for a fee. It’s worth noting that external consultants will still require an amount of involvement from employees to get the system implemented. The amount of work required will vary depending on the size and complexity of the business.

All accredited certification bodies must use the same formula to establish the duration of audits required to effectively implement and maintain certification for any given organization. This formula is provided by the International Accreditation Forum and can be found here: IAF MD5.
Organizational attributes that directly affect the cost of certification are: Number of staff, number of operational shifts, number of operational locations, size of locations and overall risk associated with the nature of the organization.

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