BS EN ISO 9001:2015 – TC

What is BS EN ISO 9001 – Quality management systems about?

With more than a million organizations certified to it globally, BS EN ISO 9001:2015 on quality management systems is the most widely recognized quality management standard in the world.

It is a document that sets out what’s needed to implement a quality management system. Its guidance is based on several quality management principles including a strong customer focus, the motivation and implication of top management, the process approach and continual improvement.

What are the benefits of BS EN ISO 9001 – Quality management systems?

Using BS EN ISO 9001 helps ensure that your customers get consistent, good-quality products and services, which in turn brings many business benefits, including the following:

• Continually improve, streamline operations and reduce costs
• Win more business and compete in tenders
• Satisfy more customers
• Be more resilient and build a sustainable business
• Show you have strong corporate governance
• Work effectively with stakeholders and your supply chain

Discover how Fairford Medical – a UK healthcare SME – have implemented and benefited from using the BS EN ISO 9001 standard. Listen to their story here, or download the case study.

Who is ISO 9001 – Quality management systems for?

The BS EN ISO 9001 quality management systems standard is suitable for all types of organizations irrespective of size, location, or sector. From multi-nationals to SMEs, the guidance in this document can be scaled and implemented to suit your individual business needs.

At BSI, we have a range of BS EN ISO 9001 resources to support your organization and provide you with all the information you need wherever you are on your quality management journey. Within the same family of quality management standards, we also have the following documents which may be used to support your organization’s implementation and use of BS EN ISO 9001:

• BS EN ISO 9000 Quality management systems. Fundamentals and vocabulary
• PD ISO/TS 9002 Quality management systems. Guidelines for the application of ISO 9001:2015
• BS EN ISO 9004 Quality management. Quality of an organization. Guidance to achieve sustained success

What’s changed since the last update?

BS EN ISO 9001:2015 is the fifth edition of BS EN ISO 9001 on quality management systems supersedes the previous 2008 version. The standard has been technically revised. It includes a revised clause sequence, revised quality management principles, new concepts and the greater alignment of structure, content and terminology for all management system standards.

The 2015 version of BS EN ISO 9001 on quality management systems reflects many changes in the way we do business now – using new technology, with greater access to information, higher customer expectations, globalization, and the increasing importance of service industries.

BS EN ISO 9001 on quality management systems has lost none of the rigor of earlier versions but cuts bureaucracy by being less prescriptive and focusing more on the context of each organization. It guides organizations to build a quality management system suited to specific organizational needs without imposing irrelevant paperwork or requirements which add no value.

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