Hint of the Month - October 2023

What is the purpose of ISO standards?

 

 

ISO is the most popular international strandardization body, it's based in Swizerland, and involves in its membership national standardization bodies in several countries around the world. ISO standards are developed by committees that are formed by the head office, with representatives from other member countries. These standards are issued in almost all industrial fields, and are adopted, and possibly adapted, by national bodies to be used as local standards. ISO standards are not to be considered a source of knowledge in case you want to learn how to implement a framework or a methodology for some discipline. These standards are in the first place reference checklists, presenting requirements for an entity to be considered conformant with the standard, and are the basis for audit so that a conformance certificate is issued to an entity. ISO certificates are mainly targeted to organizations, but individuals can be certified as consultants or auditors based on a certain ISO standard.