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ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is an international organization that develops and publishes International Standards.

ISO 14001 is an international standard that specifies the requirements to establish, implement, maintain and continually improve an Environmental Management System (EMS). ISO 14001 helps an organization to achieve the intended outcomes of its environmental management system and the value for the environment.

• Enhances corporate image, credibility and competitiveness to get more business.
• Improves environmental performance of organization and its supply chain.
• Helps to meet the customers, legal authorities and other interested parties requirements.
• Provides an opportunity to negotiate lower insurance premium due to effective management of environmental risks.
• Improves environmental conditions and motivates employees.
• Reduces cost associated with environmental accidents, injuries, ill-health and penalties.
• Helps to conserve the natural resources and potentially reduces the cost associated with utilities, materials and waste.
• Reduces cost of raw materials and supplies due to recycling programs.
• Helps to identify environmental aspects, impacts and operational controls.
• Potentially reduces audit frequency from regulators, customers and other interested parties.
• Demonstrates “due diligence” to create legally defensible position against possible lawsuits.

ISO 45001 is an international standard that specifies the requirements to establish, implement, maintain and continually improve an Occupational Health and Safety Management System. ISO 45001 enables organizations to provide safe and healthy workplaces by improving their Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) performance and preventing work-related injury and ill health, as well as.

• Enhances corporate image, credibility and competitiveness to get more business.
• Helps to meet the customers, legal authorities and other interested parties requirements.
• Provides an opportunity to negotiate lower insurance premium due to effective management of risks and hence less chances of accidents, injuries and ill-health.
• Ensure consultation and participation of workers to create best possible working conditions.
• Reduces/eliminates cost associated with penalties if implemented effectively.
• Reduces the cost associated with accidents, injuries, ill-health and penalties.
• Helps to integrate multiple health and safety programs under one umbrella.
• Potentially reduces audit frequency from legal authorities and other interested parties.
• Demonstrates “due diligence” to create a legally defensible position against possible lawsuits.

ISO 22301 is an international standard that specifies the requirements to establish, implement, maintain and continually improve a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) to protect against, reduce the likelihood of the occurrence of, prepare for, respond to and recover from disruptions when they arise.

The purpose of a BCMS is to prepare for, provide and maintain controls and capabilities for managing an organization’s overall ability to continue to operate during disruptions.

Any organization, regardless of its type, size, products, and services can implement this standard. The extent of application of these requirements depends on the organization’s operating environment and complexity.

This document is applicable to all types and sizes of organizations that:

• implement, maintain and improve a BCMS.
• seek to ensure conformity with stated business continuity policy.
• need to be able to continue to deliver products and services at an acceptable predefined capacity during a disruption.
• seek to enhance their resilience through the effective application of the BCMS.

This standard can be used to assess an organization’s ability to meet its own business continuity needs and obligations.

• Natural disaster
• Technology failure
• Utility disruption
• Intentional sabotage
• Cyber security attacks

• Conducting business impact analysis
• Preparing for potential emergencies
• Establishing business continuity and recovery plan
• Establishing security and protocols
• Managing risk and crisis
• Developing operational resilience
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• Enhances corporate image, credibility and competitiveness to get more business.
• Supports organizational objectives and improves its performance.
• Improves operations, supply chain and information resilience.
• Improves organizational capability to remain effective during disruptions.
• Helps to establish robust response and recovery process.
• Protects life, property and the environment.
• Helps to meet the expectations of customers and other interested parties.
• Addresses operational vulnerabilities and demonstrates effective control of risks.
• Reduces direct and indirect costs of disruptions.
• Protects assets, turnover and profits.
• Potentially reduces insurance premium due to effective management of risk.
• Reduces legal and financial risk if implemented effectively.
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• Enhances corporate image, credibility and competitiveness to get more business.
• Satisfies the information security concerns of customers and other interested parties.
• Demonstrates proactive control of information security risks effectively and efficiently.
• Addresses information security vulnerabilities.
• Helps to achieve information security objectives.
• Provides guidelines to develop policies, procedures and processes on how to secure and exchange confidential information.
• Demonstrates “due diligence” to create a legally defensible position against possible lawsuits.

ISO 22000 is an international standard that specifies the requirements to establish, implement, maintain and continually improve Food Safety Management System (FSMS). This standard also enables an organization that is directly or indirectly involved in the food chain:

• To plan, implement, operate, maintain and update FSMS providing products and services that are safe in accordance with their intended use.
• To demonstrate compliance with applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.
• To evaluate, assess and comply to mutually agreed customer food safety requirements.
• To effectively communicate food safety issues to interested parties within the food chain.
• To ensure that the organization conforms to its food safety policy.
• To demonstrate conformity to relevant interested parties.
• To seek certification or registration of its FSMS by an external organization or make a self-assessment or self-declaration of conformity to this document.

• Enhances corporate image, credibility and competitiveness to get more business.
• Supports strategic objectives of an organization by improving performance of food safety.
• Satisfies the food safety concerns of customers and other interested parties.
• Demonstrates proactive control of food safety risks effectively and efficiently.
• Addresses food safety vulnerabilities.
• Helps to fulfill the compliance obligations.
• Develops a culture of food safety.
• Demonstrates conformity to specified FSMS requirements.
• Provides the framework for effective communication with internal and external interested parties.
• Identifies, assesses, and controls food safety hazards.
• Provides greater consistency in output and traceability of products and services.
• Customer recognition and approval, as well as the potential to penetrate in new markets.
• Greater staff awareness about their responsibilities and compliance obligations.
• Potentially reduces audit frequency from regulators and other interested parties.

• Enhances corporate image, credibility and competitiveness to get more business.
• Helps to meet the customers, legal authorities and other interested parties requirements.
• Enhances quality performance by improving efficiency, effectiveness and capabilities of processes.
• Improves and maintains the quality of products and services.
• Reduces cost associated with defects, re-works, rejection, penalties, and recalls by doing the first time right.
• Engages and motivates staff by implementing best quality practices.
• Helps to establish and promote quality culture.
• Provides guidelines to improve internal and external communications.
• Helps to define the roles, responsibilities, authorities and accountability in the organization.
• Provides guidelines for selection, performance evaluation and management of suppliers.

• Enhances corporate image, credibility and competitiveness to get more business.
• Helps to meet the customers, legal authorities and other interested parties requirements.
• Enhances quality performance by improving efficiency, effectiveness, and capabilities of processes.
• Improves and maintains the quality of products and services.
• Reduces cost associated with re-testing by doing the first time right.
• Engages and motivates staff by implementing best testing/laboratory practices.
• Helps to establish and promote quality culture.
• Provides guidelines to improve internal and external communications.
• Helps to define the roles, responsibilities, authorities and accountability in the organization.
• Provides guidelines for selection, performance evaluation and management of suppliers.
• Demonstrates traceability of measurements and calibration services to international/national standards.

IATF 16949, coupled with the applicable Customer-Specific Requirements (CSRs), defines the quality management system requirements for automotive production, service and/or accessory parts. IATF 16949 requirements are fully aligned with the structure and requirements of ISO 9001. However, it is not a stand-alone document, but is implemented as a supplement to, and in conjunction with, ISO 9001, which must be purchased separately.

IATF 16949 was jointly developed by The International Automotive Task Force (IATF) members and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

IATF 16949 emphasizes the development of a process oriented quality management system that facilitates continual improvement, defect prevention and reduction of variation and waste in the supply chain. The goal is to meet customer requirements efficiently and effectively.

The IATF is a group of automotive manufacturers and their respective trade associations, formed to provide improved quality products to automotive customers worldwide.

All registered organizations are added to the IATF website of recognized organizations, a copy of their certificate information is contained within the site and can be verified at any stage. 

• Enhances corporate image, credibility and competitiveness to get more business.
• Helps to meet the Customer Specific Requirements (CSRs) of Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and other interested parties.
• Helps to meet the customers, legal authorities and other interested parties requirements.
• Helps to achieve continual improvement, defect prevention and reduction of variation and waste in the automotive supply chain.
• Reduces cost associated with defects, re-works, rejection, penalties, and recalls by doing the first time right.
• Enhances quality performance by improving efficiency, effectiveness, and capabilities of processes.
• Improves and maintains the quality of products and services.
• Engages and motivates staff by implementing best quality practices.
• Helps to establish and promote quality culture.
• Provides guidelines to improve internal and external communications.
• Helps to define the roles, responsibilities, authorities and accountability in the organization.
• Provides guidelines for selection, performance evaluation and management of suppliers.

This standard is intended for use by organizations that design, develop, or provide aviation, space, and defense products and services and by organizations providing post-delivery activities, including the provision of maintenance, spare parts, or materials for their own products and services.

This standard includes ISO 9001 quality management system requirements and specifies additional aviation, space, and defense industry requirements.

Note: Organizations whose products are deliverable software, or contain deliverable software, should use the IAQG-developed 9115 standard when planning and evaluating the software design, development, or management activities of the organization. The 9115 standard provides guidance to the requirements of the 9100 standards when it is desired to add “software” to the 9100 quality management system scope.

This standard is intended for use by organizations whose primary business is providing maintenance or continuing airworthiness management services for civil or military aviation articles and products and original equipment manufacturers with maintenance, repair, and overhaul operations that are operated autonomously, or that are substantially different from their production operations.

This standard includes ISO 9001 quality management system requirements and specifies additional aviation, space, and defense industry requirements.

This standard is intended for use by organizations that procure parts, materials, and assemblies and resells these products to a customer in the aviation, space, and defense industry should use. This includes organizations that procure products and split them into smaller quantities, as well as those that coordinate a customer or regulatory controlled process on the product.

This standard includes ISO 9001 quality management system requirements and specifies additional aviation, space, and defense industry requirements.

• Enhances corporate image, credibility and competitiveness to get more business.
• Helps to meet the requirements of customers in aviation, space, and defense industry.
• Helps to meet the requirements of legal authorities and other interested parties.
• Helps to achieve continual improvement, defect prevention and reduction of variation and waste in the aerospace supply chain.
• Reduces cost associated with defects, re-works, rejection, penalties, and recalls by doing the first time right.
• Enhances quality performance by improving efficiency, effectiveness, and capabilities of processes.
• Improves and maintains the quality of products and services.
• Engages and motivates staff by implementing best quality practices.
• Helps to establish and promote quality culture.
• Provides guidelines to improve internal and external communications.
• Helps to define the roles, responsibilities, authorities and accountability in the organization.
• Provides guidelines for selection, performance evaluation and management of suppliers.

• Enhances corporate image, credibility and competitiveness to get more business.
• Helps to meet the customers, legal authorities and other interested parties requirements.
• Helps to achieve continual improvement, defect prevention and reduction of variation and waste in the medical supply chain.
• Reduces cost associated with defects, re-works, rejection, penalties, and recalls by doing the first time right.
• Enhances quality performance by improving efficiency, effectiveness, and capabilities of processes.
• Improves and maintains the quality of products and services.
• Engages and motivates staff by implementing best quality practices.
• Helps to establish and promote quality culture.
• Provides guidelines to improve internal and external communications.
• Helps to define the roles, responsibilities, authorities and accountability in the organization.
• Provides guidelines for selection, performance evaluation and management of suppliers.

• Enhances image, credibility and competitiveness of an educational institute.
• Continually improves education system by stimulating excellence and innovation.
• Motivates staff for active participation in learning and professional development.
• Supports the acquisition and development of competence through teaching, learning and research.
• Enhance satisfaction of learners, other beneficiaries and staff through improvement of processes and conformity to the requirements of learners and other beneficiaries.
• Provides a framework to establish policies, procedures and processes for social responsibility, ethical conduct, accessibility and equity as a part of educational management system.
• Provides guidelines for protection of data and information.
• Enhanced social responsibility by providing inclusive and equitable quality education for all.
• Demonstrates more personalized learning and effective response to all learners, in particular those with special education needs and distance learners.
• Demonstrates and increases effectiveness and efficiency through consistent processes and evaluation tools.
• Provides ability to demonstrate commitment to effective quality management practices.
• Helps to develop a culture of quality and organizational improvement.
• Harmonizes regional, national, open and proprietary standards within an international framework.
• Extended participation of interested parties.

• Demonstrates the quality assurance program requirements for the provision of items and services to nuclear power plants.
• Enhances corporate image, credibility and competitiveness to get more business.
• Helps to meet the customers, legal authorities and other interested parties requirements.
• Enhances quality performance by improving efficiency, effectiveness, and capabilities of processes.
• Improves and maintains the quality of products and services.
• Reduces cost associated with defects, re-works, rejection, penalties, and recalls by doing the first time right.
• Helps to establish quality culture and motivates staff by implementing best quality practices.
• Helps to define the roles, responsibilities, authorities and accountability in the organization.
• Provides guidelines for selection, performance evaluate and management of suppliers.

ISO 50001 specifies requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and improving an energy management system (EnMS). The objective is to enable an organization to follow a systematic approach in achieving continual improvement of energy performance and the EnMS.

What are the key benefits of ISO 50001?

• Strengthens the competitiveness of organizations and reduces their vulnerability with respect to energy price fluctuation and availability of energy.
• Reduces energy costs and improves profitability.
• Enhances corporate image and credibility of the organization.
• Provides a better understanding between predictable energy demand and supply.
• A significant improvement of the energy performance level from an initial energy baseline.
• Supports the development of an energy policy and an energy plan to achieve energy targets.
• Creates awareness and a commitment in the organization about energy (i.e. consumption, use, efficiency, renewable sources).
• Improves the ability of organizations to manage energy risks concerning possible impacts in an efficient and effective way.
• Allows organizations to benchmarking processes and gain credible external visibility of energy saving actions.

R2 stands for Responsible Recycling and is a standard specifically created for the electronics recycling industry by Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI). The R2 Standard provides a common set of criteria to recognize responsible reuse and recycling practices, all along the used portion of the electronics lifecycle. R2 Certification is the formal program for evaluating and monitoring businesses in meeting the R2 Standard, protecting of the environment, the health and safety of workers, and communities, and positively impacting the movement toward a sustainable circular economy while, enriching the lives of people all around the world.

Any organization, regardless of its size in electronics recycling industry can implement this standard to meet the requirements of its customers and other interested parties.

• Reduces the amount of energy required to manufacture new products.
• Diminishes the environmental risks associated with creating new products.
• Produces optimal data destruction.
• Decreases health risks for recycling specialists as well as the public.
• Minimizes landfill waste.
• Promotes safe and effective reuse and recovery of electronic equipment and components.
• Emphasizes data security and the appropriate management of personal data.
• Provides a template for standardized labelling, testing protocols, and grading of both functionality and cosmetic condition of used electronics with reuse potential or a verified resale market.
• Ensures accountability and downstream control of the recycling chain.
• Minimizes environmental and public health risks.
• Demonstrates compliance with domestic and international laws.
• Minimizes liability and encourages reduced insurance costs for recyclers.
• Assists Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) with due diligence for their end-of-life electronics.
• Instills public confidence through certified third-party review.

COR is an occupational safety and health accreditation program that verifies a fully implemented safety and health management system which meets national standards. The objectives of COR are to provide industry employers with effective tools to develop, implement, assess, and promote continual improvement of their safety and health management system to prevent or mitigate incidents and injuries as well as their associated human and financial costs.

COR is nationally registered, trademarked and endorsed by the Canadian Federation of Construction Safety Associations (CFCSA) and is delivered through member associations that have a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to serve as the authority having jurisdiction to grant COR in their respective province/territory.

Each CFCSA member association grants COR Certification to employers, monitors compliance with program requirements and serve as an employer’s main point of contact for all operational aspects related to COR in their respective province/territory. CFCSA member associations have the flexibility to include additional requirements tailored to their industry, province, or territory within their respective COR accreditation program.

• Enhances corporate image, credibility and competitiveness to get more business.
• Helps to meet the customers, legal authorities and other interested parties requirements.
• Provides an opportunity to negotiate lower insurance premium due to effective management of risks and hence less chances of accidents, injuries and ill-health.
• Ensure consultation and participation of workers to create best possible working conditions.
• Reduces/eliminates cost associated with penalties if implemented effectively.
• Reduces the cost associated with accidents, injuries, ill-health and penalties.
• Helps to integrate multiple health and safety programs under one umbrella.
• Potentially reduces audit frequency from legal authorities and other interested parties.
• Demonstrates “due diligence” to create a legally defensible position against possible lawsuits.