What is an ISO Certification | What is ISO Standards | And Why? | CertPro

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In order to understand what is an ISO Certification and its importance for an organization, let us firstly understand about ISO.

ISO stands for International Organization for Standardization (ISO) which is an independent, standard setting, non-governmental international organization with a membership of 164 national standards bodies.

ISO Certification, by its definition is to certify that a management system, manufacturing process or service delivery and its documentation procedures are as per the specifications and recommendations for standardization prescribed by the ISO standard.

A BRIEF ABOUT ISO CERTIFICATION

• ISO was established on February 23^rd, 1947 and is headquartered at Geneva, Switzerland.
• ISO publishes international standards applicable worldwide that caters to various industries including but not limited to service sector and manufacturing sector.
• ISO certification of any specific standards can be attained by an organization based on their applicability and scope of work that they fit into.
• Any organization, irrespective of their size (1-person entity to 1,00,000+ people entity) and industry (service or manufacturing) can get ISO certifications based on their requirements.
• ISO certification is not a product-based standard rather, it is a standard used to streamline the processes of an organization in order to ensure that the end product/ service delivered would meet the desired results.
• ISO has three official languages namely: English, French and Russian; the standards would be published in these languages.
• Delivering quality products and services to customers are the major driving factors for Customer satisfaction, profitability and market leadership to any organization.

WHAT ARE THE 6 STEPS INVOLVED IN PUBLISHING A STANDARD BY ISO?

ISO standards are developed by Technical Committees based on the formal request made by the sector specific need of industry or stakeholders to develop a new standard.

STEP 1: PROPOSAL FOR A NEED TO HAVE A NEW STANDARD

The industry groups and other related stakeholders would approach the National Member of ISO from their country and request for a new standard and this shall be taken up to the ISO Committee.

Technical Committee reviews this request for the need of new standard and considering all the factors, would accept the proposal and the further steps would continue.

STEP 2: PREPARATION OF WORKING DRAFT

A working group setup by Technical Committee heading the project considers all aspects of the standard that includes its scope, key requirements and recommendations that form the content.

This group of experts would be from all over the world and the process of drafting the standard would be continued until the Working Group (WG) is satisfied with the final version of first Working Draft (WD).

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