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ISO 9001:2026 is published. Sixth edition, dated 2026-09, and its foreword leaves no room for interpretation: “This sixth edition cancels and replaces the fifth edition (ISO 9001:2015), which has...
ISO 9001:2026 is published. Sixth edition, dated 2026-09, and its foreword leaves no room for interpretation: “This sixth edition cancels and replaces the fifth edition (ISO 9001:2015), which has...
« Mock audit », « pre-audit », « dry run »: the wording varies, the request never does. A company aiming for ISO 9001 certification, or dreading its recertification, wants to know what an external...
A hazard identification that finds only physical hazards is not incomplete by accident: it has looked at half the work. Workload, pace, role ambiguity, relationships and third-party violence cause...
A medical device manufacturer whose products are sterilized by irradiation buys ISO 11137-1, reads it, and believes the standard is now covered. A quarter of it is. The ISO 11137 series has four...
Every quality professional can recite what changes in ISO 9001:2026. Very few can explain how it got there: who voted, on what, against which thresholds, and why a standard that members voted to keep...
ISO auditor is a phrase everyone uses and no standard defines. ISO publishes standards; it certifies no one, keeps no register of individuals and awards no personal titles. What the phrase actually...
ISO 14019-1 was published in February 2026. It sets the principles for validating and verifying declared sustainability information, and it arrives just as assurance of sustainability reports becomes...
A buyer asks whether you are "HACCP certified". A tender requires "an ISO 22000 system". A retailer demands "a GFSI-recognised certification". These three sentences do not mean the same thing, and...
CE marking a machine is not a logo to stick on nor a formality to outsource: it is a declaration by which someone takes on responsibility, stating that the machine meets precise requirements. Most of...
Your environmental management system is in place, perhaps certified. Yet when the board asks for a serious plan on water, on energy or on waste, the system does not really answer: it says how to...
Published in December 2023, ISO/IEC 42001 is the first certifiable standard dedicated to the management of artificial intelligence. It gives organisations a structured, and above all auditable,...
A heatwave is not a passing discomfort. On a construction site, in a workshop or in a warehouse, it alters alertness, coordination and tolerance to effort. It turns normally controlled situations...
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