Re: sustainable swag

>From Deborah
> 
> Quick question: is ISO 9001 mostly concerned with reducing paperwork
> within the organization? Or does it also tackle a range of energy-use
> and environmental issues?

ISO 9001 is the quality management standard. It stands in relation to
quality as ISO 14001 stands to environment: they are both about creating and
maintaining a policy within an organisation. Neither actually specifies what
you should do; neither lays down a specific standard that you should attain.


ISO 9001 and its various sibling standards are listed for sale here:
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnum
ber=21823
If you scroll past the list of parts for sale, you will see a short overview
of the standards.

They cost a fortune, but my university's library has a subscription to the
standards library. I expect that other academic libraries will also have
subscriptions. 

As you will have found with ISO 14001, there are many commercial,
semi-commercial, and other organisations that are aiming to sell you various
types of services to help with certification. If you google ISO 9001 or ISO
14001, you'll mostly get their sites; most of them have some sort of
overview of the standards. 

What they don't tell you is that there is no requirement to purchase any
help with passing the certification. It's years since I looked at it in
great detail but so far as I can recall, there's no requirement to be
certified either, but it does make it simpler to respond to a tender that
requires compliance. In the computer industry, such requirements are
commonplace for ISO 9001; I assume that ISO 14001 is intended to get the
same sort of traction. I don't know if it has or not because I try to avoid
responding to tenders as much as possible.

Best
Caroline Jarrett
Twitter @cjforms
www.formsthatwork.com
 

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