Re: Summary of Changes - ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 9001:2008
So, they should have been honest and keep the standard AS-IS and use the free Guidance Documents* to explain the clarifications. But, as you know, when you have a chance to sell millions of additional copies of your best selling product, you have to "invent" justifications of why people need to buy a copy of the document that adds NOTHING to the previous edition.
Amen. Don't forget that I also need to pay my registrar an additional fee for a new cert.
Just because you are putting your system up for assessment to 9001 doesn't mean you need to buy a copy of it.
Do you work for a registered company? I do and my auditor and my registrar disagree with you. I have 2 certification audits and 1 recertification audit under my belt and the auditor asked to see my copy of the standard at every one. They asked for multiple copies when I was registering to multiple standards. Don't even get me started on the amount of paper required if you are TS.
The old copy is now obsolete and to say you don't need the current revision in your system is leaving yourself open for a N/C don't ya think??????????
Yeah, I think. You leave yourself open to not having a valid ISO9001 cert as well.
I've never asked to see a copy of the standard unless the auditee identified it as a system document...One can have a QMS that effectively meets the requirements without referencing them at all.
As I've said before, if all my auditors were Randy and dB, I'd have it made. We need to discuss how to write a Quality Manual without ever referencing the standard that it is intended to meet. I think it could be done but, from experience, you'd have a fight on your hands to get that by 90% of the auditors that get sent my way.
Maybe it's cause when we were QS the auditor wrote me up for having an out of date PPAP manual and not having the latest rev.
Exactly. You are indeed Quality Royalty.