ISO TC/176/SC2 Home Page

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ISO's Technical Committee no.176, Sub-committee no.2 (ISO/TC 176/SC 2) is responsible for the development of the ISO 9001 and ISO 9004 International Standards as well as other International Standards and documents in the ISO 9000 Family.

 

ISO/TC 176/SC 2 has been granted the following “scope” for its activities by ISO/TC 176:

 

“Standardization in the field of generic quality systems and quality methodologies, including standards which provide guidance on the selection, application and use of these standards.”

           

The Secretariat of ISO/TC 176/SC 2 is provided by the British Standards Institution (BSI).

The Secretary is Mr Charles Corrie, charles.corrie@bsigroup.com.

 

This web site contains the following sections:

1.     ISO/TC 176/SC2 current activities

2.     Advice and information on ISO 9001 and ISO 9004

3.     In search of sustainable success

4.     Interpretations of ISO 9001

5.     Links to the ISO 9001 Auditing Practices Group and Accreditation Auditing Practices Group web sites

6.     Information on ISO

7.     Information about ISO/TC 176/SC2 and about ISO/TC 176

 

Please either click on the above links or scroll down the page to access the different sections.

1. ISO/TC 176/SC 2 current activities

A link to a brief description of ISO/TC 176/SC2's current activities.

A link to a Report on the ISO 9000 User Survey.

2. Advice and information on ISO 9001 and ISO 9004

Since the publication of ISO 9001 and ISO 9004, ISO/TC 176/SC2 has been developing and periodically releasing supporting guidance documents to assist users of these standards.  These guidance documents have been collected into an 'Introduction and Support Package' and are further supplemented by a set of 'frequently asked questions'. Additionally, 'Implementation Guidance' has been developed to support the advent of the new edition of ISO 9001.

-          Implementation Guidance for ISO 9001:2008

-          Implementation Guidance for ISO 9004:2009

Introduction and Support Package

-        Guidance on ISO 9001 Sub-clause 1.2 'Application'

-        Guidance on the Documentation Requirements of ISO 9001

-        Guidance on some of the frequently used words found in the ISO 9000 family of standards

-        Guidance on the Concept and Use of the Process Approach for management systems

-        Guidance on Outsourced Processes

 [TRANSLATIONS - Links to French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish translations of these documents ]

-        Frequently Asked Questions

Additional information and Guidance

-        Selection and use of ISO 9000

-        Quality Management Principles and Guidelines on their Application

-        ISO Survey of ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 Certificates

 3. In Search of Sustainable Success

This site is intended for an organization's management and its purpose is to provide information and guidance on the use of improvement methodologies, based on the ISO 9001:2008 requirements standard and the ISO 9004:2009 guidelines. This will help organizations to make their journey towards the ultimate goal of 'sustained success' - achieving and maintaining their long-term objectives.

 

Please click on the following link to go to the site:

Next Steps

4.  Interpretations of ISO 9001

ISO/TC 176/SC2 provides a service to give formal interpretations of ISO 9001; however ISO/TC 176/SC2 will only accept requests for interpretations from ISO's Member Bodies (e.g. National Standards Bodies or recognized Liaison organizations). Individual users needing an interpretation should make enquiries with their Member Body in the first instance (for the listing of National Standards Bodies please see: http://www.iso.org/iso/about/iso_members.htm).

 

The interpretations provided will only seek to clarify the principles behind identified requirements in the standard; they will not provide guidance on how the requirements should be applied to an organization's particular situation.

 

To access the following documents, please click the link below:

 

§  The listing of formally approved interpretations

 

§  Guidance on the interpretations process

 

§  The "Request for an Interpretation" form

5. Links to the ISO 9001 Auditing Practices Group and the Accreditation Auditing Practices Group web sites

These sites contain a number of papers and presentations giving advice on the auditing of an ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management System, and on accreditation auditing, respectively.

 

Please click on the following links to go to these sites:

ISO 9001 Auditing Practices Group

Accreditation Auditing Practices Group

6. Information on ISO

Links to:

-        ISO's web site 'ISO Online' (www.iso.org)

-        A contact point for enquiries at ISO

-        The web page for ISO's journal 'ISO Focus'

7. Information about ISO/TC176/SC2 and about ISO/TC 176

Links to details about the membership, business plan, published standards, and current standardization projects for:

-       ISO/TC 176/SC 2

-       ISO/TC 176 (from ISO Online), or

-       ISO/TC 176 (from www.tc176.org)