ISO 9001:2000 guidelines for local government
| Autor | Roger Frost |
In fact, the similarity to a financial audit does not end there because the claim itself often has a future financial value in the market-place and many of the schemes currently use this value as a tradable commodity. In such cases, the believability of the statements is vital in order to allow such trade to take place.The resultant document will therefore require a delicate balance between the two disciplines.
The work of ISO/TC 207 working group WG 6, the joint working group with ISO/ CASCO has progressed very well indeed. The group met for the first time in conjunction with the ISO/TC 207 plenary meeting in August 2004 in Argentina and has had two subsequent meetings.
The experts that have been nominated to the group reflect a wide cross-section of interests in the area and include the following : practitioners in the field of greenhouse gas verifications ; validators of projects ; scheme administrators ; accreditors and people with vast experience of management system and product certification schemes.
With a group as diverse as this, there are bound to be differences of opinion and approaches. There has, however, been an underlying commitment by the group to resolve these differences in a way that remains true to the requirement for technical rigour but that will allow us to complete the document in the shortest possible time.
After all, we are repeatedly reminded that the world is waiting for a document like this - a document that will allow administrators to appoint and recognize verifiers and validators as being competent to carry out these important activities and thereby allow their schemes to function.
Where schemes exist, the administrators are looking at this as a tool that will allow the recognition of the validators or verifiers (by various means such as accreditation or peer review, or others) so that the markets can grow.
An increase of greenhouse gas as a result of our industrial activity is possibly one of the most serious threats facing mankind. We need to act together in order to manage and possibly mitigate the impact of this threat and International Standards are certainly one way in which we can make this happen.
An international workshop to develop guidelines making it easier for local government authorities to implement quality management systems based on the ISO 9001:2000 standard was scheduled for 22-23 May 2005 in Veracruz, Mexico.
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