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The ISO Survey – 2005 ISO and The ISO Survey ISO is the world’s largest developer of voluntary international standards for business, government and society. Its portfolio at the beginning of June 2006 comprised more than 15 900 standards that provide practical solutions and achieve benefits for almost every sector of economic activity and technology.Of these, ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004, which give the requirements for, respectively, quality management and environmental management systems, are among ISO’s most well-known and widely implemented. They are used worldwide by businesses and organizations large and small, in public and private sectors, by manufacturers and service providers, in all sectors of activity. Many users decide to have their management systems independently audited and certified as conforming to the standards. Certification is not a requirement of the standards themselves, which can be implemented without certification for the benefits that they help user organizations to achieve for themselves and for their customers. Nevertheless, many thousands of organizations have chosen certification because of the perception that an independent confirmation of conformity adds value. ISO itself does not perform certification to its standards, does not issue certificates and does not control certification performed independently of ISO by other organizations. However, it frequently receives requests for information on the number of certificates and this led the organization to undertake The ISO Survey, which is now in its 13th year. ISO provides the basic results free-of-charge as a public information service on its Web site : www.iso.orgfor more information see this link www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/freedownloads/9k14ksurvey2005.pdf |
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