Abstract: . . .  This initiative aligns well with the developments in the ISO 9000: 2000 which will include provision for continual improvement. Mike Gelderd, LRQA assessor, comments: “The requirement for continual improvement is only implicit in the current ISO 9000 standard. However, the new standard will include provision for continual improvement. It is encouraging to see an organisation already using this clause to its benefit.” John is in no doubt about the value of third party certification. He concludes: “Certification brings about the bonus of external audit and hence the requirement to prove implementation . . .
. . .  drafts and will decide if these can proceed to ballot and onto the next stage of development, a draft international standard (DIS). It was agreed and supported by the representatives of the technical committee responsible for the ISO 14001 standard, who also participated in the drafting of ISO/CD2 9001: 2000 standard, that significant progress has been made in improving the compatibility between the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. This will be one of most obvious differences that readers will note when comparing CD1 and CD2 versions of ISO 9001. Considerable efforts were also made to ensure that the CD2 reflected . . .
. . .  was done and agreed by the group the new procedure was written. A consultation process then took place involving all the inspectors. John believes that although this was time consuming it produced a robust set of procedures and helped to develop ownership and commitment to the system. The system QA benefits EA The Environment Agency is a well-known name within industry as it is involved in its regulation. One of the major areas of responsibility for this public body is to provide a service of consistent and effective regulation. In this article we look at the Environment Agency’s quality management . . .
. . .  the country. LR was the first company to be working in Bosnia immediately after the conflict and to carry out LRQA assessments to ISO 9000. One of the companies that LRQA has approved is Energoinvest with the first certificate being issued to Energoinvest IMRK in November 1997. Energoinvest employees SPECIAL FEATURE Below: Damage sustained to the Energoinvest headquarters, in Sarajevo, during the conflict. Energoinvest achieved its first ISO 9000 certificate in November 1997. Mr E Katic, LR’s manager Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, second from left, and Mr E. Bi?cak?cíc, Prime Minister . . .
. . .  challenge was to make sure that the certification happened within the agreed time scale.” LRQA is able to offer co-ordination from a single point. Based in Coventry, Olibhe Collins, international EMS customer service co-ordinator, looks after the SKF account In the December 1997 issue of the LRQ Review we featured an article about Swedish based international Group SKF, the leading manufacturer of rolling bearings. This looked at the company’s global approach to achieving ISO 9000 and QS-9000. In December 1998 SKF went one stage further when it also achieved global certification to ISO 14001 for its environmental . . .
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