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In February 2024, ISO, together with the IAF, published a communiqué on climate change in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
ISO, including members, is committed to working with stakeholders and partners to ensure that international standards and publications support the successful
– implementation of the Paris Agreement,
– the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and its
– call to action on adaptation and resilience
to advance these goals.

The following accredited standards are affected:
ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 45001:2018, ISO 22000:2018 and ISO 50001:2018.
All of the mentioned standards are amended with following text:
4.1
Add the following sentence at the end of the subclause:
The organisation shall determine whether climate change is a relevant issue.
4.2
Add the following note at the end of the subclause:

NOTE relevant interested parties can have requirements related to climate change.

Climate change affects us all, and the changes must be consistently introduced and implemented in the management system. Take action now to combat climate change and its effects. We have set ourselves the goal of implementing these measures in the audits with a transition period until February 2027.

For further information
UN, Goal nr.13
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/
IAF, International Accreditation Forum
https://iaf.nu/en/news/iaf-and-iso-publish-joint-communique/
ISO, International Organization for Standardization
https://www.iso.org/sdgs.html

Lukas Beljean, CEO of QS ZURICH AG, and Dr. Sameer Kumar (left), our contact point in Dubai, celebrate over ten years of excellent collaboration.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Sharjah Housing Programme, Government of Sharjah, UAE, celebrated its success in obtaining the international accreditation for the ISO certificate in Quality Management ISO 9001, Health & Safety ISO 45001 and Collaborative business relationship management systems ISO 44001, accomplishing a new achievement added to the Department’s record of achievements during the last period and enhancing the role of the Department in the Emirate of Sharjah.
The Department was able to obtain these certificates after fulfilling all requirements and regulations, contributing in gaining the integrated system for quality management, health & safety and collaborative business relationship after the external audits conducted by auditors of QS ZÜRICH AG.

On this occasion, Dr. Khalifa Musabeh Al Tunaiji, Chariman of the Sharjah Housing Programme, Government of Sharjah, UAE, extended his thanks to Audit team lead by QS Zurich, Regional Director – Dr. Sameer Kumar.

Dr. Khalifa Musabeh Al Tunaiji expressed his happiness with the Department’s success, stressing that this achievement reflects the Department’s efforts to improve the organisational and administrative performance of its works, in line with the goals of the Sharjah Housing Programme, Government of Sharjah, UAE. He has further confirmed that obtaining ISO specifications enhances the culture of innovation, creativity, quality of services, and performance standards.

Ms. Eman Mohammed Alhammadi, Director of Quality and Organizational Excellence, indicated that the application of the new Integrated management system as per ISO 45001, ISO 44001 & ISO 9001 enhanced the Department’s ability to adhere to the principles of International standards and excellence.

 

The standard ISO 50003:2021 for accredited certification of the ISO 50001:2018, relevant for certification bodies changed. Main changes are:

• the definitions have been updated to include the audit time, the duration of the audit and terms related to multi-site audits;
• the phrase “maintained documented information” has been used to represent procedures, work instructions or other forms of documents that provide the who, what, when, how or why information;
• the phrase “retained documented information” or “record of audit evidence” has been used to represent records that demonstrate or provide evidence of the execution of a requirement;
• the structure has been updated to align with ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015;
• the phrase “man-days” has been changed to “audit days”;
• for audit day calculations, the number of energy types have been changed to those that comprise at least 80 % of total consumption;
• the weighted values for complexity have been modified;
• the sampling requirements for multi-site EnMS have been updated;
• the use of IAF MD documents as they relate to Annexes A and B has been clarified;
• the information on EnMS effective personnel has been clarified in A.2;
• Tables A.3 and A.4 have been modified to refer to audit time rather than the duration of the audit;
• the technical areas have been removed and requirements for technical competency added.

QS ZÜRICH AG implemented the changes and will work accordingly.
You as certified company according to ISO 50001:2018 must not change anything now. If our certification contract is affected, we will contact you.

 

Ms. Amina Ahmed Mohammed, CEO from EIAC/UAE hands over the award of the accreditation to
Mrs. Shikha Kumar on right (our contact unit in UAE).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Sameer Kumar, Director of QSZ Certification Services in UAE participated
in the project Net Zero by ISO from UAE.
UAE 11 2022
More information https://www.iso.org/netzero

 

on the recertification of its integrated management system in August 2022.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Certificate presentation at Aquametro Oil & Marine  in Therwil.

 

 

ISO 3834 standard family was published in April 2021.
All 5 standards are affected by the new edition:
ISO 3834-1, ISO 3834-2, ISO 3834-3, ISO 3834-4 and ISO 3834-5.
The standard family ISO 3834 was revised and new issued in 2021. The structure of the family as the standards are not changed; it keeps a technical oriented standardisation which needs to be read in combination with ISO 9001:2015 and is still a very good way and opportunity to organise the welding specific tasks to gain good quality and safety products.
It is the opportunity for you to organise your welding processes, achieve high quality and make safe products. With certification, you also retain the benefit of easily demonstrating your competence and technical capabilities to interested parties.

The revision of the standards was essentially editorial. The content of the chapter “calibration and validation of measuring, monitoring and testing devices” was expanded to be more precise. References to other standards have been updated. Laser-arc hybrid welding was included.
Parallel to the standard update, the conditions for certification were revised by the
European Accreditation (EA) and published in January 2022. This includes changes that affect the certification process itself – i.e.us as the certification body. This has an impact on the process and the information to be documented on our side. If you are directly affected by this, we will contact you directly.

Transitional periods/procedure:

The following deadlines apply to the validity of the certificates:

• Certificates issued before the publication of the standard remain valid for 3 years.
• On March 31, 2024, all certificates according to ISO 3834:2005 will lose their validity.

A conversion (migration of the certification) to the current version can take place during each audit.
We kindly ask you to procure the new standard(s), identify and close possible gaps in your management system. Please inform us in good time before the audit, so that the migration can be included in the planning.

 

Lukas Beljean, CEO of QS ZURICH AG and Dr. Sameer Kumar (on the right), our contact unit in Dubai, met in Switzerland for a lively exchange.

City of Sharjah, is a city on the Persian Gulf and part of the United Arab Emirates.
The Department of Municipalities Affairs, Agriculture & livestock (DMAADL) celebrated its success in obtaining the international accreditation for the ISO certificate in Quality Management ISO 9001:2015 and Innovation Management ISO 560002:2019, accomplishing a new achievement added to the Department’s record of achievements during the last period and enhancing the role of the Department in society.
The Department was able to obtain these certificates after fulfilling all requirements and regulations, contributing in gaining the integrated system for quality management and innovation after the outside audits of QS ZÜRICH AG.

On this occasion, Dr. Khalifa Musabeh Al Tunaiji, Head of the Department of Municipalities Affairs, Agriculture and Livestock, expressed his happiness with the Department’s success, stressing that this achievement reflects the Department’s efforts to improve the organisational and administrative performance of its works, in line with the goals of the Department of Municipalities Affairs, Agriculture & livestock. He has further confirmed that obtaining ISO specifications enhances the culture of innovation, creativity, quality of services, and performance standards.
For his part, Omar Al Shaiba, Director of the Strategy and Institutional Excellence Office in the Department, indicated that the application of the innovation system management specification enhances the Department’s ability to adhere to the principles of innovation.

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