Anyone know much about ISO

What do you mean by apply for it? Do you mean to work for them, or get your place of work accredited?
 
ISO is a network of 156 international standard bodies.

ISO 9001 is a generic name for a family of quality management standards.

This tells you everything you'd want to know about it, including what to do to get accredited.
 
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As most of the above comments, i think you have left a bit of information out. I'm due on an ISO20000 consultant course in the next few weeks, one of my staff has just completed his ISO27000 certified consultant course. We are looking at becoming ISO9001, 20000 & 27000 certified and have just awarded a contract to supplier to partner us in achieving this. It's going to be along hard road, but hopefully it will be worth it.
 
kefkef said:
Where do you work? What business area? What standards are you looking at attaining?
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That doesnt matter to ISO 9000. It is just a QMS (Quality Managment System) put in place to ensure continual improvement of a product (this could be a service/product etc)

Are you the owner or the guy put to the task of getting certified?

Maybe a few courses on the subject might help? I did one by the LRQA which was boring as hell but needed to do it.

KaHn
 
Me stoopid, me no read reply above about 9001.

As said by KaHn, see if you can find a reputable course with regards to this, also, buy the standard and see if you can wade your way through it. May be worth looking at getting a company in to do a few quotes/timescales for this. We were quoted £10k for one standard, £15k to 2 and £20k to attain 3 standards within 6 months.

/edit. The costs above are to get us to the stage where an auditor would be able to come in and spend 3-5 days auditing us and then if we reach the level required we would become certified/accreditied. The cost of the external independant audit is roughly 5k on top of the figures i've said above.

I'm in IT
 
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Most companies pay for Consultants to set procedures in place to ISO level (Llyod's Register are one that spring to mind) Then they will charge through the teeth for it.

I think its a big con as you can actually get your ISO 9000 accreditation from internet sites, but they aren't with an accreditation body.

I could send you my course notes if you wanted (was a 1 day course on the subject)

KaHn
 
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