The international standard for quality management systems, known as ISO 9001, is currently being revised and is scheduled for release in late 2015. Are you ready for the changes? How do the changes affect you?

NQA, a globally recognized certification body, is preparing, and we’re sharing with you by presenting a series of roadshows across the United States in 2015.

The changes to the content of the current 2008 version are considered to be significant. The first—and only—time such a significant change was made to the bestseller of ISO’s standards, was in 2000, and little planning and preparation guidance was made available in the months leading up to the release. In fact, no one had experienced implementing such a significant change to ISO 9001 since its first publication in 1987. Up till then changes had been “evolutionary” in nature, and even variations in the predecessors to ISO 9001—a variety of national and military procurement standards such as MIL-Q-9858A—were limited because each document stated, in fundamental terms, the same things.

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