All ISO standards are reviewed every five years to establish if a revision is required to keep it current and relevant for the marketplace. The future ISO 9001:2015 will respond to the latest trends and be
compatible with other management systems such as ISO 14001.
ISO 9001 is currently at the Final Draft International Stage (FDIS), the fifth stage of a six stage process, whereby the ISO subcommittee revising the standard will now go through all the comments received
during the DIS vote in order to produce a final draft which will then be put forward to all ISO members for voting.
Once all comments have been considered a final draft will be produced and put forward to ISO members for voting.
ISO 9001:2015 is due to be published by the end of 2015.
The new version will follow a new, higher level structure to make it easier to use in conjunction with other management system standards, with increased importance given to risk.
Organisations are granted a three-year transition period after the revision has been published to migrate their quality management system to the new edition of the standard.
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