Small businesses face many challenges today, including the increasing demand by larger companies for ISO compliance. Compliance is a challenging task for any organisation and can often be time consuming and costly, particularly for small businesses who are unlikely to have quality assurance experts on the payroll. However, it is still possible to achieve compliance without the need for expensive consultancy or training that takes you out of the office! Ray Tricker has already guided hundreds of businesses through the challenge and this, the 5th edition of his life-saving ISO guide, has been rewritten and refined following 5 years' field use of working with the standard.
The one area that an organisation (particularly a small business) always wants to know is 'how much is it going to cost to implement and operate a QMS compliant with ISO 9001: 2008 - and is it going to be worth the trouble?!' Due to popular demand, Edition 5 now includes a brand new chapter on the cost of implementing ISO 9001:2008.
This edition provides:
ISO 9001:2008
is the most widely followed quality management standard and the rewards can be great, opening up new business opportunities, as well as bringing real improvements to your processes and outputs.