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"I will like to know how to set up a project applying the said standard

The starting point is to purchase the standard from ISO or your national Standards publishing organisation. Then to assist with implementation and applying for accreditation, look to reputable assistance such as the Advisera ISO 17025 Academy. The home page is at https://advisera.com/17025academy/

Have a look at the free resources at https://advisera.com/17025academy/free-downloads/ and download the Diagram of ISO 17025 Implementation Process  as well as the Project Plan for ISO/IEC 17025 implementation shown on that page.

Thereafter look at the benefits of using the toolkit, where various options are offered at https://advisera.com/17025academy/comparison/ and the available previews of the entire kit at https://advisera.com/17025academy/iso-17025-documentation-toolkit/

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and the effects of ISO 17025 on projects

The following articles will give you some information on the importance of the ISO 17025 standard and it how can help your company and clients.

What is ISO 17025? at https://advisera.com/17025academy/what-is-iso-17025/
Six key benefits of ISO 17025 implementation at https://advisera.com/17025academy/blog/2019/10/18/six-key-benefits-of-iso-17025-implementation/
More and more academic laboratories and companies running various development projects which include testing, are seeing the benefits of ISO 17025 accreditation.

Thirdly, you asked

and how I can obtain a certification for the same ISO. To show competence on potential employers."

Laboratories achieve accreditation to ISO 17025, not certification. It is also not possible for a person to be certified to ISO 17025. What is possible is to show the technical competency and operational competency of personnel who work effectively within an ISO 17025 managed laboratory system. This is done through objective evidence during training and monitoring.

If you are not working in an ISO 17025 accredited laboratory, you could develop your knowledge by working through the standard and toolkit, and attending training on the system and implementation requirements of ISO 17025.  Thereafter you can develop your skills and competency by applying the knowledge and contributing to the success of a laboratory in implementing and/or maintaining accreditation. Internal auditing, risk assessments; as well as method validation and measurement uncertainty are examples of areas where you can attend courses and obtain training certificates. Once applied in the laboratory, you can demonstrate your competency and obtain a competency declaration from management. Furthermore if you are responsible for the validity of results, as a technical signatory for your laboratory, you will also be assessed by the accreditation body. Your name may then appear on the laboratory’s accreditation certificates.

Besides the Advisera ISO 17025 toolkit at https://advisera.com/17025academy/iso-17025-documentation-toolkit/, you may also be interested in the ISO 17025 Academy webinars at https://advisera.com/17025academy/webinars/

ISO 9001 How to make it interesting?

Working with organizations I try to do that by showing top management the pain from the present: Defects, costs, complaints, delays, lost customers, loss, and their consequences for the organization. It is what can push them to change.

Other alternative is to try to pull them to change by showing how a quality management system can help in improving performance.

For both situations I invest a lot in aligning the quality management system with the strategic orientation.

You can find more information below:

• Six Key Benefits of ISO 9001 Implementation - https://advisera.com/9001academy/knowledgebase/six-key-benefits-of-iso-9001-implementation/
• Enroll for free course - ISO 9001:2015 Foundations Course - https://advisera.com/training/iso-9001-foundations-course/
• Book - Discover ISO 9001:2015 Through Practical Examples - https://advisera.com/books/discover-iso-9001-2015-through-practical-examples/

ISO 9001 Consultant

There are no formal qualifications needed to become consultant or trainer, at least not in most countries. This basically means anyone can become a consultant or trainer, with no qualifications whatsoever.

Your challenge is to be able to win customers. Winning customers mean conveying trust through evidencing experience and qualifications obtained. So, they are not mandatory, but they are important to evidence competence.

You can find more information below:

• How to choose the most appropriate training - https://advisera.com/training/compare/
• How to become an ISO 9001 consultant - https://advisera.com/9001academy/blog/2016/11/15/how-to-become-an-iso-9001-consultant/
• How to choose an ISO 9001 consultant - https://advisera.com/9001academy/blog/2019/11/12/iso-9001-consultant-how-to-hire-the-right-one/
• How to sell your ISO 9001 consulting services - https://advisera.com/9001academy/blog/2017/06/20/how-to-sell-your-iso-9001-consulting-services/
• Free webinar on demand – How to sell ISO consulting services - https://advisera.com/9001academy/webinar/how-to-sell-iso-consulting-services-free-webinar-on-demand/
• Enroll for free course - ISO 9001:2015 Lead Implementer Course - https://advisera.com/training/iso-9001-lead-implementer-course/
• Book - Discover ISO 9001:2015 Through Practical Examples - https://advisera.com/books/discover-iso-9001-2015-through-practical-examples/
   

ISO 14001 Aspect and Impact analysis process

If your focus is the environmental assessment of a corporate office, I recommend that you consider two levels:

• The office level; and
• The office decisions that influence other units 

About a) consider the typical office aspects like energy and water consumption, waste generation.

About b) consider for example decisions about business travel, supplier and investment selection, with an environmental component like CO2 emissions.

Please check this information below with more detailed answers:

• Environmental aspect identification and classification - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2019/08/27/key-iso-14001-benefits-to-customers/nowledgebase/environmental-aspect-identification-and-classification/
• Catalogue of environmental aspects - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2019/08/27/key-iso-14001-benefits-to-customers/nowledgebase/catalogue-of-environmental-aspects/
• Free webinar - ISO 14001: Identification and evaluation of environmental aspects - https://advisera.com/14001academy/webinar/iso-14001-identification-and-evaluation-of-environmental-aspects-free-webinar-on-demand/
• ISO 14001 document template: Procedure for Identification and Evaluation of Environmental Aspects and Risks - https://advisera.com/14001academy/documentation/procedure-for-identification-and-evaluation-of-environmental-aspects/
• Enroll for free in this course – ISO 14001:2015 Lead Auditor Course - https://advisera.com/training/iso-14001-lead-auditor-course/
• Book – The ISO 14001:2015 Companion - https://advisera.com/books/the-iso-14001-2015-companion/

Considering ISO 28000 for outsourcing hosting of their software products

ISO 27001 does not require any specific standard to be followed so unless your client has a legal requirement (e.g., law, regulation or contract) demanding the implementation of ISO 28000 (Specification for security management systems for the supply chain), or it considers a good practice worthy to be implemented, there is no need to implement ISO 28000 to fulfill ISO 27001 requirements.

For further information, see:

• How to identify ISMS requirements of interested parties in ISO 27001 https://advisera.com/27001academy/blog/2017/02/06/how-to-identify-isms-requirements-of-interested-parties-in-iso-27001/

Root causes

Finding root cause(s) it is not a theoretical exercise. One must look and investigate the particular situation of each organization. I may say that the root cause is lack of training in ISO 9001:2015

You can find more information below:

• How to use root cause analysis to support corrective actions in your QMS - https://advisera.com/9001academy/blog/2016/03/01/how-to-use-root-cause-analysis-to-support-corrective-actions-in-your-qms/
• Free online training ISO 9001:2015 Foundations Course - https://advisera.com/training/iso-9001-foundations-course/
• Book - Managing ISO Documentation: A Plain English Guide - https://advisera.com/books/managing-iso-documentation-plain-english-guide/

Responsibility of scheduling Surveillance audits

The certification body contacts the certified organization with a proposal for the date of the surveillance audit.

You can find more information below:

• What is an ISO 9001 surveillance audit? - https://advisera.com/9001academy/blog/2016/10/18/what-is-an-iso-9001-surveillance-audit/
• Surveillance visits vs. certification audits - https://advisera.com/27001academy/knowledgebase/surveillance-visits-vs-certification-audits/
• ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor Training Course - https://advisera.com/training/iso-9001-lead-auditor-course/
• Discover ISO 9001:2015 Through Practical Examples - https://advisera.com/books/discover-iso-9001-2015-through-practical-examples/

Money resource

In my point of view money is all over clause 7.1 of ISO 9001:2015. What does a management system do with money?

• Hires people and provide them training and experience to be competent.
• Buys and maintains the needed infrastructure.
• Provides and maintains the right environment for the operation of processes.
• Provides and maintains the monitoring and measuring resources needed.

You can find more information below:

• Understanding Resource Management in ISO 9001 - https://advisera.com/9001academy/blog/2014/02/11/understanding-resource-management-iso-9001/
• ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor Training Course - https://advisera.com/training/iso-9001-lead-auditor-course/
• Discover ISO 9001:2015 Through Practical Examples - https://advisera.com/books/discover-iso-9001-2015-through-practical-examples/

ISO 14001 Clause 6.1.1 & 6.1.2

As per ISO 14001:2015, Clause 6,1.1. and 6.1.2, is it mandatory to carry out an environmental risk assessment and environmental aspects and impacts assessments as well as maintain its individual register required?

Answer:

Yes, it is mandatory to carry out an environmental risk assessment and environmental aspects and impacts assessments.

About the individual register, an organization needs to maintain one for all environmental aspects and impacts. About the risks and opportunities what is mandatory to maintain is register of those deemed to relevant enough to be addressed. Please check this article - List of mandatory documents required by ISO 14001:2015 - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2019/08/27/key-iso-14001-benefits-to-customers/nowledgebase/list-of-mandatory-documents-required-by-iso-140012015/

differentiate environmental risk and environmental impacts

Answer:

Determining environmental aspects is determining how an organization interacts with the environment. For example:

Determining risks and opportunities of an organization, according to ISO 14001:2015, is based on its environmental aspects, compliance obligations, and context and interested parties.

For example, concerning environmental aspects we can have:

Since organizations have to consider the lifecycle of its products and services, do not forget to consider risks and opportunities around your products and services during use or final disposal.

For example, concerning compliance obligations, and context and interested parties we can have for example, the above organization can realize that neighbors (an interested party) are pressuring local authorities to not allow its expansion (an external issue) due to non-compliance with wastewater discharging legislation (compliance obligations) translated into river pollution.+

Please check risk definition (3.2.10) on ISO 14001:2015 (effect of uncertainty). With environmental aspects and impacts we are considering normal, expected situations, like startup and closing down operations, but also abnormal and emergency situations. Whenever there is uncertainty there is risk or opportunities, there is a potential deviation from the expected.

About determining risks based on environmental aspects and compliance obligations I see that different organizations follow different approaches:

1. There are organizations that determine their environmental aspects and use a risk and opportunities assessment to determine its significant environmental aspects. (Please see the end of the second paragraph of Annex A.6.1.1 of ISO 14001:2015)

2. There are organizations that determine their environmental aspects evaluate them and determine the significant ones and use a risk and opportunities assessment to determine which ones need an action plan, and which ones need only to be monitored.

3. There are organizations that only apply the risk-based approach to the context part. In a certain way they are following the same approach as 1 without explicitly mentioning it.

Please check this information below with more detailed answers:

• Environmental aspect identification and classification - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2019/08/27/key-iso-14001-benefits-to-customers/nowledgebase/environmental-aspect-identification-and-classification/
• Catalogue of environmental aspects - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2019/08/27/key-iso-14001-benefits-to-customers/nowledgebase/catalogue-of-environmental-aspects/
• ISO 14001 risks and opportunities vs. environmental aspects - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2016/03/21/how-does-product-life-cycle-influence-environmental-aspects-according-to-iso-140012015/
• Risks and opportunities in ISO 14001:2015 – What they are and why they are important - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2016/03/07/risks-and-opportunities-in-iso-140012015-what-they-are-and-why-they-are-important/
• Free webinar - ISO 14001: Identification and evaluation of environmental aspects - https://advisera.com/14001academy/webinar/iso-14001-identification-and-evaluation-of-environmental-aspects-free-webinar-on-demand/
• ISO 14001 document template: Procedure for Identification and Evaluation of Environmental Aspects and Risks - https://advisera.com/14001academy/documentation/procedure-for-identification-and-evaluation-of-environmental-aspects/
• Enroll for free in this course – ISO 14001:2015 Lead Auditor Course - https://advisera.com/training/iso-14001-lead-auditor-course/
• Book – The ISO 14001:2015 Companion - https://advisera.com/books/the-iso-14001-2015-companion/
   

Certification ISO au niveau d'un point de vente assurance

Je ne sais pas si j'ai bien compris votre question. Pour le contexte, je considérerais deux niveaux: local et dans le cadre d'une organisation plus large. Pour le contexte interne, je considérerais le type de sujets qui continuent d'apparaître dans les réunions sur la performance, qui continuent d'apparaître dans les plaintes, les rapports et les audits.

Pour le contexte externe, j'utiliserais la méthodologie PESTLE (politique, économie, social, technologique, législation, environnement) pour déterminer les topiques pertinents.

Vous pouvez trouver plus d'informations ci-dessous :

• How to identify the context of the organization in ISO 9001:2015 - https://advisera.com/9001academy/knowledgebase/how-to-identify-the-context-of-the-organization-in-iso-90012015/
• Free webinar on demand - ISO 9001:2015 clause 4 - Context of the organization, interested parties, and scope - https://advisera.com/9001academy/webinar/iso-90012015-clause-4-context-of-the-organization-interested-parties-and-scope-free-webinar-on-demand/
• Free online training ISO 9001:2015 Foundations Course – https://advisera.com/training/iso-9001-foundations-course/
• Book – Discover ISO 9001:2015 Through Practical Examples – https://advisera.com/books/discover-iso-9001-2015-through-practical-examples/