SEMINAR ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN ENTERPRISES WAS HELD IN ALMATY
On March 19, 2019, RSE “Kazakhstan Institute of Standardization and Certification” held a free seminar on the implementation of management systems in enterprises in Almaty.
Zainulla Manenov, Director of the Branch of the Institute for the city of Almaty, and Sauybek Kapaev, Head of the Department of the Committee for Technical Regulation and Metrology gave a welcoming speech to the participants.
The seminar was held for all stakeholders - managers and specialists of enterprises and organizations of Almaty, including representatives of state bodies, national companies, specialists of manufacturing enterprises, conformity assessment bodies, testing, calibration laboratories, and technical committees for standardization, associations, and universities, and 100 people were trained.
The seminar was attended by a foreign lecturer - Leonid Dvorkin, General Regional Director of AFNOR, Ph.D., ICA chief auditor, expert auditor AFNOR Certification (France), AFNOR UK (England), GUTCert (Germany), GOST R (Russia).
The training program covered the latest new versions of international standards in the field of management systems:
- ISO 9004 «Quality Management. Quality of organization. Recommendations for achieving sustainable success»;
- ISO 50001 «Energy Management Systems. Requirements and guidelines for use».
At the beginning of the presentation the lecturer announced that the new version of ISO 9004:2018 was a complementary compatible group with ISO 9001 and also it was part of the ISO 9000 quality management standard series.
If ISO 9001 is a requirement for the initial creation of QMS in organizations, then ISO 9004 is aimed at the further development of the implemented system.
- ISO 9004: 2018 focuses on achieving leadership confidence in the success of an organization by meeting the needs and expectations of interested parties.
Also, the standard in its new version will provide guidance on the systematic and continuous improvement of all processes of the organization. Famous tool for self-assessment of the maturity of QMS organization is further improved in the updated ISO 9004. “It will help to more effectively identify areas in which improvements can be maximally productive for the user of the improvement standard” - L. Dvorkin emphasized.
He further talked about the launch of the new international standard for energy management - ISO 50001, which set requirements for types of energy consumers and energy consumption, including measurements, documentation and reporting, design and practice of procurement of equipment, systems, processes and involvement of personnel related to energy performance.
The lecturer noted that the standard was applicable to all types of organizations, regardless of their size and industry, and the ISO 50001 standard had a high degree of compatibility with generally accepted standards such as ISO 9001 (Quality Management Systems), ISO/IEC 27001 (Information Security), ISO 14001 (Environmental Management), ISO 31000:2009 (Risk Management), etc.
Leonid Dvorkin also explained in detail the contents of the ISO 50001 standard, spoke about the procedure and the advantage of its implementation in the organization.
At the end of the seminar, the participants asked interesting questions regarding the quality management of the organization, implementation, and the use of renewable energy, the importance of a new ISO 50001 standard, and also the possibility of certification of the management system according to ISO 50001, to which the lecturer gave objective and comprehensive answers.
