3. 2015 DIS v. 2008 Comparison
ISO/DIS 9001:2015 ISO 9001:2008
7.1 Resources
7.1.1 General
7.1.2 People
Title removed
7.2 Competence
7.3 Awareness
6 Resource management
6.1 Provision of resources
6.2 Human resources
6.2.1 General
6.2.2 Competence, training and
awareness
Significant Differences
• Resources must consider capabilities of, and constraints on, existing internal
resources and what needs to be obtained from external providers.
• Changed to appropriate education, training or experience, and removed skills
Added:
• 7.1.5 Monitoring and measuring of resources (includes calibration)
• 7.1.6 Organizational knowledge (lessons learned, undocumented knowledge)
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ISO/DIS 9001:2015 ISO 9001:2008
7.1.3 Infrastructure
7.1.4 Environment for the operation of
processes
6.3 Infrastructure
6.4 Work environment
Significant Differences
• Changed ‘work environment’ from what is necessary to achieve product
requirements to ‘environment’ - what is necessary for the operation of the
processes
5. ISO/DIS 9001:2015 vs.
ISO 9001:2008
ISO/DIS 9001:2015 ISO 9001:2008
7.1.5 Monitoring and measuring
resources
7.6 Control of monitoring and
measuring equipment
Significant Differences
• ‘Equipment’ has been changed to ‘Resources’ to allow for other types of
monitoring and measuring that do not involve equipment (i.e., visual
monitoring).
• Measuring instruments must be calibrated when measurement traceability is
required by a statutory or regulatory requirement, customers, relevant
interested party expectation, or considered by the organization to be
essential to providing valid measuring results
6. 2015 DIS v. 2008 Comparison
ISO/DIS 9001:2015 ISO 9001:2008
7.4 Communication 5.5.3 Internal communication
Significant Differences
• Added determining requirements for internal as well as external
communications: what, when, how and with whom
7. 2015 DIS v. 2008 Comparison
ISO/DIS 9001:2015 ISO 9001:2008
7.5 Documented Information
7.5.1 General
7.5.2 Creating and updating
7.5.3 Control of documented
information
4.2 Documentation requirements
4.2.1 General
4.2.3 Control of Documents
4.2.4 Control of Records
Significant Differences
• Combined documents and records as one term “documented information”
• Not as prescriptive as to identifying “how” records are stored but retention
length still must be determined
section 7.4 Support actually has very few new requirements, but a more clearly defined intent of what was always intended with ISO 9001:2008
7.3 Awareness has been made its own clause for extra focus. It combines specific requirements that personnel have to be aware of from the following ISO 9001:2008 clauses:
5.3d – Quality Policy (communicated and understood) - now ISO/DIS 2015 section 7.3a
6.2.2d – aware of relevance and importance of their activities and how they contribute to achievement of quality objectives - now ISO/DIS 2015 section 7.3b
5.5.3 – communication regarding the effectiveness of the quality management system – now ISO/DIS 2015 section 7.3c (but this now focuses more on contribution and benefits of improved performance)
ISO/DIS 2015 section 7.3d adds in the implications of NOT conforming to quality management system requirements, which is somewhat comparable to ISO 9001:2008 section 8.2.3 “where planned results are not achieved, correction and corrective action shall be taken as appropriate”.
ISO/DIS 9001:2015 7.1.6 Organizational knowledge
This is a new requirement for ensuring that organizations have or obtain necessary knowledge to operate their processes to achieve conformity of products and services. It also requires organizations to obtain necessary knowledge to address changing needs and trends. Note 2 provides considerations on where to obtain knowledge required (i.e. internal resources – lessons learned from project successes and failures, as well as capturing knowledge and experience from experts in the organization; external resources – standards, academia, conferences, customers or providers). This knowledge should be communicated as necessary within the organization and maintained.
ISO/DIS 9001:2015 7.1.3 Infrastructure has the same intent and meaning as ISO 9001:2008 section 6.3 Infrastructure.
ISO/DIS 9001:2015 7.1.4 Environment
This section updates ISO 9001:2008 section 6.4. The most significant change is the title “work environment” was changed to “environment” and now can include physical, social, psychological, environmental and other factors (such as temperature, humidity, ergonomics and cleanliness). This is an expansion applicable to the organizations processes, not just product requirements as was in the 2008 version.
Documented Information is a new term introduced in the ISO/DIS. The specific references to a documented quality manual, documented procedures and records have been removed and replaced with ‘documented information’. This is information the organization is required to keep, control and maintain, but formats and storage methods are not prescribed in the DIS, as it is left up to the organization to do what best fits their operation of their business. Documented information can refer to the quality management system, information created in order for the organization to operate (documentation), or evidence of results (records).