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7/27/2019 Faq About Iso
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Quiz about ISO
Reference : www.iso.org
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2. Why is it not called
IOFS?!
ISO is derived from the Greek word :
ISOS; meaning EQUAL.
Whatever country, whatever languagethe short form of the organization’s
name is always ISO.
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3. When was ISO
established?
23rd February, 1947.
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4. Where is ISO’s office
located?
Geneva, Switzerland.
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5. Who are the members of
ISO?
National Standards Institutes / Bodies.
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6. How many members does
ISO have, currently?
163.
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7. What are the categories
of ISO members?
Member body.
Correspondent members.
Subscriber members.
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8. How many members are
allowed from each country?
One per country.
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9. Which of the members
have voting rights?
The member bodies-the full time
members.
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10. How many votes does
each member body have?
One! (democratic; each member
country has one vote, irrespective of
region, size, et. al..).
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11. Examples of ISO
standards?
Signs and Symbols.
ISBN – International Standard Book
Number. Freight containers.
Credit card specification.
Nuts and bolts!
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12. How many standards have
been developed by ISO, since
1947? 18,000 + ….
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13. When did ISO start
developing management
system standards? 1980-formation of TC 176, for
developing Quality System standards.
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14. When were the Quality
System standards first issued?
1987.
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15. What were these Quality
System standards called?
ISO 9000 series!
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16. Why the number 9000
was chosen?
Next available round number, at that
time! For easy recall, since this was
expected to be a widely usedstandard.
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17. Examples of other
management system standards
published by ISO? Environmental Management : ISO
14000 series; ISO 14001:1996, 2004.
ISO 22000 : FSMS : Food SafetyManagement System.
ISO 27001 : ISMS : Information
Security Management System. ….
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18. How many standards are
there in the ISO 9000 series?
Three.
Namely : ISO 9001:2008, ISO 9000:2005
and ISO 9004:2009.
Alongwith other related standards, they
comprise the ISO 9000 family of standards
(listed in the Bibliography as the end of the
ISO 9001:2008 standard). e.g. ISO 19011:2002, Guidelines for
auditing QMS and / or EMS.
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19. After how many years every
ISO standard is subject to a
review? Five.
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20. Does ISO itself issue the
ISO 9001 certificates?
No!
ISO is a voluntary, NGO which publishesstandards.
Third-party certification auditing bodiesoperate, across the globe, under variousnational accreditation schemes; there is anInternational Accreditation forum-which is abody comprising such national accreditation
councils. ISO participates in ISO, through its CASCO-
Committee on Conformity Assessment.