31 October 2025: The End of the Transition to ISO/IEC 27001:2022
Certificates issued against ISO/IEC 27001:2013 are no longer valid after 31 October 2025. The deadline holds a lesson for every organisation that will soon face…
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The Draft of the Next ISO 9001: What It Suggests for Quality Managers
In 2025 the revision of ISO 9001 reached the draft international standard stage, the first version open to public comment. It gives the clearest view…
AQL Sampling in Product Inspection, Explained
What the Acceptance Quality Limit really means, how ISO 2859-1 sets sample sizes and accept/reject numbers, and how to use AQL in pre-shipment inspection.
Food Defence and Food Fraud Assessments: Beyond HACCP
How to assess threats of deliberate tampering and vulnerabilities to economic fraud, and put proportionate controls in place as GFSI schemes require.
Measuring Food Safety Culture: Beyond the Annual Survey
Food safety culture is now required by Codex, by GFSI-recognised schemes and by customers. The difficult part is measuring it in a way that…
First, Second and Third-Party Audits: What Is the Difference?
Internal audits, supplier audits and certification audits compared: who audits whom, against which criteria, and what each result means.
ISO 14001 Is Being Revised: What Environmental Managers Should Expect
A revised edition of ISO 14001 is in preparation, with a draft published for comment in 2025. The revision is described as limited in scope:…
Management Review That Drives Decisions, Not Slides
How to turn the management review into a short, decision-focused meeting that links the management system to strategy, resources and objectives.
ISO 45001 Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment in Practice
How to move from a paper risk register to a living assessment that involves workers, applies the hierarchy of controls and prevents injuries.
The ISO 9001 Revision in 2024: Where It Stands and How to Prepare
Work on the next edition of ISO 9001 continued through 2024 at committee stage. Publication is planned for 2026, and ISO 9001:2015 stays in force until…