Industry-specific standards (aerospace, automotive, telecom, medical devices)
Several industries have developed industry-specific standards, which address their unique requirements while using ISO 9001 as a baseline for additions.
These industry-specific standards typically require more prescribed methods, forms, or processes than ISO 9001; in return for loss of flexibility, organizations will be more standardized, meet stricter or additional requirements, but also qualify for orders from industry-specific OEMs and higher level suppliers.
AS 91X0 – Aerospace standards, for suppliers, and stockists (distributors)
ISO/TS 16949 – Automotive requirements for quality
TL 9000 – Telecom requirements for quality
ISO 13485 – for medical devices
How do these standards integrate?
For ISO 9001 – ISO 9001 is used, in its entirety, as a basis for the standards. When implementing any of these standards, ISO 9001 requirements will be met as part of the implementation, so no additional effort is required to conform with ISO 9001.
ISO 14001 – ISO 14001 is no more difficult to integrate with these standards than integrating with ISO 9001; however, there is no/limited additional benefit to integrating ISO 14001 with an industry standard vs. ISO 9001.
OHSAS 18001 – Since these industry-specific standards may also consider risk as part of their assessment, it may be easier to implement OHSAS with these standards; the concept of risk assessment and risk management are resident in the organization and can easily be extended to the risk elements of OHSAS 18001.
What are your thoughts on integration with these industry-specific standards? Do you agree that these standards are better aligned with OHSAS? Have you integrated ISO 14001 or OHSAS 18001 with an industry-specific standard?
