Yet another entry from the “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” department. Now the CEO of the UKAS-accredited registrar British Assessment Bureau (BAB) is challenging critics of the ISO 9001 certification scheme to “stop talking” and start filing complaints against registrars.
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Chris Paris has launched his next international speaking tour entitled The Path Forward: The Amazing Future of ISO 9001. The result of 15 years of work to improve ISO 9001, the “Path Forward” presents the final 10-year plan to dramatically alter the ISO 9001 certification scheme, and standards development process, to benefit standards end users.
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In a presentation to the Independent Association of Accredited Registrars (IAAR), the VP of ANAB and President of the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) Randy Dougherty revealed a telling look at some critical details of the new ISO 17021-1 standard, as well as the sources of those proposed changes. The accreditation rules governing certification bodies (CBs) are undergoing significant revision by ISO/CASCO, and will replace the current rules under ISO 17021:2011.
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It’s early days yet, but it seems the venerable ISO 9001 registrar BSI may have issued a certification to the BP company that operated the doomed Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Worse yet, the audit is reported to have included physical auditing by at least one BSI auditor of the Deepwater Horizon rig itself, and the auditor raised concerns of the operation of the rig prior to the disaster.
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Every day the IATF doesn’t address the Takata airbag issue, name the registrar involved, and give a valid explanation as to how this happened on their watch, is another day that the ISO certification schemes descend further into disrepute. If Joe Bransky is willing to take credit for when things go right, he should step up and reveal — with honest clarity — what happened when things go horribly, horribly wrong.
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