{"id":20019,"date":"2020-01-06T09:55:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T14:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/?p=20019"},"modified":"2020-01-06T09:55:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T14:55:27","slug":"annex-l-is-toxic-to-industry-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/annex-l-is-toxic-to-industry-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Annex L is Toxic to Industry &#8211; Here&#8217;s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years I&#8217;ve written at length about Annex L (and its predecessor, Annex SL), and why it&#8217;s such a disaster for ISO standards and the development committees that slavishly support it. I thought I&#8217;d summarize my points, however, to make it easier to understand.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is important, because ISO management system standards affect millions of companies worldwide, and have follow-on impacts in endless industries that assume such standards are the product of industry subject matter experts and international consensus. Annex L disproves both these key points.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that ISO TMB is taking away the only job they have and usurping standards-writing responsibilities from them, Annex L&#8217;s sycophantic supporters will decry this as &#8220;fake news.&#8221; To preempt this knee-jerk (and wholly false) claim, I&#8217;m providing the following arguments with justified reasons or evidence.<\/p>\n<p>So without further delay, here are the key points on why Annex L is so toxic:<\/p>\n<p>[ultimatetables 6 \/]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A summary of the concerns regarding ISO&#8217;s mandatory &#8220;Annex L&#8221; text for standards.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1029,270,14,244,42,200],"class_list":["post-20019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-annex-l","tag-annex-sl","tag-iso-9001","tag-iso-tmb","tag-tc-176","tag-tmb","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20019"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20026,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20019\/revisions\/20026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}