Requirements of ISO 9001 should be full filled before Certification. ISO 9001 is also known as quality Management System Certificate. This standard is very popular and worldwide more than 1.5 million companies have adopted ISO 9001 Certificate. New and small business owners do not know what are the requirements for ISO 9001 . So, this blog post will help them to know what are the minimum documentation requirements for ISO 9001:2015 Certification:

  • Scope of the Quality Management System (clause 4.3)
  • Quality policy (clause 5.2.2)
  • Quality objectives and planning how that will be achieved (clause 6.2)
  • Criteria for selection and evaluation of suppliers (clause 8.4.1)

Above mentioned documents are basic and mandatory for ISO 9001:2015 standard certification.  Before performing iso CB audit those documents should be created and  implemented in your organization .

That Documentation  requirements can be prepared by company itself or an ISO consultant can be hired to prepare those documents.

In previous version of ISO 9001 standard was needed a lot of documentation. In this 9001 2015 version no need a huge documents. So, it is easier to obtain ISO 9001 Certificate now.

Record are also necessary and mandatory for iso 9001 2015 certification. Please check below for mandatory records for ISO 9001:2015 Certification:

Monitoring and measuring equipment calibration records (clause 7.1.5.1)
Records of training, skills, experience and qualifications (clause 7.2)
Product/service requirements review records (clause 8.2.3.2)
Record about design and development outputs review (clause 8.3.2)
Records about design and development inputs (clause 8.3.3)
Records of design and development controls (clause 8.3.4)
Records of design and development outputs (clause 8.3.5)
Design and development changes records (clause 8.3.6)
Characteristics of product to be produced and service to be provided (clause 8.5.1)
Records about customer property (clause 8.5.3)
Production/service provision change control records (clause 8.5.6)
Record of conformity of product/service with acceptance criteria (clause 8.6)
Record of nonconforming outputs (clause 8.7.2)
Monitoring and measurement results (clause 9.1.1)
Internal audit program (clause 9.2)
Results of internal audits (clause 9.2)
Results of the management review (clause 9.3)
Results of corrective actions (clause 10.1)