AKMS Conducts ISO 9001:2008 Lecture

AMMAN --- December 16, 2008 --- The Arab Knowledge and Management Society (AKMS) conducted a lecture entitled ?ISO 9001:2008? on December 15, 2008 at the premises of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh College of Business (TAG-College).

Delivering the lecture was Mr. Khaled Abu-Osbeh, the executive director of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh and Co. International- Jeddah and AKMS representative in the ISO 9000 specification (ISO/TC 176/SC) Committee.
?The lecture was designed to familiarize participants with the new edition of ISO 9001 and its amendments,? Abu-Osbeh said.

?How to transfer from 2000 edition to 2008 for companies that have obtained the ISO certificate and how to establish quality management systems in the companies that have not obtained the certificate were our main objectives,? he added.

In his lecture, Mr. Abu-Osbeh, a member of the ?WG 18 Expert Committee? which emanated from ISO/TC 176/SC2 Committee, discussed the following topics; the motives for change to the specification, the need for proposed changes, the applicable approach in amending ISO 9001 series, the scope of amendments to the new specification, the timetable of the transition process and how to keep up-to-date with ISO 9001 specifications.

The lecture also focused on providing the opportunity to those interested in quality systems and ISO 9001 to learn about new standards and their amendments prior to issuing them just as their counterparts in developed countries do.

The 2008 edition of ISO 9001 is the fourth edition since the first edition was issued in 1987, as ISO laws and regulations require that standards be reviewed once every five years in order to determine whether they should be amended, improved or withdrawn.

The event targeted specific categories such as factories and production managers at industrial companies, operation managers at service companies, quality control and assurance managers, management representatives at companies that have obtained the certificate and all those interested in quality specifications in general and in ISO 9001 in particular.

AKMS has similar lectures scheduled for next year in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and Syria.