ISO (INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION)
ISO 9001
The international organization for standardization is a non government word wide association that sets industrial and commercial standards. ISO was found in 1947 and its head office is in Geneva (Switzerland). It is the largest standard development organization in whole world today. ISA (international federation of national standardization union) & UNSCC (United Nations standard co-coordinating committee) later on representative from many countries come together to form new organization which is named as “ISO”. ISO has its print more than total 17500 international standards. ISO contains total of 112 members of different countries.
Type of membership
1. Member BodiesNational standard bodies that represents each country and only members in ISO with voting privilege.
2. Correspondent MembersCountries not having standard bodies participate in development & distribution of standard but are aware of them are known as correspondent members.
2. Correspondent MembersCountries not having standard bodies participate in development & distribution of standard but are aware of them are known as correspondent members.
3. Subscribed MembersCountries with small or limited economies they pay much lesser member fees than others members, but are privy to development of standards.
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