The latest in ISO's series of documents for supply chain security management systems provides the requirements for ensuring that the bodies which carry out certification of these systems perform their work competently and reliably.

The aim is to give confidence to private sector and governmental customers who require suppliers such as air, sea, road and rail transporters to implement security management systems and to have them independently audited and certified.
The new ISO publicly available specification ISO/PAS 28003:2006, Security management systems – Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of supply chain security management systems, is a companion document to ISO/PAS 28000:2005, Specification for security management systems for the supply chain.

ISO/PAS 28003:2006 :
* Provides harmonized guidance for the accreditation (official approval) of certification bodies as competent to perform certification to ISO/PAS 28000 (or to similar requirements); and
* Defines the rules applicable for the audit and certification of supply chain security management systems conforming to the ISO/PAS 28000 requirements (or similar requirements).

ISO/PAS 28003:200 costs 138 Swiss francs and is available from ISO national member institutes. It was prepared by ISO technical committee ISO/TC 8, Ships and marine technology, in collaboration with the ISO Committee on conformity assessment (ISO/CASCO).

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•Date: 27th October 2006• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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