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How to certify against a standard non-certifiable?

To avoid many misunderstandings with regard to using the ISO 26000 certification, I think the main problem that exists is the ignorance of the issue of standards and standardization, and while this is not understood, misinterpreted and continue using the ISO 26000. So I would like to deepen on the subject to clarify the concepts.

The former would include the definition of a standard approved by the International Organization for Standardization ISO 2-2004 in Guide "Standardization and Related Activities. General vocabulary " A standard is a" document established by consensus and approved by a recognized body that provides, for common and repeated rules, guidelines or characteristics for activities and their results, aimed at achieving the optimal level of order in a given context "is understood as a consensus according to the same guide as to the sane general characterized by, the absence of sustained opposition to substantial aspects of an important group of concerned interests, a process that involves and takes into account the views of all stakeholders and reconcile any conflicting arguments. Consensus need not imply unanimity.

Second is important to note that there are different levels of normalization according to its application, as follows: International Standards regional standards, national standards, rules of association and business rules.

Within Standards are Standards ISO (International Organization for Standardization), the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission), the ITU (International Telecommunication Union), among which those organizations exist recognition agreements and the Standards of Codex Alimentarius.

Within Regional Standards are the COPANT (Pan American Standards Commission), to America, CEN (European Committee for Standardization). CENELEC (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization) and ETSI (European Institute for Telecommunication Standardization Sector) in the European area, and ARSO (African Organisation for Standardisation) in Africa among others. Within this area have established rules on social responsibility being the best known of EMAS. (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme)

National Standards are those developed by national standardization bodies of each country such as AENOR in Spain, Argentina IRAM, DIN in Germany, BSI in England etc. In the field of social responsibility in this area many countries have developed or are developing its standards for some based on the ISO 26000 as Israel, Colombia, Mexico, England, Spain, Portugal, Australia, Uruguay, Brazil and others, some of them even based on ISO 26000 contain requirements of a social responsibility management such as ISO 9001 in quality that contain requirements IF p ueden be certifiable.

Within Standards Association the best known are the ASTM (American Association for Testing and Materials), API (American Petroleum Institute), ASME (Society American materials), we could say that the issue of social responsibility would OHSAS Standards (Standards for Management Systems Occupational Safety and Health).

Finally business rules as its name implies, are produced by firms for internal use and their features are more specific than the above rules.

In the field of social responsibility have documents produced at different levels, mainly by businesses or business associations such as the SA 8000 (System Social Responsibility), AA 1000 (Accountability) and SGE21 of Foret (System Management Ethics and Social Responsibility).

In the case of ISO 26000, this was developed through a working group depending on the Management Committee of the ISO called TMB consists of 450 experts nominated by national standards bodies members ISO and liaison organizations concerned with the subject to normalize.

Third is important to note that the rules are classified according to their content, for example, ISO documentation difference Technical Standards (IS), Technical Specifications (TS), Publicly Available Specifications (PAS), Technical Reports (TR), Guidelines (developed COPOLCO Policy Committee) and International Agreements obtained Workshops (IWA) .

In turn, within the international TANDARDS n a wide variety of these, such as norms of requirements which are unique certifiable, standards, guidelines, guidelines, definitions and others. ISO 26000 to Despite being a standard as its name suggests is a guide and to be the guide does not contain requirements but recommendations or guidelines, which means it can not be certifiable because for a standard certificate must contain requirements and the 18000 or more standards developed by ISO, barely 10 of them are certifiable character and ISO 26000 is not among them.

Last but not least, the certification bodies and firms should take into account the joint resolution of the governing International Organizations in the field (ISO Standardization in the area) and IAF (International Accreditation Forum ) in the area of \u200b\u200bAccreditation in which it is reported that under no circumstances recognize any certification that is based on ISO 26000 and is applied to all certification bodies that do not promote nor give certification to ISO 26000.

much we talk about commercialism and selling of certificates thing that really happens because the certification is a business ... .. It would take much imagination to certify the Uncertifiable by definition.

Mr. Perla Puterman S

Management Advisory

@ FRSIBeroamerica

pps@cantv.net

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