The ISO 26000 has become perhaps the most important event of 2010 on social responsibility, their adoption has raised many expectations among the different actors of responsibility in almost all countries, developed and developing very special consultants, universities, some local and municipal governments, enterprises, are SMEs, large companies, multinational corporations.
Since its publication in November 2010 have raised a number of news related to the implementation of ISO 26000, implementation of ISO 26000, the ISO 26000 certification, verification to ISO 26000, ISO 26000 audits and awards to the ISO 26000.
have held workshops, seminars and conferences in most countries that participated in its preparation, some sponsored by the same ISO, the national standards bodies and in other cases by organizations who participated in the development, assistance has been important primarily by curiosity to know its content and especially with a large attendance of companies, and of course consultants seeking ways to convert this document into a new business.
addition, there have been publications and interviews in magazines, newspapers and other media. In the specific case of the workshops, at least in my case, the feedback from the participants and especially large multinational companies and has been very positive, have been the standard as an improvement tool for incorporating social responsibility practices practices and systems already in the organization.
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STANDARD
In terms of implementation, despite the uproar that has resulted, very few countries which has actually begun its implementation, limited to large enterprises, multinational corporations have already developed programs responsibility social or sustainability, they have begun to assess how to integrate the standard in the practice or the existing management systems and in some cases already well advanced actions.
In some countries, companies have been the standard with skepticism owing to the prevailing economic and political conditions, which results in not only this but any standard is difficult to implement. Some companies, though it is not, see the policy and other management system and many do not believe in systems management, while other companies especially SMEs are hardly trying to implement the ISO 14001 environment. Paradoxically, another fact that makes it look Standard with skepticism is that it is certified and some are waiting for the certified version for your application.
It is noteworthy that organizations like the Global Compact and the Global Report Initiative GRI have developed documents which establish an equivalence with some aspects of the Standard, which has allowed in the case of the Global Compact approve the compliance with Standard in these respects human rights, labor practices, environment and fair operating practices. With respect to this equivalence GRI has used the GRI Guidelines in conjunction with ISO 26000 for the preparation of sustainability reports exist examples such as new an insurance company in Ecuador.
There are other examples of application that I would call as misuse of ISO 26000 as is the case of a prize in the Netherlands, the case of a global certification including ISO 26000 in France, and the case of inspections or audits conducted by consultants. Is worth noting that none of these actions can be performed with a standard of guidelines that does not contain requirements.
Notwithstanding the above I believe that in 6 months is very little time to assess the impact of ISO 26000, because I think there is a first novel approach with caution, but I'm sure that when organizations and in particular companies begin to evaluate its contents in depth found in it a powerful tool for incorporating social responsibility into the everyday practices of your organization.
M18. ABR, 2011 BY PEARL S. Puterman, INTERNATIONAL EXPERT ON SOCIAL AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS / @ FRSIBEROAMERICA © Blog RCySost
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