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16/06/2013 The pros and cons of the ISO certification - Quality – The Quality System - Academy - THE PROS AND CONS OF THE ISO CERTIFICATION Academy » Quality – The Quality System » The pros and cons of the ISO certification The ISO system certification has p rated our lives throughout. It has its advocates as well as adversaries. Today, there is hardly any manager in the Czech Republic who would not know about ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 and other management systems. Certification has become enormous business both for consulting companies and, in particular, certification firms. The question, n heless, remains whether it gives owners, managers and workers any added value at all. Formerly, it used to be the greatest argument for entering selection procedures for ernment contracts. This argument has been gradually losing ground in the face of the many corruption scandals that have transpired so far. The argument that only an ISO-certified is really representing quality no longer holds true; the reason is that every that pays will get the . This is why it is more than appropriate, af ll those years of the certification-and-ISO madness, to ask the following fundamental questions: Do the benefits of ISO, AS, TS and other standards prevail in practice? Has the ISO certification already lost the added value for companies? On what conditions does the ISO really bring the benefit? … In the world so diverse, nothing can be generalized. You would always have to go case by case and, it also needs to be considered whether companies have only themselves to blame for the approach consulting and certification firms have adopted. The managers do not think of their companies´ future when arranging for the management system at the very la