CHAPTER 8
Quality, Health and Safety, and the Environment
Standalone or Integrated?
The management of quality covers many overlapping requirements and varies across the sectors of business and society. The obvious burden of having separate stand-alone management systems has been recognized and addressed in many ways.
The PAS 99 standard was the first Integrated Management System (IMS) standard (Figure 8.1),1 closely followed by the Small Business Standard which was published by the Management Consultant Register of the Chartered Quality Institute.2
The Integrated Management Systems standard MSS 10003 is a full open source standard.
A management system must enable an organization to meet the several major universal commitments of:
• Quality; ...
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