What is the added value of obtaining third party certification to ISO/TS 29001?
Organizations apply ISO Standards for Quality Management Systems because requirements there specified are key points consistently providing products that meet customer and regulatory requirements in the context of continual improvement. (Customers usually request at least an ISO 9001 certificate from their suppliers.) Customers from the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries may now be interested to consider third party certification to ISO/TS 29001 as a key point for qualification of their product/service suppliers. A ISO/TS 29001:2003 quality certificate issued by a credible third party may permit an Organization to satisfy such needs of its customers, and be evidence of compliance to more than 30 extra quality system requirements above ISO 9001:2000 that are of particular concern to the petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industry; although customers may continue to perform their own supplementary audits.