ISO 9001:2026 in Practice · Vol. 1 — Understanding ISO Standards and Certification Audits

What are ISO standards, who writes them, and how does certification really work? This first volume of ISO 9001:2026 in Practice gives certification candidates, new auditors and certification body staff one clear picture of the whole system: standards bodies, accreditation (ISO/IEC 17011 and the Korea Accreditation Board as a worked example), certification bodies and auditors. You will follow the requirements of ISO/IEC 17021-1 and 17021-3, the IAF Mandatory Documents on audit time, multi-site sampling, remote auditing, transfers and integrated audits, and the ISO 19011:2026 guidelines, all the way to gaining and keeping certification. Every section uses the same eight elements: the requirement, related laws, 20 checks for the organization, 20 checks for the auditor, 5 evidence items, a SafeTech case, an audit report example and conformity, Minor NC and Major NC examples. The cases use a fictional company, SafeTech Co., Ltd., and a fictional certification body, SafeCert, with synthetic data. Also available in paperback. Purchasers can download the Reader Download Pack (example files) at isccert.org/book-resources with the Reader Code printed on the copyright page.