It ensures that accreditation bodies operate with impartiality, competence, and consistency, serving as a fundamental reference for global recognition agreements like the IAF MLA and ILAC MRA.

It helps organizations understand customer expectations, analyze feedback for improvement, and boosts brand loyalty. It also complements the customer satisfaction monitoring requirements of ISO 9001.

QHSE frameworks are often aligned with standards like ISO 9001, ISO 45001, and ISO 14001 to promote consistency, efficiency, and continuous improvement across an organization.

It offers guidance to senior leadership to ensure IT use aligns with business goals, delivers value, and mitigates IT-related risks. The framework is based on six key principles: Responsibility, Strategy, Acquisition, Performance, Conformance, and Human Behavior.

It is designed to help organizations mitigate risks related to malicious tampering and counterfeiting within global IT supply chains. It covers the entire product lifecycle, from design and development to disposal.

It extends the controls of ISO/IEC 27002 with cloud-specific guidance and clarifies the shared security responsibilities between cloud service providers (CSPs) and cloud service customers (CSCs).

It is designed for cloud service providers acting as PII processors and focuses on implementing data privacy principles such as consent, transparency, and accountability, aligning with global data protection laws like the GDPR.

It is designed to help organizations manage personally identifiable information (PII) and ensure compliance with privacy laws like GDPR. It clarifies roles for both PII Controllers and PII Processors.

It helps enhance decision-making under uncertainty and serves as a core framework to support the "Risk-Based Thinking" emphasized in many other ISO management systems like ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.

It enables organizations to systematically manage compliance with legal obligations and ethical expectations, thereby minimizing legal risks and strengthening corporate governance.

It is a voluntary guidance document, not for certification, and is structured around seven core subjects, including human rights, labor practices, and the environment, to help integrate social responsibility into operations.

It helps organizations manage their tangible and intangible assets effectively throughout their lifecycle to enhance financial performance, manage risks, and support long-term sustainability.

These standards ensure records are authentic, reliable, and usable as evidence, which enhances organizational accountability, supports legal compliance, and preserves long-term information assets. ISO 15489-1 provides the foundational philosophy for records management, while ISO 30301 is the practical tool that allows an organization to build, operate, and get certified on a system based on that foundation.

It helps organizations develop a system that promotes value creation through knowledge, enhances decision-making and innovation, and fosters a knowledge-driven culture.

It follows the PDCA model to help organizations improve energy performance, reduce operating costs and GHG emissions, and easily integrates with other management systems.

These standards provide a shared structure and language to enhance project governance, planning, and execution, thereby improving success rates across all types of projects. ISO 10006 is a specialized guideline for ensuring "quality" in projects, whereas ISO 21502 provides a broader, more modern framework for successfully managing the project itself.

It defines spatial envelope dimensions and performance criteria to ensure trainer seats do not compromise operator safety and to support the laboratory testing of protective structures (e.g., ROPS/FOPS).

It integrates the principles of ISO 9001 with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), helping to minimize the risk of contamination and ensure compliance with pharmaceutical safety regulations.

It combines business and risk management with accountability to laws and respect for human rights, which is especially critical in environments where the rule of law may be compromised.

With parts covering food manufacturing, catering, farming, and packaging, these standards detail the hygiene and safety controls needed to control food safety hazards. Implementation is mandatory for GFSI-recognized certifications like FSSC 22000.

It helps organizations minimize risks like contamination and product mix-ups, ensuring product safety and supporting compliance with international cosmetic regulations.

It helps organizations identify and manage security risks such as terrorism, piracy, and theft. It aligns with international secure trade programs like AEO and C-TPAT, which can lead to customs clearance benefits.

It is based on ISO 9001 but adds sector-specific requirements that address the critical risks, reliability, and traceability needed in oil and gas operations.

It provides a structured framework to control factors contributing to accidents, such as unsafe speed and driver fatigue, which helps improve safety culture and can lead to cost savings through fewer incidents.

It helps organizations align facility management with strategic goals, enhance operational efficiency, and improve service quality and user satisfaction in the built environment.

It is intended to complement existing occupational health and safety systems like ISO 45001 by offering specific guidance for biological hazards during a pandemic.

It outlines a systematic approach to help providers deliver safe, effective, equitable, and people-centered care, with key elements including a leadership-driven quality culture and risk mitigation.

It aims to preserve product quality and integrity by providing strict guidelines for transportation, storage, handling, and temperature control, which is critical for preventing counterfeiting and protecting patient health.

GMP governs all aspects of manufacturing—from raw materials and personnel to facilities and record-keeping—to minimize risks of contamination and defects in sectors like pharmaceuticals, food, and cosmetics.