07 Mar ISO 9001 for Caravan and Trailer Manufacturers
On the 1st July 2021, the Road Vehicle Standard Act 2018 replaced the Motor Vehicle Standards Act of 1989. This began a 12 month transitional process where all Caravan and Trailer Manufacturers must attain ISO 9001 Certification for Quality Assurance.
What are these changes in requirements from the Australian Government?
Under the RVA legislation, you are now required to indicate that you have full control over your operational processes, it is expected that these processes are documented and followed to indicate that all stages of design, componentry and manufacturing.
From the Guide:
Quality Management System (QMS) accredited by the relevant international certification body. This means you would hold a valid ISO 9001 series certificate with a scope relevant to the manufacture of your type of low ATM trailer. If you do not have an ISO 9001 series certificate, the department expects you to support your claim of having full control over the design, componentry and manufacture of the low ATM trailer type For details about the expected content of a full QMS, please see Appendix 2 Details expected in a summarised QMS are provided in Appendix 3
How to become ISO 9001 Compliant?
As mentioned above, a key component of your Quality Management System will be your documented processes, typically this is in a Quality Assurance manual with outlined policies, procedures and forms which are aligned to the processes stated in the ISO 9001.
Most business owners who are unfamiliar with ISO 9001 or don’t have the time to modify their existing documents can often come unstuck here. Luckily the SafeWrite platform has pre-built ISO 9001-compliant policies, procedures and forms for businesses to instantly generate with 70-90% of the content already written!
The next component of an ISO 9001 accreditation is providing the evidence that you are following your outlined processes. After all, they cannot accredit you on your documentation alone, they need to see proof that you are following the processes provided.
The SafeWrite platform also comes with the required registers to streamline these tasks, making it easy for business to log Non-Conformances, set Corrective Actions and conduct regular Internal Audits and Checklists.
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