Obtaining ISO 9001 certification for your company used to be a rather long and arduous journey.

On-site audits, a multi-stage assessment process, meetings upon meetings, paperwork upon paperwork...it's hard to make time for all of that, especially when you've already got the day-to-day running of your business to worry about.

So if you've decided that ISO 9001 isn't a priority for your organisation, that's understandable. Getting certified, and maintaining that certification once you've got it, is costly and time-consuming.

Or rather it was costly and time-consuming until ISO Accelerator came along.

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A new version of the ISO 9001 standard is coming soon. ISO 9001:2026 is scheduled to roll out in September 2026, at which point it will replace ISO 9001:2015 as the current version of ISO 9001.

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Short answer: no, ISO 9001 does not cover health and safety. The ISO standard for occupational health and safety is ISO 45001.

ISO 9001 is the international standard for quality management systems. It has nothing to do with health and safety, which has its own ISO standard (ISO 45001).

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ISO 9001 certification is not mandatory for businesses, but it can be very beneficial. Certified companies generally boast a higher level of customer satisfaction, and ISO certification is required to win big contracts in certain sectors.

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As of April 2025, the current version of the ISO 9001 standard is ISO 9001:2015.

However, that will not be the case for much longer. In 2023, we learned that ISO Technical Committee 176, Sub-Committee 2 had voted to start a revision of the ISO 9001 standard with immediate effect.

That revision process is now underway, and a new version of ISO 9001 is scheduled to be published in September 2026.

Further information on the pending update can be found here: ISO 9001:2026 – What to Expect

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