This international standard for quality management systems has been customized for the needs of the petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries. It covers the design and implementation of an organization’s quality management systems providing useful information on general requirements and documentation needed to monitor quality, management responsibility and policy, resource management, measurement, analysis and improvement.
The requirements specified in PD ISO/TS 29001:2003 are supplementary to ISO 9001. They have been developed separately to ensure that the requirements are clear and auditable. The requirements also provide a global consistency and improved assurance in the quality of supply of goods and services from providers, as the consequence of failure of goods or services may have severe ramifications for the companies and industries involved.