N19 Guidance on Communication related to IWA 26:2017

Using ISO 26000:2010 in management systems

Stockholm March 26, 2018

Authors:
Staffan Söderberg, Osama El Meligy, Tina Bohlin
Contact: Ms. Tina Bohlin [email protected]
SIS, Swedish Standards Institute

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 IWA 26
Title:
IWA26:2017 Using ISO 26000:2010 in management systems

Development
period and September 2016 to August 2017 (publication)
Publication date:

Published by:
ISO, Geneva, www.iso.org

Type of
deliverable: ISO International Workshop Agreement (IWA)
(Not an ISO Standard, not an ISO Management System Standard.)

Development
process
Method
Two open international multi/stakeholder-based two-day workshops
(in Sweden and in the United Kingdom) resolved close to 400 written
comments on two consecutive drafts. The workshop group was
dissolved when IWA 26 was published.

Decision method:
Consensus, i.e. not unanimity or vote. The group negotiated until all
significant parts of any concerned interests could accept the text.

Participating
countries: 70 participants from 31 countries during the two workshops

Given name Family name Country

Staffan Söderberg Secretariat, Sweden
Tina Bohlin Secretariat, Sweden
Anna-Karin Jansson Secretariat, Sweden
Rosemary Matemba (Ndesamburo) Secretariat, Tanzania
Adriana Rosenfeld Argentina
Martin Neureiter Austria
Kernaghan Webb Canada
Andres Hernandez Chile
Gefei Yin China
Qinying Zhang China
Yibo Dai China
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 Adriana Maria Alonso Rozo Colombia
Luisa Fernanda Pallares Colombia
María Isabel Tolosa Sarache Colombia
Biljana Tanatarec Croatia
Nenad Nikolić Croatia
Anne Gadegaard Denmark
Diogenes Diaz-Segarra Ecuador
Osama Elmeligy Egypt
Laila Törnroos Finland
Salla Koivusalo Finland
Francois Sibille France
Mamadou Sangare France
Nicole Goineau France
Eckhard Metze Germany
Gisela Eickhoff Germany
Paul Noll Germany
Richmond Asare Ghana
Steven Korshi Agbo Ghana
Elise McCarthy Ireland
Antonio Astone Italy
Maria Francesca Bergamaschi Italy
Manabu Eto Japan
Hassan Ndisho Kenya
Choong-Ho Kang Korea
Eunsook Moon Korea
JongYul Kim Korea
Maimunah Khalid Malaysia
Ratna Devi Nadarajan Malaysia
Tow Hui Chiam Malaysia
Karla Lizzeth Guerrero Lozoya Mexico
Diana Guerrero Lozoya Mexico
Bart Slob Netherlands
Carlos Horna Peru
Jesús Cañizares Spain
Mario Calderón Spain
Ajith Prasanna Abeywarna Sri Lanka
Birgitta Karlsson Sweden
Björn Nilsson Sweden
Hans von Axelson Sweden
Jakub Srebro Sweden

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 Jonas Denvall Sweden
Lennart Piper Sweden
Michael Verne Sweden
Peter Åberg Sweden
Pilar Avello Sweden
Stefan Larsson Sweden
Peter Hall Switzerland
Franz Knecht Switzerland
René Wasmer Switzerland
Tuba Atabey Turkey
Colin McKerracher UK
Ged Farmer UK (Iloc)
John Devaney UK
Nigel Croft UK
Ruth Hillary UK
Sally Swingewood UK
Leopoldo Rodriguez Venezuela
Lorenza Jachia UNECE

Workshop
leadership: National standards bodies in Sweden (SIS) and Tanzania (TBS)
Chair: Mr. Staffan Söderberg, AMAP Sustainability, www.amap.se
[email protected]
Secretary: Ms. Tina Bohlin, SIS - Swedish Standards Institute,
www.sis.se, [email protected]
Secretary: Rosemary Matemba, TBS – Tanzania Bureau of Standards,
http://www.tbs.go.tz/ [email protected]

Target Groups

• IWA 26 is aimed at any business or organization using ISO

26000:2010 or using any one of the many ISO management
system standards (MSS), e.g. ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001.

• This includes stakeholders related to social responsibility and

management systems, such as ISO MSS certified
organizations, consultants, training centers, ISO technical
committees locally and internationally, management system
auditors, local and national government agencies.

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 Communication
channels

Depending on the local context, examples:

• Press release from the NSB

• Devoted page on NSB website with facts, Questions/Answers

• One-page information that can be disseminated through for

example NSB national committees

• Launch Event

• Publish articles

• Prepare a powerpoint presentation and make it available

IWA 26: Key

Messages

• IWA 26 is an ISO IWA, International Workshop Agreement

• IWA 26 is not an ISO standard or an ISO Management System

Standard.

• IWA 26 can be used by any type or size of organization

anywhere in the world.

• IWA 26 is an immediate response to a need that emerged

after ISO members developed ISO 26000 Guidance on social
responsibility and the new structure for all management
system standards.

• IWA 26 is an attempt to help those more than 1,4 million

companies and organizations that use ISO management
system standards to also integrate social responsibility.

• IWA 26 especially reaches out to those using ISO 9001

Quality management systems and ISO 14001 Environmental
management systems.

• IWA 26 is not a summary of social responsibility (ISO 26000)

or ISO management systems (eg ISO 14001)

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 Main benefits of IWA 26:

• It helps an organization approach social responsibility

according to known structures of ISO management system
standards

• It helps an organization focus on a continual improvements

approach related to social responsibility

• It helps an organization better understand how to apply

clause 7 of ISO 26000, Guidance on Integration social
responsibility throughout an organization

IWA 26: Content

Short summary:

Clause 3 offers 20 definitions that help the user apply IWA26

Clause 4 is aimed primarily at users who are more familiar with ISO
26000: it focuses on the structure of ISO management system
standards and how this relates to ISO 26000;

Clause 5 is aimed primarily at users who are more familiar with the
ISO management system standards: it focuses on the guidance given
in ISO 26000 and the structure for ISO management system
standards

Clause 6 describes how integrated management systems and ISO

26000 can be used together;

Annex A shows the main linkages between the clauses of ISO 26000
and the structure for ISO management system standards, and is
intended to help users of ISO 26000 to use management system
standards;

Annex B shows the main linkages between the structure for ISO
management system standards and the clauses of ISO 26000, and is
intended to help users of management system standards to use the
guidance in ISO 26000.

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 IWA 26:
Application

• Organizations using IWA 26 are recommended to have a

copy of ISO 26000:2010 and an ISO Management System
Standard available

• Organizations using IWA26 can communicate this but from a

stakeholder perspective it is often more important to
communicate how the organization manages its social
responsibility impacts, i.e. its contribution to sustainable
development.

IWA 26: Quotes

Ms. Tina Bohlin, Project Manager Swedish Standards Institute

”IWA 26 can help those thousands of companies and organizations
in Sweden using ISO management system standards, to take a step
towards social responsibility”
[email protected]

Mr. Osama El Maligy, Chair National Committee on Social

Responsibility at Egyptian Organization for Standardization
“It is all about fostering a culture of responsibility and in Egypt we
have many important small- and medium sized companies that will
benefit from seeing the connection between the structure of ISO
management systems and the power of social responsibility”
[email protected]

Ms. Rosemary Matemba, Head of Environment Section, Tanzania

Bureau of Standards,
“Many of the companies that have chosen ISO 14001 to manage
their environmental impacts can use IWA26 to integrate social
responsibility”
[email protected]

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 More information:

• Getting a copy of IWA 26:

https://www.iso.org/standard/72669.html

• Getting sample texts from IWA 26: http://www.iso.org/obp

• Launch news: https://www.iso.org/news/ref2198.html

• Information about ISO 26000:

https://www.iso.org/sr
https://www.iso.org/news/ref2204.html

• General information about ISO 26000 and IWA 26:

http://www.Iso26000.info/iwa26

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