MANAMA: Zayed R. Alzayani, Minister of Industry and Commerce, who opened the ISO Forum titled of “Achieving International Standards”, said Bahrain was keen on achieving international standards.
“The forum is being held for the first time in Bahrain and the region and discusses an extensive debate about how the institutions adapt quality systems with the requirement of the new version ISO9001: 2015 which will be adopted by the International Standards Organization in September the focuses on enhancing awareness of various organizations and government institutions and private companies on the importance of “ISO” standards.”
“The overall topics on the agenda is interesting and enhances areas of development and improving performance of individuals and institutions, I wish them success and to repeat this kind of conference in Bahrain,” the Minister said.
“The first ISO forum comes as one of effective tools to stimulate application quality in all private and public institutions,” Chairman of Bahrain Quality Society Dr. Khalid Khalid Bomtaia, said.
“There are many companies around the world including Bahrain considered obtaining ISO certificate to reach the global.”
ISO Forum attracts eight speakers of quality experts in Bahrain and the world from OHSAS and Industrial Consultants. A number of professionals applying quality management system participated in the forum, on the first day of the forum Head of quality and performance measurement at the CSB Amel Alninali presented a working paper entitled “Quality Management in the public sector challenges and difficulties and improvement mechanisms”. On the second day, Alia Almanaai and Reem Marhoom presented workshop under title of “CSB’s experiences in internal quality audits fields”.
The forum which was adopted by the Ministry of Labor as one of the approved programs in the vocational training program (Training Levy) is working to put Bahrain on the world map in quality field and spread quality culture to small and medium institutions and build capacity and make institutions more qualified to competitiveness and move forward to achieve the vision of the Kingdom of Bahrain 2030.