Organisations often adopt multiple ISO management system standards to improve quality, security, sustainability, and resilience. While each ISO standard serves a specific purpose such as ISO 9001 for quality, ISO 27001 for information security, or ISO 14001 for environmental performance, they all share a common structure known as Annex SL.
This shared framework allows companies to integrate several ISO standards into a single, unified management system, reducing duplication, simplifying audits, and improving overall governance. Integrated systems also help align strategy, operations, and compliance goals across different business functions.
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Main Focus: Comprehensive quality management, emphasising customer satisfaction, process efficiency, continuous improvement, and organisational excellence.
Integrates Well With: ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 27001, ISO 22301, ISO 50001, ISO 20000
Integration Rationale: Shares the Annex SL structure, facilitating the integration of multiple management systems. Quality processes support operational performance, regulatory compliance, risk management, and continual improvement across the organisation.
Main Focus: Environmental stewardship and sustainable operations, focusing on reducing environmental impact, legal compliance, resource efficiency, and pollution prevention.
Integrates Well With: ISO 9001, ISO 45001, ISO 50001
Integration Rationale: Aligns with other management systems through shared goals in sustainability, risk mitigation, operational efficiency, and corporate responsibility, enabling organisations to manage environmental and operational performance together.
Main Focus: Ensuring workplace safety, reducing occupational risks, improving employee wellbeing, and fostering a proactive safety culture.
Integrates Well With: ISO 9001, ISO 45001
Integration Rationale: Focuses on risk management, compliance, and continual improvement, complementing quality and environmental management systems. Integration allows unified reporting, risk assessment, and performance monitoring.
Main Focus: Protecting information assets through risk-based security controls, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data, and maintaining stakeholder trust.
Integrates Well With: ISO 27701, ISO 22301, ISO 20000, ISO 9001
Integration Rationale: Provides a foundation for privacy (ISO 27701), IT service management, and business continuity frameworks. Integration ensures security, privacy, and operational resilience are managed consistently across the organisation.
Main Focus: Managing personal data privacy, extending ISO 27001 controls to meet data protection regulations, and establishing robust privacy governance frameworks.
Integrates Well With: ISO 27001 (mandatory), ISO 22301, ISO 20000
Integration Rationale: Enhances data protection within information security and business continuity systems, allowing organisations to comply with privacy legislation while maintaining operational continuity and IT service reliability.
Main Focus: Building organisational resilience, preparing for disruptions, and ensuring continuity of critical business processes during incidents or emergencies.
Integrates Well With: ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 20000
Integration Rationale: Complements risk, information security, and quality management by aligning business continuity strategies with operational, IT, and data security objectives, enabling cohesive incident response and recovery planning.
Main Focus: Optimising energy performance, reducing energy costs, promoting sustainability, and improving environmental and operational efficiency.
Integrates Well With: ISO 14001, ISO 9001
Integration Rationale: Shares sustainability and performance improvement goals, supporting integrated management of energy, environmental impact, and quality outcomes.
Main Focus: Guiding responsible AI development and deployment, ensuring ethical use, regulatory compliance, risk management, and data governance in AI systems.
Integrates Well With: ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 9001
Integration Rationale: Emerging standard aligned with Annex SL, supporting integrated governance, risk, and compliance frameworks. Helps manage ethical, legal, and operational risks associated with AI technologies.
Main Focus: Delivering high-quality IT services, improving service management processes, ensuring efficiency, and aligning IT with business needs.
Integrates Well With: ISO 27001, ISO 22301, ISO 27701, ISO 9001
Integration Rationale: Strong alignment in service quality, risk management, and information security. Integration provides cohesive IT service delivery, security, privacy, and business continuity management.
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