Integrating QMS and ISMS

August 2009

Presenter: Thomas Helms, SRS SWPF - Parsons
Track 9-7

Topics Covered:

Integration: To bring differing elements or parts together as one.
Management System: An organization’s documented set of policies, plans, procedures, programs devised and implemented to obtain mission objectives
Problem Statement: How and what does the contractor need to do, if anything, to affect direction to integrate ISMS and QMS?

• DOE O 414.1C: The Quality Assurance Program (QAP) “Integrates, where practicable and consistent … with other … management system requirements … including ... DOE P 450.4, Safety Management System Policy.”
• Bring Together QMS & ISMS?
• The ISMS – QMS Relationship Varies with Scope
• Where they Diverge
• Where they Merge
• QA/QC Assures Flow Down of Design Requirements
• Safety Basis Protection
• Latent versus Active Hazards
• Design Phase ISMS QMS
• What Do We Integrate?
• Human and Process Elements