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SR (CSR)

SR stands for Social Responsibility. The range of SR is wide. SR includes environment, quality, safety, human rights and information security. SR is the main bone of Management .

History from Environment to SR

• For environment
  : Getting ISO14001 and publishing an environmental report are done by many production companies.
• Widen the idea of "environment" and changed into CSR
  : CSR (corporate social responsibility) becomes major point. CSR includes ecology.
• Change from CSR to SR. And normalization
  : CSR is normalized as ISO26000. In this step, "C" of CSR is removed. And the idea of CSR is applied to all organization.

ISO26000

The ISO of SR is ISO26000.

ISO26000 includes...

ISO26000 is designed to help sustainable development of the world.

Actions of SR are accountability, observance, etc. Targets of SR are human rights, the environment, customers ,etc.

The effects of ISO26000

Many companies may lose their purpose of management because they cannot find the relationhip between the action for the environment and the action for getting money. So the idea, that SR includes the environment, could be the large effect.

In many compnaies, Environment , Quality , human rights, etc are dealed with separately. But ISO26000 put those themes are parts of SR.

Difference from ISO9001 and ISO14001

The impact of ISO9001 and ISO14001 for companies was large. So the difference between those ISO and ISO26000 is often explained.

• "ISO 26000 is not a standard of a management system."
• "ISO26000 does not need certification."
• "ISO26000 is a guideline."

ISO9001 and ISO14001 are tools of SR.

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