Management Review
What is Management Review?
A periodic evaluation by top management of the suitability, adequacy, effectiveness, and alignment of the management system with strategic direction. Management reviews are required by all ISO management system standards.
Terms that appear alongside management review
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as management review. The number is how many controls name both.
- audit 19 shared controls
- management system 17 shared controls
- internal audit 10 shared controls
- policy 9 shared controls
- continuous improvement 7 shared controls
- information security 7 shared controls
- compliance 6 shared controls
- risk assessment 5 shared controls
Frameworks that govern management review
What the standards actually require on management review
Requirements naming management review across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Top management reviews the RMS at planned intervals to ensure continuing suitability, adequacy, and effectiveness.
SPC1-4.6 · Management Review →Top management must review the BCMS on a planned basis against a defined set of inputs, and must record and act on the decisions the review produces.
iso-22301-2019::9.3 · Management review →The results of the management review include decisions on continual improvement opportunities and any need for changes to the AI management system, and documented information is retained as evidence of those results.
iso-iec-42001-2023::9.3.3 · Management review results →Requirement defined in ISO 22000:2018, clause 9.3 (Management review). See licensed source for normative text. Implementation focus is to demonstrate conformity with the obligations of this clause through the artefacts listed in evidence_requirements.
iso-22000-2018::9.3 · Management review →Requirement defined in ISO 37301:2021, clause 9.3 (Management review). See licensed source for normative text. Implementation focus is to demonstrate conformity with the obligations of this clause through the artefacts listed in evidence_requirements.
iso-37301-2021::9.3 · Management review →Requirement defined in ISO 9001:2015, clause 9.3 (Management review). See licensed source for normative text. Implementation focus is to demonstrate conformity with the obligations of this clause through the artefacts listed in evidence_requirements.
iso-9001-2015::9.3 · Management review →Questions people ask about management review
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