Multiple Standards and Integrated Management Systems in HCM

Answer it once, count it everywhere

ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and ISO 22301 share a common structure: context, leadership, planning, support, performance evaluation and improvement are asked in much the same way by each standard. In an HCM integrated management system gap analysis, each of those common requirements is asked once. Your rating, your description of how the process works, your evidence and your action plan then count for every standard in the system.

Requirements that belong to one standard, such as operational control of environmental aspects or the business impact analysis in ISO 22301, are asked in their own sections in the same assessment. Where your position genuinely differs between standards, for example an integrated policy that does not yet carry one standard’s commitments, you can switch a question to “answer separately for each standard” and record each position on its own.

Every standard keeps its own score

Combined and separate. HCM shows a combined conformity score across the integrated system, with each common requirement counted once, alongside each standard’s own score worked out over its own questions. Your certification body audits each standard on its own terms, so the separate scores matter, and a board wants one number, so the combined score matters too.

Results side by side. The results page sets each clause against every standard in the system, so it is easy to see where a weakness in one clause, such as planning of changes, affects several certificates at once. Each standard still has its own action report and its own management summary, with Word, Excel and PowerPoint downloads for the people who need them.

Shared actions close several gaps at once

One of the biggest time savings in an integrated system is that a single action can close the same gap in every standard it applies to. Updating the context register to cover climate change, for example, can satisfy ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 in one step. HCM records the action once, with one owner and one target date, and shows it against each standard, so nobody is asked to do the same piece of work three times.

Standards and routes available

ISO 9001:2026 as a full gap analysis or as a transition from the 2015 edition. ISO 14001:2026 as a full gap analysis or a transition. ISO 45001:2018 with Amendment 1:2024, including the climate change additions. ISO 22301:2019 with Amendment 1:2024 for business continuity. AS9100D as a full gap analysis or as an upgrade from ISO 9001 that asks only about the aerospace additions. AS9100D is not combined with ISO 9001 in an integrated system, because it already contains all of ISO 9001.

An existing single-standard gap analysis can be extended into an integrated system without losing its answers, so organisations can start with one standard and add others as their plans grow.

Integration that reflects real organisations

We have built and certified integrated management systems for organisations that wanted one set of processes rather than three parallel systems, and we designed HCM to support that approach rather than fight it. The question mapping follows the harmonized structure used in the current ISO management system standards, written in our own words and checked against the published standards.

Integrated system gap analyses are part of HCM Professional and HCM Complete. Read more about our integrated management systems service, see how the HCM gap analysis works for a single standard, or get in touch to discuss which standards belong in your system.