Update Details: New alphaZ documents added for ISO 9001:2026, covering opportunities and objectives, communications, legal compliance review and supplier policy, plus the new ISO 9001:2026 Requirements Checklists.
ISO 9001:2026 was published on 16 September 2026, and our news post ISO 9001:2026 Published - What's Changed? covers the changes to the standard itself. The 2026 edition adds no new mandatory documents, so each new file is an option, giving an area of the standard a dedicated record where that suits the way you work. Every file is a fully editable MS Word template and can be used on its own or added to an existing management system.
ISO 9001:2026 Opportunities and Objectives
ISO 9001:2026 splits clause 6.1 so that opportunities are determined, analysed and evaluated in their own right (clause 6.1.3), separately from risks, and the effectiveness of the action taken on each comes to management review as a separate input. Two new files give opportunities a record of their own, as an alternative to the opportunities taken forward table on the F-Q3 Management Review form.
| F-IMS40 Opportunities and Objectives Register | Opportunities given a priority rating from their feasibility and benefit, and quality objectives planned with actions, resources, measures, responsibility and target dates (clauses 6.1.3 and 6.2), in one standing register |
| F-Q40 Opportunities Tracker | A single-page tracker for agreed opportunities, recording the action and resources, how success is measured, responsibility and target date |
ISO 9001:2026 Communications and Compliance Review
| F-IMS43 Communications Register | A communication plan setting out what, when, with whom, how and who communicates (clause 7.4), with a log of significant external communications and guidance on what to log |
| F-IMS41 Commercial and Legal Compliance Review | Two review forms for checking legal compliance ahead of management review: F-IMS41A for organisations keeping a full legal register, with a commercial review of sales, customers and contracts, and F-IMS41B, a simplified UK legal compliance review for those without one |
ISO 9001:2026 Supplier Policy
| P-125 Supplier Policy | How suppliers, contractors and sub-contractors are selected, approved and monitored, and what is expected of them (clause 8.4), written to share with suppliers and customers |
ISO 9001:2026 Requirements Checklists
The new full clause internal audit checklist works through ISO 9001:2026 from clause 4.1 to 10.2, set out on the F-Q2A Audit Checklist format with space to record the evidence viewed and the findings against each requirement. It covers the 2026 additions, including climate change (4.1), quality culture and ethical behaviour (5.1.1 and 7.3), the separate handling of risks and opportunities (6.1.1 to 6.1.3), planning of changes (6.3), and continual improvement at its new number, 10.1. A second checklist lists the mandatory documents and records with the clause each one comes from.
ISO 9001:2026 Requirements Checklists
For organisations still working to ISO 9001:2015 during the transition, the ISO 9001:2015 Requirements Checklists remain available.
The registers, forms, supplier policy and checklists are all part of the ISO 9001 Toolkit and every integrated toolkit that includes ISO 9001. The ISO 9001:2026 Requirements Checklists are also supplied with the ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 27001 and ISO 22301 toolkits.
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ISO 9001:2026 - What Changed from ISO 9001:2015
