ISO 9001 Certification envisages Quality Management System. OMC decided to implement the ISO 9001 Quality Management System to have the following benefits:

1. Enhance operational efficiency;
2. Ensure better marketability;
3. Reduce cost;
4. Promote greater customer satisfaction & excellence,
5. Standardize different procedures;
6. Add value for money;
7. Enhance production; 
8. Maximize operational efficiency, capacity utilization & productivity;
9. Put in place a never ending cycle for improvement.

Daitari Iron Ore Project is the flagship of OMC’s operations with round the clock operation and total mechanization. The Chrome Ore Beneficiation Plant at Kaliapani is a 100% export oriented unit of OMC which has been adding to OMC’s exchequer with 100% capacity utilization.

OMC decided to have the ISO Certification for Daitari Iron Ore Project and COBP at the outset for these two promising units. The 1994 version had already been outdated and 2000 version of ISO-9001 Certification had already come into being. The obvious choice was ISO 9001:2000 version. 

With the assistance of a local agency, M/s.TQM Consultancy (P) Limited, Bhubaneswar;OMC implemented ISO standard and was certified by M/s.NQAQSR, a Delhi based Certification Agency, recognition by JAS – ANZ.

By the beginning of the New Year-2004, OMC was ISO Certified. With the ISO Certification, OMC emerged as one of the Ist PSUs in the state to be ISO Certified in the 2000 version.

The ISO 14001 envisages Environmental Management System. It is proposed to be taken up in the Ist phase for Daitari and COBP to reiterate OMC’s commitment as an eco-friendly mining company. ISO 9001:2000 standard is also proposed for implementation in other Regional Units of OMC such as Gandhamardan, Barbil & Chrome Zone.