As with the first edition, the down-side was that companies tended to implement its requirements by creating shelf-loads of procedure manuals, and becoming burdened with an ISO bureaucracy.
Ao igual que na primeira edición, o inconveniente foi que as empresas tendían a implementar os seus requisitos mediante a creación dunha morea de manuais de procedementos nos estantes e a carga dunha burocracia ISO.