2024 Schedule
ISO 55000 series – What’s New and What has Changed in 2024 Presenter: Salman Zafar
Senior Project Manager, Asset Management, Regional Municipality of Halton
Description:
ISO’s asset management technical committee has recently released six new and updated standards in the ISO 55000 series. New standards cover public policy, people, and data; revised standards include ISO 55000 (principles), ISO 55010 (finance) and most importantly ISO 55001 (requirements). This session will provide an overview of what to expect from these new standards, and how the new ISO 55001 compares to its 2014 predecessor. About the Presenter:
Sal Zafar brings with him over 10+ years of experience in development and implementation of municipal asset management systems and in delivering capacity building programs. Since 2018, Sal is serving as a subject matter expert on the Canadian Mirror Committee to ISO’s Technical Committee on Asset Management (AM) responsible for developing and updating the ISO 55000 family of standards. Sal is currently the Senior Project Manager, AM at Halton Region where he is leading several key initiatives such as delivering the 2025 AM plan update, rolling out a standardized asset criticality framework, and implementing a decision support system. Before Halton, Sal was part of District Municipality of Muskoka’s AM success story as where he demonstrated leadership in building internal staff capacity to adopt best practices in AM and implemented a structured and standardized framework for capturing service levels and risk assessment across the organization. Sal has also worked closely with municipal associations for 8+ years to deliver research projects on current state of AM practice in Ontario, supported annual review of 400+ municipal AM plans to identify gaps and design capacity building initiatives, and led a joint initiative between AMO and FCM in collaboration with AMONTario to provide AM technical assistance to multidisciplinary staff and elected officials in 80+ Ontario municipalities. |