ISO Certification
ISO Certification
What is a ISO Certification?
ISO is the family of standards for quality management system. ISO 9000 is maintained by ISO, the International Organisation for Standardization and is administered by accreditation and certification bodies. The rules are updated, as the requirements motivate changes over time. Some of the requirements in ISO 9001:2008 (which is one of the standards in the ISO 9000 family) include -
A set of procedures that cover all key processes in the business.
Monitoring processes to ensure they are effective.
Keeping adequate records.
Checking output for defects, with appropriate and corrective action where necessary.
Regularly reviewing individual processes and the quality system itself for effectiveness
facilitating continual improvement
A company or organization that has been independently audited and certified to be in conformance with ISO 9001 may publicly state that it is "ISO 9001 certified" or "ISO 9001 registered". Certification to an ISO 9001 standard does not guarantee any quality of end products and services; rather, it certifies that formalized business processes are being applied.
IQM
International Quality Management (IQM) is providing ISO Accredited ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, HACCP, ISO 22000, ISO 13845, ISO/TS -16949, ISO 29990 & ISO 50001 Certification Services from UASL and ASCB (UK). UASL and ASCB (UK) are the independent and impartial Accreditation’s Board from UK.
Certification procedure
In the case of interest for certification of your management system, the procedure is very simple:
Complete an Application for Certification form (AfC)
On the base of AfC we will process project of the Price Offer (PO)
After the acceptation (ratification) of the Price Offer from your side we will prepare a draft of the Contract
After the ratification of the Contract by negotiators this Contract comes into force and it becomes legally binding – Contract is signed for 3 years (the validity of an certificate is also 3 years)
Within the 3 years’ validity of Contract we conduct 1 certification audit and 2 surveillance audits (vide infra)
A process of management system certification has these basic phases:
Phase of audit planning
Assessment of documentation
Pre-certification audit (optional)
Certification audit
Certificate granting and surveillance audits
Phase of audit planning
Phase of an audit planning represents planning of an audit. Chief of auditors nominates a lead auditor, an auditor and a specialist from examination scope. Audit team responds to qualified performed audit.
Assessment of management system documentation
Documentation assessment is performed for the scope of accessory information for planning of a management system certification audit and of monitoring, that there were established basic requirements for proper working of a management system. An auditee is asked to present a quality manual and other reference documentation regarding to standard requirements, according to which the system will have been certified at least 14 days before the audit performance.
Pre-certification audit(optional)
Pre-audit is performed in the location of a customer with the aim of nonconformities elimination, which can exist in a management system of an auditee. The certification audit is performed in the location of a customer and in the individual working places, which are the object of assessment, according to a customer requests scheduled in the contract. The audit process performance has got these phases:
Planning (program) – lead auditor determines the timetable with requests for the attendance of individual authorized persons.
Performance – this stage represents the proper audit performance.
Completion – team of auditors evaluates the audit performance at the final negotiation with the management representatives of the audited company, the team of auditors assesses dates for elimination of recognized nonconformities.
Evaluation – the final document of a certification audit is the Certification Audit Report. A Lead auditor prepares a report; he is also responsible for its correctness and completeness. A lead auditor is assessable to add comments of auditors and specialists, who actively took part in an audit, after the personal consultation with them to the report. Certification granting and surveillance audits
If a director of certification body does not find out any significant facts, which should resist to assignments of a lead auditor established in the certification audit report a director of certification body publishes positive consideration with the consideration of a lead auditor and grants a certificate.
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