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With the growing trade and market demand, the need for ISO certification has been on a constant rise. ISO certificates are not just a proof of your credibility, it also gives an immense boost to your image, and brings immense opportunities for your business. However, many organizations might find the certification process a bit cumbersome, which is not the case. With right direction, you can achieve ISO certificate in a smooth and hassle-free way.
Selecting the type of ISO certification
The first step at achieving the certification is by making yourself aware about the standards that are suitable for your management system. Some of the common standards are given below:
- ISO 9001 for Quality Management System
- ISO 14001 for Environmental Management System
- ISO 41001 for Facility Management - Management System
- ISO 27001 for Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection — Information security management system
- ISO 22000 for Food Safety Management system
- ISO 37001 for Anti Bribery Management System
- ISO 45001 for Occupational Health and Safety Management System
- ISO 50001 for Energy Management System
Choose an ISO Certification Body
Once you have implemented the ISO standard for your management system, you must select a certification body to conduct the audit and certify your management system. ISO just publishes the standards, an external certification body with relevant accreditation is entitled to issue the certificate. One of the most reputed IAS-IAF and UAF accredited certification bodies, SIS Certifications is recognized for its vast pool of expert auditors who analyse your documents comprehensively and award you with the required certificate.
GETTING STARTED WITH THE PROCESS
1. Application Form
Clients are required to fill the essential details of the organization in the application form and share with the marketing team for further review.
Responsibility: Marketing Team
2. Contract Review
Our quality team reviews the client requirement and calculates the feasibility & man-days to be delivered in the Stage I Audit & Stage II audit.
Responsibility: Quality Team
3. Quotation / Agreement to Client
Based upon the contract review, Client are required to sign the quotation and legal agreement with the marketing team.
Responsibility: Marketing Team
4. Invoice Preparation & Sending
Accounts team generates and shares the invoice to the client to collect certification fees.
Responsibility: Accounts Team
5. Stage-I Audit Planning & Confirmation) –
Based upon the Contract review, Planning team plans the audit date by confirming with the client and auditor as well share the audit release to confirm the both. Detailed audit plan is created by Lead auditor and shared with the client.
Responsibility: Planning Team
6. Stage-I Audit & Audit Report Preparation
Assigned audit team reviews the manual & procedure to understand the organization process and verify that organization have required process or not. Audit team also visits the site and verify the scope of the certification. In Stage I audit, audit team actually verifies the preparedness of the organization for Stage II audit. Based upon the evidences, audit team prepares the report and submit it to the operations team of SIS Certifications and provide the audit finding report to client.
Responsibility: Audit Team
7. Audit Set & NC Closure Receiving
During the audit process, SIS operations team shares audit set for filling, signing and stamp by
the client. SIS Operations Team requests the client to submit Audit Set and Closure of the Audit Finding given by the Audit Team to the operations team after the audit.
Responsibility: Operations Team
8. Stage-I Report & NC Closure Review
After the audit, Operations team forward the audit report to the Quality team to review the
report. When audit report is found adequate, Quality recommends the Operations Team to
proceed further with scheduling Stage-II audit for the client.
Responsibility: Quality Team
9. Stage-II Audit Planning & Confirmation
After the successful completion of the Stage I Audit, Planning team plans the audit date by
confirming with the client and auditor as well and share the audit release to confirm the both.
After the sharing the release, Audit Team also provide a detailed audit plan to client. Audit Plan
help the client to prepare themselves for the audit.
Responsibility: Planning Team & Audit Team
10. Stage-II Audit & Audit Report Preparation
Assigned audit team reviews the implementation of the process reviewed in the Stage I and also the Closure status of the findings. Audit team also visits the site and verifies whether, the activities are performed as per the Standard and Organization requirement or not. In Stage II audit, audit team actually, verifies the implementation of the organization. Based upon the evidences, audit team prepares the audit report and submit to the operations team of SIS Certifications and provide the audit finding report to client.
Responsibility: Audit Team
11. Audit Set & NC Closure Receiving
During the audit process, SIS operations team share audit set for filling, signing and stamp by
the client. SIS Operations Team request the client after the audit to submit Audit Set and Closure of the Audit Findings given by the Audit Team to the operations team.
Responsibility: Operations Team
12. Stage-II Report & NC Closure Review
After the audit, Operations team forward the completed audit report including successful closure of NCs raised received from client to the Quality team to review. When audit report is found adequate, Quality recommends the Operations Team to proceed further.
Responsibility: Quality Team
13. Payment Confirmation
Accounts team confirms the Operations team for proceeding further.
Responsibility: Accounts Team
14. Decision Making
Decision is taken by the DM team for the issuance of the Certification after receiving confirmation from Operations and Accounts team.
Responsibility: Decision Making Team
15. Payment Confirmation
After getting the Approval from the DM team, Draft is issued to Client for approval. After
getting the Approval, Operations Team issues the certificate and updates the database.
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