What is the process to get ISO Certification

Today businesses all over the world have to identify the right working mechanism in order to realise their business goals. To sustain in the long run businesses need to work upon insights that foretell the risks that come along the way while the business is making its way up. In this developing phase identification, assessing and organising such risks becomes important. We at SIS CERTIFICATIONS assist our customers to not only recognize such risks but align their business decisions with the industry standards that make their financial goals to turn into reality.

Recalibrating ISO Certification As A Decisive Parameter

Recent reports published in the public domain have suggested customers to relook into the strategic success of standardisation. The ISO certification, specifically ISO 9001 standard for quality management, implemented in over a million organisations worldwide has received considerable attention in management research. The study conducted reveals the impact of ISO Certification on the financial performance of the organisation. These studies done over a span of a decade proved as evidence that ISO 9001 certification helped companies to improve their revenue.  However, it failed to decrease their costs, improve their overall financial performance or increase their stock market value.

Picking Up the Right ISO Certification Service

When organisations finally decide to implement management systems according to the ISO standards it is important to get it verified from a certification body. But choosing the right certification body is not an easy task. In order to get assurance that an organisation complies with the set of ISO standards needs involvement of a third party for the certification process. So what are those factors that separates an experienced and efficient certification body from others?

Authenticity: Certainly authenticity of the certification body in that particular field of endeavour that a company chooses to get certified i.e Energy Management, is a must. Incongruency in choosing the right certification partner will always lead to precarious results.

Accreditation : ISO Certification is not just a piece of paper it is a licence from a government body that authorises a certification body to verify ISO standards implemented within an organisation. It is a crucial parameter for any individual organisation to check whether their ISO certification provider is accredited from a relevant government body or not. For example accreditation by IAS and IOAS.

Specialisation : Ensure that your company is going with the right ISO certification provider that is experienced in the niche that your company chooses to deliver products and services. Only when you choose the right ISO Certification provider will their auditors give you the necessary insights about the industry.

Time Frame of Certification: A Certification service provider must tell you with clarity about the possibility of your management system, introduced recently, getting verified within a certain time frame if there are time constraints to become verified.

Integrated Audits : If your organisation wants to start with ISO 27701 and plans to add ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards, moving ahead it  is necessary to get a confirmation from your certification body to do an integrated audit. This will save your organisation from exhausting extra penny and spend time to obtain certification from multiple ISO certification providers.

How To Get ISO Certified

Now that your organisation has done the initial journey to get the right ISO Certification Service the next step is to develop and register the production processes they follow. 

Let us see some of the essential steps to get your business ISO-Certified 

1. Create Your management system

●    Prepare a  detailed copy of your business process including core areas.

●    Ensure that your employees get involved in the documentation process. 

●    Evaluate, approve and hand out these documents to individuals who need to assess this information.

2. Implement your system

●    Cross verify whether the processes mentioned in your documentation are followed as it is.

●  Make your employees undergo the right training processes that make them task ready.

● Introduce the right feedback channels that give you regular updates on the efficiency of the processes involved. Ensure it covers corrective actions and preventive actions, inspection, testing, objective and others.

●  Always keep at your tips the measurable data that gives you details about the efficiency of your processes.

●    Be ready to work upon the areas that need improvement.

3. Verify that your system is effective

●    Ensure that management systems undergo the right audit and review processes for aligning them with the ISO standards. Scrutinise and communicate with the resources and prepare sample records accordingly.

●    Recognize and submit strengths and weaknesses of the management system.

●    Take corrective or preventive action as required.

4. Register your system

●    Make the right choice of the auditing body for external registration.

●    Submit your process documentation to the ISO certification provider for getting it verified.

●   Get an external auditor to verify the efficiency of your management system. If there exists a gap between the auditor’s review report and the process, ensure to implement the correction measures instantly.